Mail Garden Shop Reviews ?

Has anyone bought plug plants from The Daily Mail garden shop ? How did you rate them?
I think a lot of these sites are J Parkers with a different web shop front ,but the Daily Mail site is free P and P .
http://www.mailgardenshop.co.uk/

TIA

 

H

It is J parkers just by the variety they are selling its the same ones , have you compared the prices as even with P&P FREE they may be more overall

Spruce

 

Due to my Petunia Wave from seed success getting worse year by year


For easy wave Petunia Plugs
Daily Mail
33 plugs £12.99 free P and P £0.39 per plug
J Parkers
33 plugs £12.99 + £3.99 P and P £0.51 per plug
T and M
36 plugs £12.99 free P and P this weekend thanks Loofah! £0.36 per plug
Tand M also add on sales are , 10 Begonia tubers for £2.99 , I presume these will store for a year ?

 

Tand M also add on sales are , 10 Begonia tubers for £2.99 , I presume these will store for a year ?

Hi H

Am I reading with the begonia tubers that you dont want to grow them till later in the year , as you will need to plant them now as they wont keep or maybe I have just read it wrong?

Spruce

 

I have bought lots of plants from most of them over the years - especially if there are decent offers - the plugs do tend to be smaller (compared to those I grow myself now from seed) but generally healthy - and if any are bad quality they do replace. The best results I had were the spring flowering prims etc - can be potted up and overwintered successfully.

But I cannot resist getting something from them I am waiting for trailing begonia seedlings (which will be small tubers next year I think) and chrysanthemums - due for delivery Early-Mid April - next year I will try sowing begonias though - but still love browsing the sites/catalogues.

S

 

Spruce , I was contemplating trying to store them for a year. But I'll plant them up now, later in April. That is when I can eventually move some trays into the GH to make some room !
I'll order the petunia wave union jack plugs on T and M, with the begonia tubers today.

 

I did read right! , yes plant them up soon otherwise they can dry out , or if til the end of the month keep they cool no heat.

Spruce