For those of us in Europe here is someone I get some of my frigs from, Jean-Marc Cayuela. I get them without going through ebay and the deal is cheaper. I can't guarantee you'll get them cheaper but it wouldn't hurt to ask. He's near the Spanish border and has a small gardening business.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/jeq-games/m.html?item=142313878390&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

thanks Kelo, that looks good. Looks like he will combine postage too.

Yes, he's a very nice young guy. He does landscape gardening as a living. I got my noire de calomb from him. He felt so guilty about the postage he put in a second one and a rosemary plant. In return I sent him dozens of cuttings of blackcurrants, josta berries and red currants lol.

:)

Thanks for the link.

He has very good prices, although the postage it's a bit steep. 

My problem with these small businesses is that the varieties they sell may not be true to type. It's a disappointment to care for a plant for a couple of years only to find out that you don't have the right variety.
It happened to a spanish friend that bought a Grise de St'Jean from a french nursery cochetfrederic and then send me some cuttings with the best intentions. Last year i found out they were not Grise de St' Jean.
I told him (the tree hasn't produce for him yet) and he talked to the nursery. They did good, even after 2 years, they send him a new tree. But now he has to wait for it to grow and start producing to confirm what he has.

This year i got cuttings from the true variety, this time from a french friend that bought the tree from Pierre Baud. As he says, he got tired of getting the wrong varieties and now he only buys from Baud (quite expensive trees but i guess its the price to pay for his piece of mind)

I'm not saying that the guy you bought from is not selling the right varieties, but it's not a good sign when they don't use their own photos and, at least for Grise de St' Jean (the one i immediately checked) the photos are from a french website (Culture du Figuier - Francois Drouet)
Sometimes they buy the plants they sell in bulk from another bigger nursery and don't hang to the trees long enough to know what they have, so they depend on what they get to sell and who knows if he doesn't get is trees from cochetfrederic :-)  (just kidding... but...maybe...)

Thanks for the link, anyway...

You can buy with safety from Jean-Marc. usually it's the supplier that mislabels the plants and the vendor gets stuck with the poor reputation. He would have used his own photos had the fig had figs on it. If you buy direct from him he combines the postage and yo get a better deal.

Here's another guy I buy from   http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/sempercolo/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

Thanks Kelo, I've just purchased a couple of RdB from him to get me started as I'm also in the UK and hard to find reliable sellers.

Excellent. He will do his very best for you if you ask him about whatever fig you want.

Kelo,thanks for bringing this seller to the attention of U.K. Growers,let's hope varieties prove to be true to type.At those prices if he combines and you order a few very reasonable.Any idea how many plants he can combine for the £16 postage?,obviously the more plants the lower the per plant postage cost

I have no idea what he would charge. All I know is he does combine postage. I had bought several (6) from him and he combined postage on them.

Awesome,your collection is storming ahead Kelo,16 days you have been a member,you are on like 2 varieties a day,at this rate you will will over take Vinny by the end of the summer,Glad to see more UK members joining the madness

Yes, I tend to go berserk with the ordering. My mother once chastised me severely because I planted 400 tulips and 120 lilies. I have what must be the most jam packed garden in Europe lol. I'm looking at pots with several cuttings in them in the greenhouse and thinking where am i going to put all the pots?

Well at least you grow flowers,that must soften the blow,I pretty much only plant edible/usable plants.I moved to a house with a garden which needed a lot of work,its not far off being a blank canvas now(just need to remove the patchy old privet hedge,a hazel and a leylandii and then I can fill it again,well,around the edges anyway,my wife insists we have grass for the kids to run around on?)

Hi Kelo, thanks for posting the two good ebay sellers, that's a very nice selection of cuttings indeed. Unfortunately i'm renting my house and i've just about run out of space in the garden, all my plants are in pots for that reason too. But I dream of one day having a huge fig orchard :-) and a huge heated greenhouse too :-)

cheers,
steve

Hi Steve,

No worries, my pleasure.

Keep buying figs; you will find the time and space for them. I'm currently taking legal action to give me sole control of every garden in the village to house all of mine lol.

Kelo, hi.  I was gifted a columnar apple tree that's a little overgrown and in need of pruning.  Would you be willing to post a few pictures of your columnar trees?

One thing I noticed which confuses me, the first seller that you mentioned has Dauphine listed and also Gris de Tarascon. Here on the forum these are described as being the same variety. Does anyone know if they are?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Figuier-Ficus-carica-Dauphine-/142325517456?hash=item2123430c90:g:NBAAAOSw32lY1qq~

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ficus-carica-Grise-de-Tarascon-80cm-/142318043320?hash=item2122d100b8:g:zJQAAOSw2gxYpgfv