Maybe there's a hole in the market for someone to start selling 'horticultural enhancement spray'. No more weeding! Turn your nettles and Japanese knotweed into vibrant statement plants with our lurid sparkly spray paint! Works effortlessly on weeds, trees, bushes, pets, plastic grass, the wife or even the car. Ugly children? Try horticultural enhancement spray! What's the worst that can happen?! Buy some today!!
"Maybe there's a hole in the market for someone to start selling 'horticultural enhancement spray'."
@wild edges - I think you are, in seriousness, right. You should patent the idea. If you can coat holly and gerbers in glitter (!?@*@?) then you can coat anything. Add perfume, spray-on polyphenols, glow in the dark elements, chocolate coating, sprinkles, smart plant paint connected on an app to your phone.
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 😂
Note to self - check the label on the cyclamens that are sitting outside the front door!
They often don't have a suitable label though @LisaJ73
You need coum or hederifolium, not persicum for outdoor use. A good retail outlet should have them correctly labelled. Supermarkets etc often don't
The price usually gives it away. The pretty indoor, tender ones on sale everywhere just now tend to be cheap. Often in a pack of 6. Cyclamen coum and Cyclamen hederifolium are expensive..expect to pay £3.99 per plant for a not very impressive specimen. In the ground they should get bigger year on year.
They often don't have a suitable label though @LisaJ73
You need coum or hederifolium, not persicum for outdoor use. A good retail outlet should have them correctly labelled. Supermarkets etc often don't
Yeah, I've bought the persicum which it does mention on the label. Ah well, they look pretty for now! I might take one out of the pot and bring it into the house.
There are white coum and hederifolium varieties @Buzzy2. I also have some. Colour isn't really enough of an indicator, as there are more brightly coloured coum varieties too, but in general, the really gaudy ones are the indoor kind. The best way is to buy from a reliable source. Saves a lot of bother
I've never looked at the price @Silver surfer, as I've never bought the indoor ones. I'm actually thinking some would be nice for the house!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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You need coum or hederifolium, not persicum for outdoor use. A good retail outlet should have them correctly labelled. Supermarkets etc often don't
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The pretty indoor, tender ones on sale everywhere just now tend to be cheap.
Often in a pack of 6.
Cyclamen coum and Cyclamen hederifolium are expensive..expect to pay £3.99 per plant for a not very impressive specimen.
In the ground they should get bigger year on year.
Colour isn't really enough of an indicator, as there are more brightly coloured coum varieties too, but in general, the really gaudy ones are the indoor kind.
The best way is to buy from a reliable source. Saves a lot of bother
I've never looked at the price @Silver surfer, as I've never bought the indoor ones. I'm actually thinking some would be nice for the house!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...