I get so many of them, they are a thug, watch out for self seeders, i pull the out every year and get a compost bin full. I started of 30 years ago with one plant I bought very cheap in a green grocers, it’s all taken off from there, I have give loads away and have many still here, when they finish flowering cut the whole lot back to the ground, I expect you know that though.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Lyn....your attitude towards buying plants reminds me of a customer who used to
frequent the nursery where I used to work in the 1980's .
He would often pop-in and buy the most perfect cactus plant he could afford ; he'd take it next week to his local cactus and succulent show , then come out with a gold-medal (like he'd grown it himself)..... what the hell is the point in doing that ????????????
I don’t know Paul, I don’t find anything satisfying in buy a plant. I do like to be given plants by someone, then I can look back and say that’s so and so’s. Or, I pinched that cutting form such a place. There are 60 hydrangeas here, all grown from cuttings, some from the doctors surgery car park, I can’t remember where now.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I must admit that I enjoy buying plants from specialist plant fairs ;usually rarely available species. These are bought for my own garden and I try to propagate accordingly .
Then I give bits and pieces away to people .
I cannot imagine the mentality of anyone buying a plant just to win some pointless medal.
You are a gardener of course you want to keep buying plants. Whatever else did you expect. I can really recommend Erythorium Pagoda beautiful. Do you have enough plant guilt now. 😉😉😉
My name is AnniD, and l am a plantaholic. I have a coldframe full, a greenhouse full of dahlias that will need to go somewhere, 4 clematis awaiting planting into pots, random plants in pots waiting to also go "somewhere". Three big trays of plants waiting to go to the charity shop (my conscience easer), and another delivery of pelargoniums awaited (but l know where they are going, so that's okay isn't it ? ) My problem is, we are going to the supermarket this morning and if they have healthy looking clematis at a ridiculously low price, surely it is my duty to rescue them from the dark depths of the plant section and bring them home into the light that is my garden ?
Of course you should rescue them! I just rescued a 'reduced' Magnolia of some type from Homebase. The pot was bust up and the label was missing so I am not sure what type it is - it's either 'Susan' or stellata. I hope it's the latter but I will have to wait until next year to find out.
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I started of 30 years ago with one plant I bought very cheap in a green grocers, it’s all taken off from there, I have give loads away and have many still here, when they finish flowering cut the whole lot back to the ground, I expect you know that though.
Or, I pinched that cutting form such a place. There are 60 hydrangeas here, all grown from cuttings, some from the doctors surgery car park, I can’t remember where now.
its nice to get a plant that you can immediately chop up for cuttings.
Do you have enough plant guilt now. 😉😉😉
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
My problem is, we are going to the supermarket this morning and if they have healthy looking clematis at a ridiculously low price, surely it is my duty to rescue them from the dark depths of the plant section and bring them home into the light that is my garden ?
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'