A great find - shame I dont live there anymore
By paulr999
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Its been many years since I emigrated to England from Central Scotland and long before I was interested in the garden (unless it was a beer garden). So it was strange to be struggling to find a decent garden centre in an area I grew up in trying to buy some stuff for my mothers garden.
It was looking like a waste of time trying to find simple items like a purple Phlox after stopping off at several places with no success until I found an oasis in the desert.
Just a few miles out of Broxburn is a fantastic place called Binny Plants where I not only managed to find the basic perennials for my mother that were proving elusive elsewhere, but also managed to find 4 plants that were on my list following a visit to Hidcote Manor that were proving hard to find.
What a result !! – loads of choice, extremely helpful staff, good prices and the wonderful sight of over 150 (their claim) different types of Peony in bloom.
They can be found here : http://www.binnyplants.com/index.asp and do mail order too.
29 Jun, 2010
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It's nice to find something unusual. I'm glad you found somewhere to supply them to you.
30 Jun, 2010
It's so good to find what you want for a change paul ... I did that this year with a Bacopa ... I had it in white but couldn't track down a coloured one for ages. Good for you for giving your GC a plug!
30 Jun, 2010
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I am a great fan of Binny Plants, and am able to visit easily. Like many private nurseries, they carry plant varieties impossible to find in GCs.
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