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Garden Centre Recommendations

I've searched high and low and can't find a post that was made last year with garden centre recommendations (not online) there were a few mentioned for the north east area. Can anyone remember the thread? Or have any favourite centres in the north east area (excluding Dobbies and Wyevale) they can recommend

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016

    I can't help with the specifics, but most garden centres now seem to be either Wyevale or Dobbies.  There is also Blue Diamond which from my experience seem to do a much better job of managing their plants.

    If you can find an independent GC you are probably going to get better quality.

  • Thanks KT, ended up going to an independent one and spending an absolute fortune image

  • Aster2Aster2 Posts: 629

    Tell me about that... have just come back from a local independent GC with a rhododendron and a huge pot for it, neither of which I'd had any intention of buying!

  • image But they're just SO pretty you can't help but buy them! Then of course you need a pot if your natural soil Ph isn't suitable!! I've become really good at justifying my spends, hah!

  • Aster2Aster2 Posts: 629

    HydrangeaKate, that was my reasoning too! :D I feel I've been very good for buying only one of the many gorgeous rhododendrons they had on display...

  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444

    I have a choice between a wyevale or a Haskins. The Haskins is huge and i could spend a day in there quite easily just looking at plants but it is very expensive so I try not to go there often. I use the wyevale for most things and get bedding plant from a school plant sale which is held each year. This year it starts on the 15/5 and runs for 2 weeks. In that time the will raise quite a bit for school funds and probably sell a couple of thousand bedding plants all at prices comparable to supermarkets and the diy sheds.

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