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The best one nearby is probably The Secret Garden in Crystal Palace. There's a small one on Landsdowne Hill, West Norwood, too. Otherwise it's B&Q on Old Kent Road, though I order online instead from Crocus or Beth Chatto - which can work out a fair amount more expensive, but they have a much better range of plants.

Mattsoper Wrote:

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I order online

> instead from Crocus or Beth Chatto - which can

> work out a fair amount more expensive, but they

> have a much better range of plants.


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Crocus are excellent - very wide choice, the plants arrive very well packaged and in good condition, and the customer service is excellent too.


They are not cheap, but they are worth the money in my opinion. They've got a sale on at the moment:


http://www.crocus.co.uk/


I didn't know Beth Chatto did online sales, but I've been to her garden/nursery and the plants on sale there were very good too.

Sue Wrote:

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> Mattsoper Wrote:

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> -----

> I order online

> > instead from Crocus or Beth Chatto - which can

> > work out a fair amount more expensive, but they

> > have a much better range of plants.

>

> xxxxxxx

>

> Crocus are excellent - very wide choice, the

> plants arrive very well packaged and in good

> condition, and the customer service is excellent

> too.

>

> They are not cheap, but they are worth the money

> in my opinion. They've got a sale on at the

> moment:

>

> http://www.crocus.co.uk/

>

> I didn't know Beth Chatto did online sales, but

> I've been to her garden/nursery and the plants on

> sale there were very good too.



Amazing - so many people on EDF bemoaning the loss of greengrocers, garden centres, yet at the same time happy to buy online!

When it comes to plants you can't expect most garden centres to stock everything as that requires a vast amount of space that only the out-of-town, online suppliers can hope to accommodate. I used to buy what I could from Dulwich Garden Centre and then get the more specialist stuff online, though I now have a longer list of alternatives thanks to the recommendations on this thread. Good to have local shops as well as online stores, of course - and it's perfectly reasonable to use both without being a hypocrite.

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