New Plants off Ebay

When i 1st joind the Forum i was reading a thred and Dim said to some 1 look on ebay for plants and shrubs they are a lot cheeper then Garden centers

Dug another border this time behind the Folly bought a couple of plants well shrubs i think??

spotted it on ebay and it took my fancy the plant it self is called
Cordyline Australis Purpura Ever Green Cabbage Palm

it was only £5 + £3.49p postage bought on monday here today
the Garden center by us charges around £12.50/£15 well chuffd

Nice 1 Dim

ive also orderd the king fern

1 Question is this plant ok to put in the border?? kind regards Nick

 

I got ALL my seeds from one guy on ebay, getting 90/95% germination from them, most of his seeds cost £0.99 with only one P&P im well happy with him, post is fast, only problem i find is not instructions on the packet, but he duz them on line so you can look there, but it keeps the cost down, and you get LOADS of seeds, enough got 4 seasons at least and he is DEFRA registered as well

 

Nick what`s the minus temperature you get around your area , the
Cordyline Australis Purpura (if is the one in the picture) it`s only hardy to -5.... if it`s small don`t plant it yet , repot and give protection for the next few year .....seen some really big one around London but never around my aerea , my GF bough me one last year and died in February while I was away, the hardest one is the cordyline australis green (the gabbage palm) and even if can handle -10 , they still get lots of damage.

 

If you've had good service (well, or bad for that matter) its fine to name the person / company here; we'd all like to use reliable suppliers

Or you could post it in the "Retailer Feedback" forum:
http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/forums/retailer-feedback.49/

 

Ok will do, hes on ebay and sold over 114,000, the bad feedback he has is mainly complaints about the packets he sends them in (the seeds)

premier_seeds_direct

And can be found here

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/premierseedsdirect/pages/packaging-and-labelling-standards

 

Blimey Sal your on the Ball. It is exactly like the one in the. Pic
I tryd to up load a pic but couldn't for some reason But on the listing on eBay said known as the cabbage palm but it is burgundy in colour redish so Don't know?? Thanks for that ile keep it in the house it did say hardy on advert

 

put in a big pot and you can plant the pot in the soil for summer , it is hardy but just to -5 , heavy frost and long cold spell will kill it ......give few years and then plant in a favorite part of the garden......the purple cordyline is pretty common ...b7q and homebase are selling them

 

Thanks Sal job for the week end for me to pot it up then

 

I can vouch for these as well and so far seem to be getting a very high germination rate,my seeds came in small plastic sealed bags so might be a problem if only using a few each year with out redoing the packaging in foil,but at the price might just aswell use what you want and pass the rest on to mates.

 

I too have been using premier seeds on Ebay and have had great results from them. Cheap as chips as well, with reference to the packaging i have used what i want this year and brought some money envelopes from Wilkinsons to store them in, they cost lest than a quid for 50.

 

Think I've bought from Premier Seeds before.

I get my bareroot plants for my sisters' gardens off this chap;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-Purple-...eedsBulbs_JN&hash=item27c59c8f10#ht_500wt_949

they never seem to go more than about £1.50.. and last year they grew quite large

 

I've brought from these as well. This year I've used these
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/nutsncones
Around 90 95% germination rate, apart from the black coleus but I've never had any success with these anyway

 

I've bought from Just Seeds. The service has been fine, they did not all arrive at once but I got a free packet to compensate for the delay. The germination has not been brilliant so far but, TBH, I think I'm jinxed this year, I'm not paying the seeds/plants enough attention as there is so much else going on. (Laying new paths)

I have bought brugmansias from olwenolwen, smalfa0-1 and PeterTopping24 and they have all been very good.