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Are you a Plonker or a Placer?

tessagardenbarmytessagardenbarmy Posts: 346
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Had a lovely tour round Stella Exley's Harespring Cottage Plants with U3A gardening group and she mentioned this with regards to how you place plants in your borders.
She's a Placer thinks about colour combos,foliage type etc. I'm a Plonker just love plants,they are my therapy. So can't resist a bargain or the poor plant that's vastly  reduced because it's on its last legs!
So how about you forum members? Do you plonk or place?
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  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    I am definitely not a placer.  I was going to say I was a plonker but that would lead to all sorts of comments. 
    West Yorkshire
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    I guess I try to place, but probably ends up like I plonked!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’m a plonker...there’s a space there, I’ll plonk this in😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    I try very hard to be a placer, but invariably end up being a plonker - short plants at the back of the border, tall plants at the front - oh dear - is there no hope for me?
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    I'm definitely a placer. In my garden there is a place for each plant and each plant is in its place. :)
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I started off being a plonker (some say I still am) but am trying to be a placer. Well done you, Papi Jo. I have managed to get the right plant right place thing going as far as orientation/soil etc., but the succession of colour thing is still a mystery.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Bagpuss57Bagpuss57 Posts: 256
    tessagardenbarmy said:
     So can't resist a bargain or the poor plant that's vastly  reduced because it's on its last legs!
    So how about you forum members? Do you plonk or place?
    I definitely plonk. I just can't resist plants, especially flowers and have to use all my will power to just get what I need when I visit the GC. Even the hundred or more seeds I sowed now need a space so I just plonk them anywhere where there is a gap. I love to see my garden crammed full of contrasting colours. It's my therapy too so I don't listen to the formal advice about placing, colour matching and height etc. As long as it makes me happy that's what matters most!
  • BurtsnestBurtsnest Posts: 174
    Started as a plonker, working my way up to being a placer. My other half thinks it's hilarious when I buy the half dead reduced plant at the garden centre. Guess I'm also a rescuer  :D
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    RoddersUK said:
    I guess I try to place, but probably ends up like I plonked!
    I have started a new garden so I have a colour theme,  get plants that suit the aspect and soil but I just can't keep it on track and it ends up as RoddersUK

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I'm turning into a placer too. I like the GW idea of putting your pots where you want to plant and keeping them there for a while to test out the placing. It seems to work pretty well. I have killed a lot of plants over the years by giving them the wrong soil/sun/space etc. So now I try to be more careful to a) save money b) save plants c) look better. It seems to be working. Slowly.
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