I got two blackthorn for a quid from there a couple or three years ago, the healthy looking one died quite suddenly but the sickly one is now six feet tall. It was covered in several pairs of copulating ladybirds in May, which made me wonder why are they getting it in mygarden, when I wasn't, and I'm higher up the food chain, lousy swining insects having all the luck, and it being a sloe tree seemed inappropriate, as they were right at it, and brazenly laughing at me.