Anna33, its called Staverton, Halland, comes confusingly comes under Lewes. Has a members club card, points on your purchases. We are Lower Willingdon, you can cut cross country, from Brighton,Hubby says theres a really good on one the A26, as well on the back roads, and Rodmell Garden Centre is good. Perhaps we can meet up one day.
@Nanny Beach, thank you - probably just at the limits of where I'd travel at the moment, if I combined with a good walk to justify it, but I'm glad you told me about it! And yes, maybe once this is all over then meeting up might be lovely, putting a face to a screen name.
Thanks @Nanny Beach and @FlyDragon. This is both excellent and a little part of me was thinking the restrictions would help with my plant buying addiction That's exactly what would get me Flydragon and everything else . If I can just hold out until my squashes are all planted out then I've done over 2 months.
Well done! I didn't even stop buying plants during lockdown! This garden centre was delivering within a 5 mile radius so I got an azalea from them a few weeks ago, plus some seeds online, don't know if that counts!
Of all the addictions we could have, buying plants is not so bad, that's what I tell myself anyway!
To be honest I bought lots of stuff before the lockdown. I had seeds, bulbs and bare roots to be keeping me occupied/satisfied. On top of that I have being doing lots of garden DIY.
But soon I will be back in garden centres/nurseries and the buying addiction will be back. I say to myself and wife that I will only buy something if I need it, but things nearly always catch my eye. Then I'm in the car with a boot full and a mixture of glee and guilt You are right though in that it's a good addiction, or at least not as bad as some others
i went to my GC this morning, and arrived 5 minutes after the 9am opening, but there was already a queue and I had to wait for over 30 minutes to get in as they were only allowing 30 people inside at a time. Despite this, I also had to queue at the tills. Bedding plants were in very short supply but everything else was available in decent amounts. I will not be going back in a hurry!
Slightly P'd off by my local nursery. They called yesterday to say they had lost my order, this despite reading back e-mails sent and received in the same e-mail string. As they are opening on Wednesday they don't want to deliver any more orders and I will need to go there to select the stuff myself.
If it wasn't for the fact that their plants really are good, I would have told them where to put them. I've also ended up getting compost and bark chipping from my local Homebase instead, which has saved me money and cost them profit.
@Alan Clark2 in Liverpool Hi.. I live in Liverpool too. I’m planning on going to Dobbies in Speke this weekend.. may I ask if you went there today? I wouldn’t fancy waiting in those queues especially given I can technically still wait for a bit longer with my current gardening supplies.
@Alan Clark2 in Liverpool Hi.. I live in Liverpool too. I’m planning on going to Dobbies in Speke this weekend.. may I ask if you went there today? I wouldn’t fancy waiting in those queues especially given I can technically still wait for a bit longer with my current gardening supplies.
Went to a local Garden Centre for some bags of compost. Their long standing offer...all of last year.. was for 4 bags for £10, They had a well marked one way system through all areas inside and out eventually ending at the till/exit but in the time it took to go from entrance to exit the offer had changed from 4 bags to 3. Clawing back money I suppose but a bit 'off' when the offer was still advertised at the front.
After phoning the nursery I normally use and being advised that it was chaos (their words) I decided to go to one of the GC's instead. Effective one way system in place in the building, but not for getting between the car park and the building. They are using one path, about a metre wide for 2 way traffic in that area. Makes no sense as they do have 2 paths. Limited supply and range of plants, which is no surprise, but the prices are high. Cost me nearly £80 for plants to fill 5 x 14" pots and hanging baskets. Under normal circumstances I wouldn't have paid it, but options are very limited and it's a bit late to grow my own.
After visiting B&M, Lidl and Morrisons, I felt I deserved a stop that GC on the way home. ( have to drive past it anyway ) 4 Hostas for £10, feel much better.
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But soon I will be back in garden centres/nurseries and the buying addiction will be back. I say to myself and wife that I will only buy something if I need it, but things nearly always catch my eye. Then I'm in the car with a boot full and a mixture of glee and guilt
You are right though in that it's a good addiction, or at least not as bad as some others
They had a well marked one way system through all areas inside and out eventually ending at the till/exit but in the time it took to go from entrance to exit the offer had changed from 4 bags to 3. Clawing back money I suppose but a bit 'off' when the offer was still advertised at the front.