What's your latest garden buy/ bargain.....share please.

[Upsy Daisy]

No need to drive @alp........it's only a 5 minute walk away, I often go there to see what's on offer , very good bargains to be had LOVE IT!!!

 

[alp]

You lucky princess! 5 minutes' walk!

I went to the market to see if I could buy the trollius chinensis. No, sold out. my heart sank and broken. Forced myself to look and look and had to go to another stall and saw this which i think is Descampsia cespitosa

Frilled as only £1

Then went to Pound shop where something is now OMG £2!
Found only 2 plants out of 15 alive. They even had Gaura ... £1 for a white one. I was gutted, another broken heart! I bought a coreopsis

On the way home, saw a salix for £5. I hope the branches are not going to shoot up.

Very happy day!

 

[alp]

Bought two more trays of the same petunias as shown earlier. Today they costs only 50p... Then bought some lupins for £2 each. One red and one blue. Hope they are going to be big, not the puny ones I have already had.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

@alp I grew some Lupins from seed last year and planted them out in the Autumn, do you think they will flower this year? They are not huge , but looking OK and healthy, and thankfully no sign of the dreaded lupin aphid

50p... ......Wow ,now that is what I call a real cracker of a bargain, good one !

 

[alp]

They should do. I don't much like lupin, but if they are lupin trees, they are well worth it.

 

[alp]

Finally, I've got myself 2 salvia Amistad reduced to £1 each

1 hibiscus reduced from £7 to £1

a tray of red double petunia reduced to £1

More spider flower @£1.50 and another nerine the same price with 3 bulbs in each of the bags.. £7.. Just hope the salvias are going to live.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Well done @alp !!
Where did you get them from.....B&Q?

 

[Logan]

A week ago i bought 5 packets of seeds a £1.each. for next year. The last time i got 2 pks of runner bean seeds, usually £2.99 each got them for £1.
It's been very hot, can't do anything.

 

[alp]

@Upsy Daisy Yes. B&Q. Well chuffed. But I shouldn't have planted the salvias out in the searing heat. I might dig one up and put it somewhere cooler.

@Logan Can't blame you. The air from outside is now heated even now.

My place is full of my son's stuff.. and a little freezer.. My house is sooo small ..

 

[Logan]

@alp my dad used to say, plant early in the morning or evening. That way it gives the plants to recover.

 

[Logan]

@alp could your son keep some things at his dad's?

 

[BigC]

Although I've had it a while now (and it wasn't cheap) its got to be this Acer tree "Beni Maiko"
Smaller leaves and the most beautiful of colour...

 

[Verdun]

That is lovely BigC. I want it but prob too near the coast

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Some good bargains there @Logan .....where from ?

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Good old B&Q...... were they on the ' sick bay ' trolley @alp ?