Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Other Local Resorts & Areas => Uzumlu Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Shakira on August 29, 2008, 22:27:32 PM
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Can anyone recommend a good place to buy plants and tree's for the garden and a place that would also be able to deliver for a large order. Many Thanks :)
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As you turn off Dalaman road to Fethiye ,garden centre on left hand side ,found to be very good with advice where to grow , not only after a quick buck they do seem to know what they are doing! Regards Calvin from friendly Uzumlu
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I like the place at the end of the Gunlukbasi Road, where it meets the Fethiye/Dalaman road (on the right). There;s a chap who can speak english, the plants are in pots like you would see in the UK and they are all in lines so you can see what you are buying. Rather than all over the place in tins.
Wherever you go, make sure they understand where you live incase (like Üzümlü) it gets cold at night in the winter, some plants wont survive.
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Methinks this is the same place! LOL You have just come at it from the opposite direction, LOL. Interesting 2 Uzumluites have mentioned the same place!
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yep sounds like the same place ,to me too .Regards Calvin
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Would agree with the 2 posts about the Fethiye/Dalaman road centre, but there is also a good one, though smaller, on the Dalaman road at Ciftlik, good plants, knows what will grow where and will give free plants (small though) if you frequent there a lot.
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I think Pegleg recommended that place to us. We intend to have a look next time we're passing.
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Thanks Calvin Eric & Rindaloo,a good bit of info, i'll check it out.:D
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there is a little place of gunluckbasi road i think it's called altin we bought a cherry tree and a apple tree in april and both are growing very well
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Why is it that every garden centre you go to the owner follows you around even though you explain to him you are just looking?! The joy of garden centres back home is that you can look around at your leisure and not feel under any pressure to buy.
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Yes, I agree. Maybe someone ought to tell them we need our space to just ponder.
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How many times have you stood in a garden centre in the UK and want to ask some questions but you can't find anybody?
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LOL, never satisfied, eh!
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Hi Shakira - yup, we have used that garden centre too - very good, healthy plants and reasonably priced. We have also used the lady opposite Migros - they will even come up to Uzumlu and plant everything for you (for just a few lire more). As someone said just make sure you keep Saying Uzumlu, cos we had a few disasters the first year, with things not making it through the winter. Roses and jasmines are fantastic though ! and the herbs go bananas !!! (what every you do, don't cut down that almond tree !! It gives us our shade !!! ;)
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Had one glitch with the place opposite Migros. We bought a tree, they put it on their lorry with the leaves and branches hanging over the windscreen of the truck. As soon as we got to a speed it bent right back on itself all the way to the roundabout coming off the Antalya Dalaman road. Then he stopped and got me to hold the tree through the window of the cab the rest of the way. We planted it that night and the very next day we saw leaves curling up. Initially I thought it was wind burn. Then the whole tree had dead leaves on it. Then we realised all the twigs were dry followed by branches. In the end we dug it out this year when we established the whole thing was as dead as a doornail. We went back with a translator and told them we had had a problem and described the trees demise and they looked mystified and said they would come to look at it (this was before we dug it up). They didn't, so we went to the place at the Gunlukbasi road for a replacement. I believe the bending damaged the trunk.