Bunnings

Michael D says...
That's not a bad price as my local independent nursery is selling it for $65.I'm not sure why the cherry guava are so expensive.

BJ says...
Michael, that is rediculous. I've seen local nurseries charge $80 for a grafted Jakfruit, which I thought was super cheeky, but $65 for a weed?

louie says...
Missing the point ,Pauline. What Bunnings paid is probably much ,much less. They are taking advantage of people who do not have time to shop around

Pauline says...
No Louie I'm not. Where I work supplies bunnings with plants, which we have to barcode with bunnings prices and their mark up is less than most nurseries around here at least. Just about the only one who charges less is stratco.

The point you were missing is that they do not buy plants from every supplier out there, only ones they have agreements with. If another nursery has found a cheaper suplier then great for them, but it doesn't mean bunnings are getting it from those same people at that same price.

Pauline says...
Look, you are going to believe you are being ripped off no matter what I say. But as I said, they add far less to their costs than other nurseries. I can only go by the price I know they buy at and then see that they sell at. You don't want to accept that, and that is fine. Spend your life feeling hard done by at every turn. Your loss.

Mike says...
I have bought quite a few trees from bunnings and they are pretty good most of the time.They are increasingly getting a range of good mangoes,lychees and other fruit trees sourced from nurseries like birdwood.Big w is the same.It can be difficult for specialised nurseries to compete and say Limberlost in Cairns is routinely more expensive.There are always anomalies and cherry guavas seem to be one of those.I don't know why they are often double the price of jaboticabas,tropical guavas and grafted sapodillas when on display together.

Fusspot says...
They're more expensive for the simple reason that there's not much demand for them.
They're not as useful or as widely grown as say citrus, so there would be fewer trees propagated.
So if you want a novelty fruit, you pay novelty prices.
Simple.

BJ says...
Birdwood have also said bunnings has the lowest markups of any of their stockists (except for one small nursery down the street in Nambour). They have started to move away from specialty or novelty lines and are focussing on the major sellers - the ones bunnings want in big numbers. This does mean that things like cherry guavas, which should not really be sold anyways, will be sourced from smaller and more expensive wholesalers. Having said that, Daley's prices must be what the wholesalers charge on the more tropical lines, as grafted Jaks are around $60 in bunnies. The nurseries with the best reputations seem to be able to charge like wounded bulls, but this strategy will see them go the way of the dinosaurs.

BJ says...
We'd be talking about a few going to every bunnings, which means huge numbers to an exotic fruit nursery. I believe they were talking about dragon fruit, mangoes, avocadoes, specialty citrus lines (cara cara navel, dwarf mandarins) starfruit, feijoa, grapes, coffee, etc. These are all produced by birdwood and every store for a few hundred kms here always has a few on hand. It makes it mighty hard to get cultivars outside of the required few bunnings wants though. I'm finding it hard to get a reed avocado, which were dead easy a few years back...

ivepeters says...
lots of pepino at bunnings at the moment.
Found Turners nursery , carry a few tropicals.