Forum home› The potting shed
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Mirror Garden Offers

GwenrGwenr Posts: 150
in The potting shed
Has anyone purchased any plants from Mirror Garden Offers, I want to buy a Miscanthus Indian Summer grass, can't find one in any of our garden centres and wondered if members have had an experience ordering with Mirror Garden Offers?
«134567

Posts

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I don't know them. But these guys have lovely outdoor mirrors.
  • Doghouse RileyDoghouse Riley Posts: 347
    Do you mean the newspaper?

    If you do.

    The tabloids often have a tie in for these with one of the major on-line and catalogue suppliers, like Thompson & Morgan, but not always the same one. So they should be reliable.

    I don't buy newspapers any more so I don't see them.
  • GwenrGwenr Posts: 150
    We don't buy newspapers, but I was looking online for Miscanthus Indian Summer grass and there was an offer for them from the Mirror newspaper.
    I've not had any experience buying plants online, only seeds, I was wondering if other people had bought from them.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Personally I wouldn’t buy from a newspaper offer … as has been said, you don’t know who you’re buying from and how reliable they are. I would rather buy from a named supplier. 


    However in my experience the autumn is not a good time to plant grasses … the roots can often rot off in the cold wet winter soil … grasses establish much better if planted when the soil warms up in the late spring, and I’m would think that there will be more suppliers with them in stock in the spring. 




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





  • GwenrGwenr Posts: 150
    Dovefromabove said:
    Personally I wouldn’t buy from a newspaper offer … as has been said, you don’t know who you’re buying from and how reliable they are. I would rather buy from a named supplier. 


    However in my experience the autumn is not a good time to plant grasses … the roots can often rot off in the cold wet winter soil … grasses establish much better if planted when the soil warms up in the late spring, and I’m would think that there will be more suppliers with them in stock in the spring. 



    I'm potting them on at the moment, I can't plant because hubby is bricking around the water feature and I can't get near it to do anything. I've contacted some of the nurseries to ask if they would be getting them in, but I've been told it would have to be a special order and they only get in the most common ones. I have seen them on jparkers and think that's the best route for buying them, just wish they were not so expensive for a tiny little 9cm pot.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I don’t think that’s a bad price for something a bit special to be honest, and they’ll grow … and grow 😊 

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





  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Fire said:
    I don't know them. But these guys have lovely outdoor mirrors.
    Joke?
  • GwenrGwenr Posts: 150
    Dovefromabove said:
    I don’t think that’s a bad price for something a bit special to be honest, and they’ll grow … and grow 😊 
    We bought a Miscanthus Adagio yesterday from a garden centre, all the ornamental grasses had been reduced. This one was a large pot and reduced from £29 to £8.09p lovely plant, although a bit pot bound, but that will sorted and put in a bigger pot. Honestly, they had so many reduced I could have filled the garden with them.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Now that really is a good price! 🎁

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





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Papi Jo said:
    Fire said:
    I don't know them. But these guys have lovely outdoor mirrors.
    Joke?

    No
Sign In or Register to comment.