Plug Plants by Post
From our best value Mini Plug Plant Strips to Mature Garden Ready plants – the choice is yours. All our plug plants are grown in Cumbria.
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Our Ethos
Plug Plants by Post is intended to be a reasonable supplier of mostly plug plants at a reasonable price.
Small scale enables greater flexibility and opportunities for innovation, even with cultivation. It also provides the economies that only small scale can. We believe that products and information are more important than packaging and presentation, so we’re happy to tell you that recycled minimal packaging is used more often than not. More cardboard, less plastic, cultivation guides to pretty flowers are online only and are given more attention than pretty pictures. This all means a more ecological and sustainable service as well as less expensive.
None of this makes us perfect, mistakes happen, when they do please tell us and we’ll do our best to fix them, the trick is to learn from them. Learning is perhaps the greatest pleasure of gardening, though nurturing is a close second – which is why kindness is the root of so much happiness, and gardeners rank highly on the happiness scale. We don’t sell happiness just some of the means to get there, the memes are free.
The pretty plug plants we choose to cultivate and sell are generally tougher and more common varieties, rather than the more exotic and sensitive ones which tend to be more difficult to grow. We believe gardening should be easy as well as healthy and pleasant. And to keep the cost as low as possible we’ve introduced a new ‘Mini Plug Plant Strip‘ which is an easy fit through any letterbox.
Best Sellers
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Echinops Ritro (Globe Thistle)
Hardy Perennials £3.50 – £24.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Eryngium Planum (Sea Holly)
Hardy Perennials £2.50 – £20.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Kniphofia Uvaria (Red Hot Poker, Torch Lily)
Hardy Perennials £3.50 – £24.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Grow and Care
We provide mature plug plants. This means you can usually plant these plugs straight in your garden if you wish. Because we value plant health over appearance they often arrive looking worse for wear, having leaves cut back to maintain plant health and roots bursting to get out of the plug trays, not to mention being stuck in packaging for up to a week. Fear not, the most important parts of TLC are patience and preparation. We patiently prepare the plants while you prepare the location and patience.
Hardiness Zones Explained
This site uses USDA hardiness zones which are the most commonly used. They range from 1 which is very cold (-50 to -60 °F -50 to -45°C+/-) to 13 which is almost tropical (60 to 70°F 15 to 20°C+/-) . The UK falls between zone 6 in the central mountains of Scotland (-23 to -18°C+/-) to zone 9 ( -7 to -1°C +/-) in coastal areas. Much of the rest of the Scottish Highlands likes in zone 7, with the rest of the UK mainly in zone 8.
For a fuller explanation, and an interactive map see Plant Maps. The RHS uses a simpler zonal system, which runs the opposite way, ranging from H1A (15 to 20°C) greenhouses to H7 (-25 to -20°C) for a fuller explanation of this please see https://www.gardensillustrated.com