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Where to buy tropicals

PlyinformPlyinform Posts: 5
in Plants

I wanted to buy these plants

Can anyone recommend an excellent online nursery / store to buy them from ?

Hardy Phoenix Palm Trees ( preferable 80+cm Tall )

ITALIAN CYPRESS TREES ( preferably 1.2+M TALL )

Salix 'Flamingo' standard ( preferably 90+cm tall )

Musa basjoo Hardy Banana (preferably 1+m Tall )

Musella lasiocarpa Chinese Hardy Banana Plant
(preferably 50+cm Tall )

Thanks


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  • Mrs-B3-Southampton,-HantsMrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants Posts: 732
    I saw Salix in our local Haskins garden centre in Southampton today. You would have to check their website to see if they're doing deliveries.
    Southampton 
  • mrtjformanmrtjforman Posts: 331
    Wish I had a tropical climate with 26 minimum temps in Winter for those plants to survive at mine.

    Alas I live in the UK and don't own a safari park just yet. Gl with your project Plyinform
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @mrtjforman I have Musa basjoo growing happily in my garden all year round. The chap who gave me it has a jungle of them and struggles to contain the numbers resorting to mowing them down, he's never protected them in 20 years. We are not far from York so fairly northerly
  • mrtjformanmrtjforman Posts: 331
    thx @Wilderbeast, I didn't really know they could survive ok here but theysound like jungle monsters ;)
  • PlyinformPlyinform Posts: 5
    Maybe I'm in the wrong forum for asking this question.. Feel free to tell me if I should post it somewhere else.. Cheers
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Can't have ferns or tropical plants here either - except maybe in spring and autumn.  Too hot and dry in the summer, too cold and dry in the winter!!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • PlyinformPlyinform Posts: 5
    We are in Cheshire in the UK and generally don't get extremes. We may get Frost occasionally and summers may reach 30 but these are rare occurances
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I find Urban Jungle very good. 
    I’ve not used their online shop as they’re local to me,  but Ive heard others speak highly of them


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Always worth trying the RHS plant finder that will give you a number of online sellers for each plant https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/search-form
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    Palm exotics have always supplied top quality plants online service has always been good 
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