The UK is zoned as per the post office areas, but currently all 3 zones have the same rate. We have set a fixed Postage cost of £6.99 per order which holds for any size of order below £60. Owing to increased costs, we do not offer free shipping to Northern Ireland. This allows for us to send your parcel by courier to arrive in excellent condition. Above £50 worth of plants ordered you will then see the ‘free postage’ option become available which you are at liberty to select. The Channel Islands and Republic of Ireland have their own rates. The Channel Islands is set at £6.24 plus 75p per plant. All of Ireland is no longer viable on account of phytosanitory costs (Thank you Brexit !!). These reflect the increased cost of sending plants to these locations.

If you order just greetings cards, a lower rate is applicable.

In all events it our intention to offer a service that gets plants to you quickly and in the best condition possible. We could just drop all the plants in a box and hope for the best, but experience tells us better. We send plants in their pots, bagged to keep in the moisture. We then cardboard collar plants so that they can’t travel upwards in the box if the box is turned upside down. Its impossible to pack so that there is zero possibility of harm, but we try to pack so that the chances are small – who of us hasn’t received a parcel at some point that looks like it has been used as a football.

We use three main delivery routes – complicated, but a necessary measure to allow us to send plants to you at these favourable rates. Many nurseries set a minimum order value, or charge ever increasing postage costs. we believe you should be able to order one plant if that is what you want and do not think it fair to penalise those who want to order more.

For small orders we will use Royal Mail’s small parcel service – this can handle a couple of plants up to 6 plants.  Above this we make use of DPD. This is a tracked service on a guaranteed 24 hour tariff,  most plants are arriving the day after collection.

In order to keep courier costs down, allowing us to offer a good service at a good price, and to give us time to get the nursery work done, we contract our packing days down to the start of the week. This also prevents plants being stuck in boxes over the weekend.

I hope this explains how we work, but please ring if you have any questions or special requirements – Our DPD contract will allow for guaranteed next day delivery if there is particular urgency.

UK Postage Zones (* = any number or letter combination, so BT* could be BT3 3BE or BT6 1AA)

  1.  Zone 1 – Any Postcode not covered below
  2.  Zone 2 – IV1*, HS*, PH4*, PH5*, PH2*, PH3*, PH19*, PH18*, PH17*, IV2*, IV3*, IV40*, IV41*, IV42*, IV43*, IV44*, IV45*, IV46*, IV47*, IV48*, IV49*, IV51*, IV52*, IV53*, IV54*, IV55*, IV56*, KA27*, KA28*, KW*, PA2*, PA3*, PA4*, PA6*, PA7*, ZE*
  3.  Zone 3 – Isle of Man, TR21*, IM*, TR25*, TR22*, TR23*, TR24
  4. Northern Ireland – BT*

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