Plant Prices

galaxy12

Wanted to know if anyone used "theirishgardener" or gardens4you for plants recently ? There seems to be a significant difference in prices for popular plants - in nurseries and on planting websites . The price for salvias range between 2.50 to 7.50 / pot and the pots are mostly 2 ltrs pot plants.

billyhead

Be careful shopping online. I ordered a Camelia for my Mum before and all I got was a snip of one. It was a year ago and it hasn't grown since. The pictures online were deceiving.

I’ve had a few negative experiences with Gardens4u, I don’t know if that is across the board with other people.

caherhurely nursery was mentioned here a year or 2 ago and I checked their website. Irish owned, organic and all plants €5. They say their plants are very hardy in Irish weather due to the outdoor location of their nursery on some mountainside that I can’t remember.

I think they mainly deal in perennials. I bought a lot of stock off them last year, very pleased with them!

Where would you go wrong with hardy, Irish grown organic plants for a fiver!

galaxy12

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The thing is that with I have a fairly large list of small perennials and adding it all up suddenly becomes a large amount .Thanks for the info on caherhurely , I must check them .

I had the same issue last year, I was doing the front drive. I sowed what I could from seed(took 2 years from seed to final position) but I would say I had 1/3 of the stock I needed. I bought the rest from Caherhurely but only to bring the stock to about 50% as I couldn’t afford such a lot of plants. So at the end of the season I split the larger perennials in half and replanted and will do the same this year. Saves a fortune but takes a little longer to get the results.

Nell B

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I can add that Caherhurley are well worth buying from. Very pleased with my purchases from them