Buying PLANTS ONLINE ?? 🌴🤔 WATCH This FIRST ! My TOP TIPS for buying plants 🌴

[@richf_tropical_garden_projects]

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[@essexhognose1808]

It is a little hit and miss, but as you mentioned often the only way to obtain a specific plant at times

[@richf_tropical_garden_projects]

@@essexhognose1808 id agree ive had some great stuff and a few ones that have struggled, i think it can depend as well on what your buying from seeds to large plants 🤔

[@TropicalDanUK]

Certainly wirh tropical style gardening you can rarely just go into a garden centre and pick up these kinds of plants - unless you live near a specialist one. If its a UK seller and they are UK grown then lilely online is pretty good option. If the plants have been force grown in a poly tunnel in Italy then they may not be hardy and often are narrow trunked and stretched etc. Definitely a bit of a minefield. Did i spot a Washingtonia in your garden? If so is that staying out? Pool is looking cool - serious man hours going into that!

[@richf_tropical_garden_projects]

thanks for watching 👊😎 i certainly agree with that, luckily over the past few years it seems to be getting more common to see the more common tropicals in local stores but yes alot of the more exotic stuff is only online so it can be a real mine feild! i think as long as you know what to expect when buying you should be ok 🤔🤷‍♂️ i have had to buy alot online this year and 90% has been spot on so cant complain too much! haha thanks been a real long project, but still ongoing on the channel! some serious dirt came out of that hole 😂😂🤦‍♂️

[@richf_tropical_garden_projects]

yes the washingtonia is staying out with minimal protection got it this year on a really good deal so gonna try it outside as its a pretty protected area its in, but going to be lucky if it gets through without issue , hoping it only defoliates and makes it through, another garden expirement this year along with the blue fern!

[@TropicalDanUK]

@@richf_tropical_garden_projects I watch with anticipation as I really like washies but I lost two in the winter of Dec 2022 - which granted was a bad one vs previous years. They were supermarket bought small and cheap so probably no hardiness at all. I'm 55 degrees north on the west coast so it doesn't get super cold but was enough to kill a lot of my plants that year.

[@richf_tropical_garden_projects]

@@TropicalDanUK ive got my fingers crossed as well, i think ill probably fleece on the coldest nights if we go below -5 or so but thinking of just some straw around the base 🤔 tbh i think 2022 it was the wet that really killed alot 🤔 i lost a few small washies that year but one clump survived up against a fence in a raised bed with straw ...and it barely survived 😂🤦‍♂️