Husband and i went to a garden centre yesterday and saw a large wisteria in a pot with a frame. £850. (euro equivalent) .Almost had to be revived with smelling salts.
My most recent shocker wasn't the actual price but the value. A 2l pot containing a small Skimmia rubra £39.95. No it wasn't a misprint. I asked when my voice had come back down. The next GC (yes surprisingly we moved on) had the same plant for £8.95 and that was dear!
Four Miss Wilmott's Ghost and 6-8 Sweet Woodruff seedlings @£6.99 each on the first website I came across after reading this. Plus P&P and they don't even deliver to here!!! I put a donation in the charity box. Long live the seed and plant swap!!!
I've just sown two packets of "seedless" tomato seeds, which cost two or three pounds a packet plus p&p. They are so small and you get so few in a packet, that, weight for weight, I could probably have bought diamonds for less.
Mature olive trees in a nursery in France, forget how many thousands of euros they were. The most I've ever paid for a plant was £90 for a prostrate Abies Koreana.
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The next GC (yes surprisingly we moved on) had the same plant for £8.95 and that was dear!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I put a donation in the charity box. Long live the seed and plant swap!!!