Garden centre or nursery?
Which do you prefer? And why? And how would you define the difference between them?
Garden centre or nursery? 26 votes
Nurseries all the time
11%
3 votes
I prefer a garden centre
11%
3 votes
A mix of both
53%
14 votes
Neither, I buy online mostly.
23%
6 votes
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eg. Dahlia tubers, my local GC stocks 6-10 varieties, the on line seller I use has about 100.
Cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
She knows she's the chocolate girl
Cause she's broken up and swallowed
And wrapped in bits of silver
My rarer succulents come from online nurseries which specialise in them.
Other local nurseries may have more choice for perennials and shrubs and no high carriage costs to the Isle of Wight!
Supermarkets/B&Q etc can be great for bog standard stuff and cheap too.All my clematis were bought for between £1-£2.50.
It depends where I am,what I want and the quality of the plants.
My local garden centre is a Wyevale which is completely useless but there is another one about 5 miles away which has as much better range. It used to be independent and had an enormous range but was taken over by Blue Diamond a couple of years ago and unfortunately has much less choice these days.
I do shop online a lot as well.