Went to a local GC today - just to look, not to buy. Didn’t even take a basket at the entrance. What do you know, walked out with a TROLLEY full of plants. Found two strawberry varieties and two garden plants that I wanted to have for a while. Plus one that looked really pretty, one that was on sale and this amazing unusual aquilegia with huge flowers and really tall stems. Not even feeling guilty, only happy 😊😄
I popped in to homebase for some non garden supplies and now I own a Ceanothus thyrsiflorus var. repens because it was on clearance. But I'm not sure I have a space for it!
I had to pop down to the civilised part of Wales yesterday to pick up some kiddy outdoor play stuff I saw on Gumtree (total bargain ). On the way back I had a tour of the garden centres that I never normally get to visit on the excuse of looking for a particular alpine. Despite having no budget for plants I still accidently bought a nice little sedum, a very attractive variagated London Pride saxifrage, a moon stone succulent that I've fancied for a while and a new tillandsia. Having checked my receipt I don't think they charged me for the tillandsia though I also bought a scary piranha to guard the herb bed
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Don't know how you do it @islander I love visiting quiet remote places but don't think I could live in one. I live ten minutes from countryside and five minutes from a small town for me that is perfect.
Ok it's happened again, I only went to eat cake and have a cuppa with by best friend and suddenly I had loads of plants in my basket. I think I might have to get one of those bands that alcoholics tweak on their wrist everytime they get tempted to have a drink.
This time I bought an Alstromeria, 3 viola Mrs Lancaster, Geranium Tumbling Heart, Osteospermum Stardust and a tray of annual violas.
London Pride is hard to get hold of now Lyn I have been trying for weeks I have tried nurseries, Garden Centers and the garden section in DIY stores no one has it. I have also been trying to get some Snow in Summer but again no luck in the end I have bought seeds off eBay they have taken but as to them being Snow in Summer only time will tell.
Ok I popped in to the GC "just to look". I come out with 3 Echinacea pallida, 3 Nepeta "Kit Kat", a Hemerocallis and a Phlox "Blue Paradise".
If I "need" a plant at all it would be a Japanese maple for my patio, but somehow I get sucked into buying more and more perennials every time.
How can I learn to control myself? Or should I give up and dig up the lawn!
I'd dig up the lawn 🤣 But seriously, I have the same problem, every single time. When Monty says "the hardest part is deciding what to leave out", he isn't wrong. I don't think my garden will ever be large enough!
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Found two strawberry varieties and two garden plants that I wanted to have for a while. Plus one that looked really pretty, one that was on sale and this amazing unusual aquilegia with huge flowers and really tall stems. Not even feeling guilty, only happy 😊😄
both thugs and need a big cull every year.
But seriously, I have the same problem, every single time.
When Monty says "the hardest part is deciding what to leave out", he isn't wrong.
I don't think my garden will ever be large enough!