Eriobotrya japonica

[marie06]

Hi Nigel, I looked on Urban jungle, they wanted £64 if I remember rightly, and can't find it listed at Todds Botanicals. I'll have a look on Amulree now.

Ok, it's £30 for a 10L plant there. Looked on Todds again and still can't find it.

[kata]

I just have to say to Steve,

The garden looks awesome!!

I love the shapes.

[marie06]

Steve - your garden is gorgeous, and so NEAT! Put's mine to shame.

[Nigel Fear]

Hi Nigel, I looked on Urban jungle, they wanted £64 if I remember rightly, and can't find it listed at Todds Botanicals. I'll have a look on Amulree now.

Ok, it's £30 for a 10L plant there. Looked on Todds again and still can't find it.

They have more in their nursery than whats on line Marie, though plus there's a lot of 20% discounts coming up in the spring at some of the exotic nurseries.

The 10L price don't sound bad though, and the growth rate on one of these is pretty reasonable.

[collins99]

Marie, i got one of these last year at about this time from easy tropicals on ebay , good value too as it was 6 foot in the pot for about £25 , it has seen of this winter fine showing no sidns of distress at the -10.1 i got up here .

[themes]

got a small one from akamba in april and it looks fine. No damage and some new leaves in october. Nick got the same plant from Akamba...Not collins Nicks but Nick Nick. (one of you needs to change your name!) . hows yours doing Nick?

[marie06]

Nick, I didn't know Easy Tropicals have an ebay shop. I'll have a look now.

Found them, but they don't have anything for sale at the moment.

[bev]

they had about 40 of them when i was at todds last summer, worth a phonecall. they sometimes look a bit spindley when young but mine is starting to fill out and branch more now it's in the ground.


cheers


lee

[Simba]

I made a visit to Todds last weekend and they still have loads of them for sale, looked totally unfussed about the winter that they had been exposed to

Just like the one I planted last year, which is looking great.

T

[Adrian]

How has yours done Martin? (if youre looking in)

[weve]

Quite a fan of this plant. Got a small 'bushy' one last spring and its done really well since. Seems very hardy,with no protection or damage and its already started putting on new growth.
cheers

Soon after planting (spring 2009)

[Conifers]

I'd love to get one of these. I've been trawling through the websites, but for some reason unknown to me, my yahoo and google wont filter out foreign sites so it's taking ages. Has anyone seen any at a good price, as you did last year?

Try a search string like this (copy'n'paste the whole line into google):

buy Eriobotyra site:.uk

[marie06]

Hi Conifers, thanks for the suggestion, which I just tried. Only got 2 results though

[Simba]

Quite a fan of this plant.

Me too.

I love the look of them, with their elongated leaf they are very exotic, and they seem to be as hard as nails..
Quite an underrated plant in my opinion.

[marie06]

I was just about to order one from Easy Tropicals, than noticed their description says 'not limey' soil.

As I garden over chalk, does anyone know if this is right? I'll be sick if it is.