Daft question really. Very easy for a Japanese maple to cost more than £20 and I've seen people selling brand new/esoteric/hard to find hemerocallis for over 100€ in a Belgian plant fair and fancy hydrangeas for similar sums.
Gone are the days when I would happily fork out premium prices for special plants. These days I tend to buy cheaper plants that are known to be good doers - all too often the specials turn out to be wussy or fussy and didn't cope with my extreme Belgian winters and wouldn't cope with the droughts here.
Nor do I buy in 3s, 5s and 7s any more unless they're very cheap. Now I buy one good one and grow it on and then divide or take cuttings. Takes longer but that's OK. More satisfying. Garden club plant swaps are another good source of free plants.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
If I saw a plant that I had to have I would probably end up spending wae more than it was worth but, what's a few extra quid against years of pleasure from it?
I don't by expensive rare plants, but I have bought quite a few trees and still need to buy more. I have bought whips for under £2 each and I have grown a few from seed and from cuttings. But I will pay £30 or so for a nice tree, if something catches my eye.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Budgets are tight right now but I'll spend a bit on something really nice, especially if I know I can get cuttings from it. £10 is probably my maximum though for a non-tree, non-fruit plant and even then I'd have to think quite hard about it.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I have quite a few DA roses. Some were bought bare root so less than £20 but quite a few were pot grown and they cost more. A couple of choice shrubs have also tipped over. Perennials are usually less than £10.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Just today I went up to the garden center here and looked at walnut trees, they are the equivalent of £70 each. They're grafted so will fruit straight away but still that was a bit steep for me, however I will probably buy one this year, I settled on a fig for about £20 this trip. I think the most I have paid is somewhere around £50
I've paid over £20 for roses and acers. Unlikely to spend that sort of money on anything herbaceous. I'd certainly not pay for 'specimen' sized plants. I'd rather buy small and watch it grow.
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But I have bought several David Austin roses this year...
Gone are the days when I would happily fork out premium prices for special plants. These days I tend to buy cheaper plants that are known to be good doers - all too often the specials turn out to be wussy or fussy and didn't cope with my extreme Belgian winters and wouldn't cope with the droughts here.
Nor do I buy in 3s, 5s and 7s any more unless they're very cheap. Now I buy one good one and grow it on and then divide or take cuttings. Takes longer but that's OK. More satisfying. Garden club plant swaps are another good source of free plants.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Perennials are usually less than £10.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.