All right, alternatively I will go north to get hardwood (5)
I believe the answer is:
iroko
'hardwood' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'all right alternatively i will go north to get' is the wordplay.
'all right' becomes 'ok' (synonyms).
'alternatively i will' becomes 'ori' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'go north' says the letters should be written in reverse (I've seen 'going north' mean this).
'to get' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ori' backwards is 'iro'.
'ok' going within 'iro' is 'IROKO'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for iroko that I've seen before include "Tropical hardwood" , "Tropical wood often used in place of teak" , "A light-coloured African hardwood" , "hard wood" , "tree" .)