Plug Plants - best supplier

Jake'sGran

I have never bought plug plants but fancy using them this year for hanging basket and tubs.

I have just been looking at a Jersey website - something like "Bloomingplants" which looked good (free postage).

However, I would be interested in the favourite suppliers used by the gardeners on this forum.

trudiha

I'm not really in a position to say that they're the best, as I've only bought plug plants from one other place, but Jersey Plants Direct are very good. So far, everything has turned up alive and on time.

sickasachip13

I had some excellent ones from ebay last year. Might be worth looking.

atticgirl2003

I got some plug plants from Tesc yesterday.
They had just been reduced and I could not resist.

What should I do with them now, and best place to buy trays and compost which I think I will need.
I have them on kitchen window sill at the moment.

Money_maker

I ordered from Jersey Plants Direct last night. Needed some geranium, impatiens and begonias. Compared with suttons and thompson and morgan. Ended up with Jersey Plants as they do the bigger garden ready plants at reasonable prices - on a comparison with the other two suppliers. I don't mind teeny plugs but my dad likes bigger plants. There's a really big fat cashback on Topcashback - I got over 10% which is already confirmed.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

The big plugs are very good - have seen my mother use them and they are very sturdy plants.

However, I tend to pick up the sorry looking micro plugs that are reduced in the garden centre to about 50p usually. Not had a bad one yet.

Mind you, I also picked up 2 pots that allegedly contained strawberry plants in them for 20p each just before the new ones came in about 3 weeks ago. I suppose they were the last of the summer's ones cut back, but they looked like 2 little bits of garden rubbish had been caught in the ground.

10 days on the windowsill and then stuck them out in a hanging basket - they've been out at the garden centre all winter, so must be tough.

They're growing quite happily already.

Orange_King

Received 2 lots of plugs from Jersey in the past week. The first lot (petunias) weren't bad for the money but the 2nd lot arrived minced. Not saying it was the company but the plants were battered in transit - at least 50% were detached from their roots in the plastic container.

Should Jersy plants offer a replacement or refund?

sirbrainy

Orange_King wrote: »

Received 2 lots of plugs from Jersey in the past week. The first lot (petunias) weren't bad for the money but the 2nd lot arrived minced. Not saying it was the company but the plants were battered in transit - at least 50% were detached from their roots in the plastic container.

Should Jersy plants offer a replacement or refund?

I'm sure they would offer a solution eg a replacement - it must happen quite often that they get damaged in transit.

I've now had 2 lots of plug plants - both geraniums ;-)

Jersey Plants Direct - all arrived fine but packaging could have been tighter, luckily posties were sensible.

T&M - all perfect good packaging.

All the geraniums from both were healthy.

CandyB101_2

I've just bought some plug plants from Tesco's ..... should of been £3.00 for 24, but were reduced to £1.50 ...... and all very healthy
Many varieties to choose from.

Jake'sGran

atticgirl2003 wrote: »

I got some plug plants from Tesc yesterday.
They had just been reduced and I could not resist.

What should I do with them now, and best place to buy trays and compost which I think I will need.
I have them on kitchen window sill at the moment.

Depends what they are; you didn't say.

atticgirl2003

Jake'sGran wrote: »

Depends what they are; you didn't say.

24 Trailing Lobelia
24 Mixed Begonias
15 Geraniums Bouquet Mix

Sorry I did not think to mention what they were.