Ordered all the heavy top soil, grow bags and gravels from Creative Garden Ideas online, it arrived on a lorry at 7.30 on Thursday morning. Very impressed by the efficiency and being spared the carrying of the heavy stuff. They also seemed pretty cheap: creativegardenideas.co.uk
Favourite online website for plug plants which arrive lovingly packaged in plastic boxes and are ready to go: bloomingdirect.com
Great packs of seeds from the Eden Project, and generally interesting plants: suttons.co.uk
And herbs, come wrapped in damp newspaper which is sweet but makes other letters soggy: nicholsonsherbfarm.co.uk
Ordered garden tools here on Saturday, they turned up on the following Friday with an emailed eta that morning so I could make sure I was in to take receipt: gardencentreonline.com
Time to sort out pests, a problem with what look like spider mite: Harrod Horticultural and their LittleBookofPests
