Toby buckland website

 Toby Buckland has set up a new website

  www.tobybuckland.com,


he is selling bare-root perennials and roses from November to February
and container-grown plants all year round.

Presumably this means they will be cheaper? Though how they will travel
is a bit of a wonder!

He also sells other plants from this site but although we used to buy
stuff like this I am not sure we would have travelled miles to get the
plants and i don't remember there being much mail order so what
advantages would there be?

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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

 
This was the normal wat to buy plants up untill the 70's and a great
number are still sold this way, think Roses, Fruit trees and bushes.
They were sent by rail and delivered to you mostly within 2 or 3 days
of being sent, sometimes within a day. probably a better service than
today as they were handled much more kindly.
Today if I buy Chrysanth cuttings they will probably be lifted from
the propagating bench and sent virtualy bare rooted, no problems
spending 3 or 4 days in transit in the spring or early summer, so
trees, shrubs and perenial plants sent bare rooted over the winter
when they are dormant will have no problems what so ever, if packed
properly.
David Hill

 
Having just looked at his websiteI do wonder what size the plants
supplied will be as he is charging top price for what I have looked
at.
My question will be "Is he buying in from Holland and just selling
on?"
David

 

He's going to be running the nursery out of Powderham Castle but I have
no idea if he's been raising things there with a view to starting that
up. It's mail order only, I believe.  Finding out the size of plants is
often problematic. We say on our web site that most things are in 2
litre pots but a lot of places give no idea. I know I ordered a
supposedly two year old grapevine from one place and this tiny wispy
thing arrived that had to be nursed on for a couple of years before it
could be planted into the border of a greenhouse! It was a just-rooted
cutting and we were very annoyed and frankly, rather disgusted.  But he
does say that he can get x 2 litre pots into a box, so I think the
plants must be a reasonable size. I think he is using Parcelforce and I
don't know what their size or weight restrictions are.  I know our
carriers only go up to 1 metre and after that, it goes into freight
costs which are much higher.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

 

We sell bare root hedging whips, fruit bushes, stuff like that, in
autumn.  It was the norm for many people to do their plant buying in
autumn when plants were dormant and could be dug up safely.  Quite a
lot of people like to plant e.g. hedges in autumn when the ground is
still warm enough for things to get settled in and for nature to water
them (usually!) And because they're whips and haven't been potted on
and taken up time, compost, pots, space, yes, they're usually cheaper
than a well-established shrub or tree in containers.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon