Eight hundred quid?! Does it only grow in unicorn shit?
That’s a pricing error, I’ve never seen one at that size for more than £30/40.
Maybe 79.99
It looks like a bunch of twigs. I can get those from the park for free.
What a scam
I’ve spent time around people who cultivate bonsai trees including acers and no species of acer available at a garden centre should ever cost this much – over £500 you’re looking at a decades-old work of art that’s had careful attention paid to shaping it for years.
I’d expect it to be dead after two weeks given my history with plants. And £800…I’d almost think it was a piss take price but probably not.
They’re aving a laugh with that one.
That pricetag is definitely wrong, if you spend more than like £50 on a young Japanese Maple (which is what this is), then you’ve been robbed. Maybe if it was full size, then you could justify £800
Why would it die?
Here’s some sad insider knowledge from a garden centre worker. That will be from a Dutch company called Plantline who specialise in “specimen” trees such as Acers and Photinia. You can see some north of 1500 in some garden centres and they do sell
> Bloodgood
FEEEED ME, SEYMOUR!
All it needs is a pair of googly eyes and it’ll be snapped right up 🙂
I’m putting that in my bag and walking nonchalantly past the till
For £800 they need to improve their font choice
Caughs as mine in vack yard died…….
Omg I have that tree in my garden ! I knew it was a pricy tree my mother planted it years ago but I didn’t know they were that pricy ! Are they really that expencive or is that a mistake on the label ?
I’ve all but killed the thing and don’t know what to do . It was growing out of controll and over the foof next door so I didn’t have a choice and cut quite a few branches off . Now it’s kinda dead on one side . It is still growing some leaves but I don’t know what to do have I ruined it ?
Pretty grossly overpriced! I sell the same thing, approx £300
Posh garden centres catering to twats with too much money. Growing Acers from cuttings is surprisingly simple. Bit of rooting hormone powder, a sharp blade, and cutting the green shoots will get you loads.
If you have a neighbour with one, ask them if they’d let you take some cuttings. Take ages to grow, mind, but worth it.
Fuck that, just take some secateurs and take a cutting.
I’m not entirely sure why CasualUK keeps getting suggested to me as someone from California, but I cannot fathom why anyone would pay that. This costs $180 (£142.58) in our nice locally owned garden center, and is even cheaper at the bigger chain stores.
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I’d be calling my credit card company so fast
Blood for the Bloodgood!
£799!? Don’t they mean £7.99? 😭
Eight hundred quid?! Does it only grow in unicorn shit?
That’s a pricing error, I’ve never seen one at that size for more than £30/40.
Maybe 79.99
It looks like a bunch of twigs. I can get those from the park for free.
What a scam
I’ve spent time around people who cultivate bonsai trees including acers and no species of acer available at a garden centre should ever cost this much – over £500 you’re looking at a decades-old work of art that’s had careful attention paid to shaping it for years.
I’d expect it to be dead after two weeks given my history with plants. And £800…I’d almost think it was a piss take price but probably not.
They’re aving a laugh with that one.
That pricetag is definitely wrong, if you spend more than like £50 on a young Japanese Maple (which is what this is), then you’ve been robbed. Maybe if it was full size, then you could justify £800
Why would it die?
Here’s some sad insider knowledge from a garden centre worker. That will be from a Dutch company called Plantline who specialise in “specimen” trees such as Acers and Photinia. You can see some north of 1500 in some garden centres and they do sell
> Bloodgood
FEEEED ME, SEYMOUR!
All it needs is a pair of googly eyes and it’ll be snapped right up 🙂
I’m putting that in my bag and walking nonchalantly past the till
For £800 they need to improve their font choice
Caughs as mine in vack yard died…….
Omg I have that tree in my garden ! I knew it was a pricy tree my mother planted it years ago but I didn’t know they were that pricy ! Are they really that expencive or is that a mistake on the label ?
I’ve all but killed the thing and don’t know what to do . It was growing out of controll and over the foof next door so I didn’t have a choice and cut quite a few branches off . Now it’s kinda dead on one side . It is still growing some leaves but I don’t know what to do have I ruined it ?
Pretty grossly overpriced! I sell the same thing, approx £300
Posh garden centres catering to twats with too much money. Growing Acers from cuttings is surprisingly simple. Bit of rooting hormone powder, a sharp blade, and cutting the green shoots will get you loads.
If you have a neighbour with one, ask them if they’d let you take some cuttings. Take ages to grow, mind, but worth it.
Fuck that, just take some secateurs and take a cutting.
Obviously buy some rooting hormone powder, gotta buy *something* otherwise you’d feel guilty.
I’m not entirely sure why CasualUK keeps getting suggested to me as someone from California, but I cannot fathom why anyone would pay that. This costs $180 (£142.58) in our nice locally owned garden center, and is even cheaper at the bigger chain stores.