Not so special offer

[veggiechicken]

Our hand-selected collection is perfect for creating a stunning summer display whether your garden is big or small. Bulk up beds, plug gaps in borders, and fill your patio pots with fabulous colour and long lasting structure. Our Bumper Summer Collection contains a generous selection of hardy shrubs, annuals and perennials that will brighten your garden from summer through to autumn.

Your collection comprises of 20 jumbo plugs including: 3 x Coleus Canina 'Scardy Cat', 2 x Begonia 'Buffey', 2 x Busy Lizzie 'Double White', 2 x Thunbergia alata 'Arizona Rose Sensation', 2 x Thunbergia alata 'Arizona Pink Beauty', 2 x Thunbergia alata 'Arizona White Halo', 1 x Thunbergia alata 'Arizona Glow', 1 x Thunbergia alata 'Arizona Terracotta' 1 x Celosia Kellos Atomic, 1 x Helenium 'Fuego', 1 x Helenium 'Salsa', 1 x Gaillardia 'Spintop Red' & 1 x Gaillardia 'Spintop Yellow Touch'.


20 jumbo plug plants �49.28 NOW �9 - SAVE �40.28 - THAT'S ONLY 45p PER PLANT

[Snoop Puss]

Goodness. You don't need to be able to do calculus to see that's not right!

Edited to add: I've just looked at the plants. Not sure I like the sound of Scardy Cat.

[veggiechicken]

I'm not going to name the retailer (you can guess!) but I have to question their advertising.

First, I may be mistaken but I don't see any "shrubs" in the offer.

Mostly, my gripe is with the "original price" they put on these "jumbo plugs". 20 for �49.28 - that's nearly �2.50 a plug.
Apparently, a Jumbo plug is 5-11 cms. Being naturally suspicious, I'm guessing that the 11cms ones will be the Thunbergias - aka Black eyed Susan climbers.

They probably wouldn't be sent out on time either.

[Thelma Sanders]

I succumbed to some of their fuchsias earlier this year, and was really surprised by how small their 'jumbo' plugs are when they arrived.
Luckily they have now grown enough in the greenhouse, but it would have been difficult to plant them direct into a basket, as they suggested in the blurb

Never again....

[chillithyme]

I stick to buying plants that I can see before buying them. I once ordered begonia plugs from an online company, they should have been called super mini plugs because I needed a magnifying glass to see them, and they were expensive too considering the plants were invisible

[Gillykat]

I succumbed to some of their fuchsias earlier this year, and was really surprised by how small their 'jumbo' plugs are when they arrived.
Luckily they have now grown enough in the greenhouse, but it would have been difficult to plant them direct into a basket, as they suggested in the blurb

Never again....

I got some Pink Fizz fuchsia that were on special offer too and they arrived ok.....but of the ten three were baldy twigs!!! Bit peeved I was!!! I potted the remaining seven up and they have grown on well. In future if i cannot grow it from seed myself or just want to treat myself to summik special I'll stick to Sarah Raven as I've always found her plugs to be massive and arrive in immaculate condition!

[greenishfing]

I am pretty sure I can guess at the company . I believe I've had a "rant" about them and their customer service in the past. How do they keep getting away with it?

[Ocelot]

I've had coleus caninus 'scardey cat' before - it's a scented, very tender plant, that's meant to deter cats (despite its name being 'caninus'). In practice it doesn't.