Where do you buy your greens? Experiences/tips?

We had been recommended by friends to use heckenpflanzen Punkt de and ordered bare-root privet for 10 meters of hedge there. Clear website, good prices, delivery on the desired date. Unfortunately, it was shipped with DHL and they messed up the delivery. The plants only arrived after 1 week, the roots quite dry because it was warm... A replacement delivery was not possible because the plants had already started to sprout and then can no longer be shipped. The employee on the phone was really helpful and due to the delay we got a full refund. We probably won't order there again. We planted the plants anyway, but it looks like 20 out of 32 won't make it... Really a shame, I would have preferred to pay and have leaves on all the plants now.

We have a great, committed, owner-managed garden specialist store just around the corner. We buy almost everything there. Then there is a real tree nursery in town, where we recently also made purchases. I like that the trees come from the region.

We got a few things from the large garden center or the hardware store.

I'm jealous! Are you already opaque? Ours are not...

Ours aren’t really either. The neighbor has a hornbeam hedge, which is already dense. The copper beech is really late.

But it is now gaining a lot of leaf mass daily!

Ours neither, really. The neighbor has a hornbeam hedge, which is already dense. The copper beech is really late

But it is gaining a lot of leaf mass every day now!

We have a hornbeam column. It is already... puh... 6? meters and an estimated diameter of 150cm, super green... if I had known that, it would have been hornbeam and not beech for the hedge. But who knows the differences when building a house?!

Similar for us. On the other hand, the blood beech looks better...

We also have a columnar beech. Bought at 4.50 m and now probably already 5.50 m. I want to cut off the top 50 cm today. The "tree teacher" recommended this to me. Then it won’t be so susceptible to wind anymore. I don’t know how it is for you, but ours already bends worryingly in strong winds.

I would always buy more expensive trees locally and have them planted there as well, that way you at least get a growth guarantee. You have to look closely at garden center stock to see if the roots are still okay; the stuff there is sometimes treated very negligently. We have here (mind) 2 large garden centers, I buy from one without hesitation, but I don't set foot in the other anymore. They only advertise with cheap offers, they must be selling below equity, otherwise it can't be done. And the quality is terrible.

What I want to say: as usual, it all depends.