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Welcome to our 2008 plant list jam-packed with new temptations, which we trust will entice you to grow even more of our treasures. Naturally we would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our calling and mail-order customers for your support throughout 2007. With a special thanks to our hard working staff who made everything possible.
For those who wish to download our 2008 plant list please click on the link below
We have survived another year, it's 2008. You
must be getting weary of our new offerings of even more exotic and exciting plants than ever
before. But what else am I supposed to call
them, just look at the list, you be the judge.
For details of some of our new introductions for this year please look
at the end of this list, where we hope to tempt you with our
efforts. Mail order may have finally arrived but we do still welcome
visitors to the nursery. We still prefer to meet our customers in
person and feel more than justified in claiming that a visit to our
nursery and display gardens repays the effort of travelling to our
beautiful North Wales site. Because of the changes in trading we are
altering our opening times, which are on the homepage of the website. (8th March this year).
The 2007 collecting trips were beyond all our expectations. Peter
Wharton joined me in the north of Vietnam, where I had been
collecting with the aid of a motorbike. I had secured permits for
collecting in a restricted area, where Peter would conduct a survey of
this previously un-botanised area, while our Vietnamese host, Du
was collecting specimen for his institute. The weather was dreadful,
I wasn’t sure if I was going to end up with webbed feet or trenchfoot.
Whatever, the collections kept on rolling in with new plants
almost overwhelming us. By the time Peter and Du left I was under
the impression that it could not get any better than this. Well it did.
Sue arrived accompanied by Ben Kettle (from what was Rickard’s
Hardy Ferns) again despite the weather we came up trumps time and
time again. You will not be disappointed in future years with these
collections. Nor my following leg, which Sue unfortunately missed
(running the mail order), was in Taiwan where I was joined by Dan
Hinkley and Finlay Colley. Our hosts in the National Museum of
Taiwan Natural Science, went way beyond their brief in helping us,
which of course came to fruition in some wonderful collections.
For those of our customers who are unable to visit the nursery we are
offering an online shopping experience, with deliveries throughout
the UK and Ireland only, from our mailorder website
Where there are search facilities by many criteria as well as by name
(i.e. colour), as well as indicating pot sizes and price. For queries on
plant availability etc please contact Sue.
All of this is in addition to our online catalogue which is still there with information and photographs of
all the plants we sell during the year. Our carrier, City Link offer an
overnight fragile service, which should have your plants delivered in
fresh condition before 5pm the following day to dispatch. We have
specially made boxes in 3 sizes giving us the option of dispatching
plants from 30cm (1ft) to 249cm (8ft) tall. Our carriage charges are
by the box, (volume not weight) hence please consider ordering
enough plants to fill a box, rather than one plant as the carriage
charge would be the same. There is no minimum charge for the
plants purchased. However we feel that we should forewarn our
customers that as the season progresses many of our lines will be out
of stock. Conversely new lines will only be offered/available after we
re-open our on-site sales in the spring (8th March this year).
We try our best to reply to any queries, but unfortunately we can be
overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Brief e-mail can be the surest way
of a reply.
Please note the lay-out of the following list avoiding repetition of
collected plants, (etc signifying more available) the full list and
descriptions are on our web-site where space is unlimited.
www.crug-farm.co.uk. Here there are not only descriptions of all
of our plants, but photographs of most as well, this information is
also accessible on the computer in our sales-area.
Finally we would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our
calling and mail-order customers for your support throughout 2007.
With a special thanks to our hard working staff who made everything
possible.
Bleddyn
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