Where to buy garden plants online from roses to trees, plus potato grow bags

(Image credit: B&Q)

published 12 May 2020

It’s good news that garden centres are allowed to reopen with Dobbies leading the way. However those concerned about huge queues and social distancing mishaps can still opt to buy garden plants online.

For while the world may be a little topsy turvy right now, one thing cannot be changed: spring is here, summer is a-coming, and gardens will be getting a lot of use. The same as every year, then, but more so..

So we've got this round-up of the best garden plant sellers online, with everything from shrubs to cyclamen, perennials to peonies, bamboo to… bushes. Lots of garden plants, basically. Do you want house plants? Then you are out of luck, friend.

• Shop garden plant bundles at B&Q – they've got everything from root wrap roses to fruit trees in pots and herbaceous perennials

• Shop for roses at Homebase – most garden plants at Homebase are not currently available but, for some reason, roses are. Homebase also has 20% off garden furniture right now

We've listed the big garden centres here, up top, as they are the brands people are gravitating towards now, but there are garden specialists with way more impressive stocks of garden plants of all kinds, so read on…

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More great places to buy garden plants online

Thompson Morgan – a huge range available. 'Refer a friend and get 20% off'
Crocus– 20% off peonies!
Suttons – as used by the Queen, no less. 'Fast track' delivery of key seeds!
Dobies – humungous selection for home delivery
Amazon – yes, Amazon does sell plants. Thompson Morgan retails through it, too
Blooming Direct – 'Up to 14 days for delivery', so maybe more one for the May Day bank holiday
Direct Plants eBay store – established since 2006, now selling shrubs via eBay, with dispatch every 5-10 days
Please note that Waitrose Garden and the Royal Horticultural Society have been so inundated with orders that they have had to 'pause' operations

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Duncan is the former lifestyle editor of T3 and has been writing about tech for almost 15 years. He has covered everything from smartphones to headphones, TV to AC and air fryers to the movies of James Bond and obscure anime. His current brief is everything to do with the home and kitchen, which is good because he is an excellent cook, if he says so himself. He also covers cycling and ebikes – like over-using italics, this is another passion of his. In his long and varied lifestyle-tech career he is one of the few people to have been a fitness editor despite being unfit and a cars editor for not one but two websites, despite being unable to drive. He also has about 400 vacuum cleaners, and is possibly the UK's leading expert on cordless vacuum cleaners, despite being decidedly messy. A cricket fan for over 30 years, he also recently become T3's cricket editor, writing about how to stream obscure T20 tournaments, and turning out some typically no-nonsense opinions on the world's top teams and players.

Before T3, Duncan was a music and film reviewer, worked for a magazine about gambling that employed a surprisingly large number of convicted criminals, and then a magazine called Bizarre that was essentially like a cross between Reddit and DeviantArt, before the invention of the internet. There was also a lengthy period where he essentially wrote all of T3 magazine every month for about 3 years.

A broadcaster, raconteur and public speaker, Duncan used to be on telly loads, but an unfortunate incident put a stop to that, so he now largely contents himself with telling people, "I used to be on the TV, you know."