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amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
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Happened upon a whole lot of hideous painted heathers at Homebase...do wonder if the time will ever come that those crimes against horticulture will stop. 

Bathe in the garish look of them all 
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited September 2020
    In Belgium I saw fluorescent colour spray painted sedums - the low kind like houseleeks - and was horrified but not nearly as much as when I found one of the Indian ladies in my garden group had bought a load to decorate the path to her front door for a party........... 

    I know she likes colour but really?

    None of that here - so far. 
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  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Haha.. I love them.  I completely forgot about painted heathers.  I seem to remember they come in metallics as well?  

    My boys and I were checking out the painted succulents last weekend at the GC.  I wonder how it effects their chlorophyll processes.  It's very opaque paint.

    Has anyone actually purchased them?  Does the paint come off in the first rain?  Do the plants survive and thrive?  
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  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    Yes I agree, totally tasteless and pointless in my opinion. No accounting for taste though 🙄

    There are so many lovely natural Heathers why buy this garish stuff? 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'd have though they could be done under the  Trades Description act.
    How many people get miffed when the bright orange or green heather just becomes a standard colour afterwards. 

    I assume it  does come off @Blue Onion, but I'm not buying any to check it  ;)
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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    My dear dad bought some coloured heathers a couple of years ago to brighten up the garden for my mum who has a form of dementia. I can tell you that eventually the natural colour of the heather grows through, a bit like grey hair coming through dyed locks.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    It's sad there's a market for them...surely easy enough to get some spray paint and make your own if the mood takes you 😉
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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    If I were feeling cynical I would say they're designed for shops to fill the gap between autumn bulb sales and Christmas tat. Good to know that they do grow out of it, although I guess most of them will either die from lack of care or be thrown out.
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It's such an odd idea. Our local GC fills up with heather around now - before the xmas tat show. Not painted types, but it's still a bit odd to suddenly be pushing everyone to buy loads of heather.

    They also flog cyclamen without a label. I had an argument with the last time I was there, asking what type it was. No type, they said. After pressing, they admitted it was an annual and terrifically unhardy - essentially a house plant, sold outside in Sept with no hint that it wasn't the same as coum and hed. types. If we get frost in Oct then it's Good Night Irene. It all seems underhand to me. So much labelling is woeful.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Yes nearby to those heathers they were selling cyclamens that the label warned buyers that they preferred 16-20°C wonder how many will realise they bought a cyclamen that is for indoor use 😂
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  • English_girl_in_FranceEnglish_girl_in_France Posts: 108
    What a strange thing to do 🤔 humans never cease to amaze me! 
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