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  Kieran Ray September 15, 2010 at 8:39pm

  I will only buy the best quality plants. if one of may favored nurseries doesn't have a good quality specimen of what I want I will get them to order nice new decent stuff in.
  
  No second rate anything in my jobs.
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  Jackson's Landscape Design September 15, 2010 at 8:40pm

  And quality is exactly what my clients require, would it be benefcial to you, my clients and my business if an order came from, lets say Cornwall or Devon.?
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  T & S Plants September 15, 2010 at 8:57pm

  Based in West Dorset, Devon or Cornwall are a stones throw away, with our new network of deliveries recently made available to us???
  
  Where as Newton Abbott is around 2 hours drive having done it last month. A well known liner Grower that we are working very closely with, sorry can't tell you???
  
  Too many question marks?
  
  
  
  Jackson's Landscape Design said:

  And quality is exactly what my clients require, would it be benefcial to you, my clients and my business if an order came from, lets say Cornwall or Devon.?
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  Rachel Sobiechowski September 26, 2010 at 5:39pm

  I thought the difference is in the actual "finished product" rather than the plant?
  We buy both Amenity plants and garden centre ready.
  The garden centre ready plants come with colour picture labels, the pots are cleaned and have our retail prices on them, and the pots are freshly topdressed. So all we have to do is put them on our plant staging.
  Amenity plants come straight from the nursery, so the pots are always dirty, there may be weeds or lichens in the top of the plant pot, & they don't have any labels. which means we have to do a lot more work to them before they are ready to go sale at our garden centre.
  We just simply refuse any plants that are not up to standard!
  Rachel
  PS Your "roundabout" comment made me laugh, I accidently called a Mahonia a "car park plant" to one of our customers, needless to say they was not happy about me calling their garden a car park!
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  Jason Felstead September 26, 2010 at 7:19pm

  I always thought that Amenity plants or Landscapers plants were basically plants that could take alot of abuse, poloution and were hardey and didnt need much maintenance. These are normally ordered in by local authorities / landscape firms and had nothing to do with quality.
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  T & S Plants September 27, 2010 at 6:27pm

  So, both Rachel and Jason have a different view on Amenity Plants.
  
  One is straight from the Nursery, not cleaned etc, the other is plants that can take lots of abuse, and nothing to do with quality.
  
  I know what I think, but what do you think?
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  Jason Felstead September 27, 2010 at 6:40pm

  Is there a prize :) lol
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  T & S Plants September 27, 2010 at 6:44pm

  Yes Jason,
  
  The winner gets to write a 10 page leaflet on Amenity Plants
  
  Good Luck!!!
  
  Jason Felstead said:

  Is there a prize :) lol
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  Jason Felstead September 27, 2010 at 6:49pm

  Cool
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  Rachel Sobiechowski September 27, 2010 at 8:27pm

  I also agree with Jason, in that I tend to think of amenity plants as a selection of "tough" mainstream plants and also hedging. But these mainstream plants are still top sellers in garden centres because they are tried and tested, and a good quality grower is a good quality grower no matter what "tag" they have placed on them. Therefore the difference to me is in the "packaging & presentation".
  
  T & S Plants said:

  So, both Rachel and Jason have a different view on Amenity Plants.
  
  One is straight from the Nursery, not cleaned etc, the other is plants that can take lots of abuse, and nothing to do with quality.
  
  I know what I think, but what do you think?