I find that b&m often have some bargains, and their plants are properly labeled if - and only if - you look very closely at the tiny supplier label rather than the store label. I picked up a lot of c coum, 3 for £5 last week. Of course it's pot luck what they have in stock, but the store I go to seems to regularly reduce and swap out the their plants. It's as though they have limited space and continual deliveries, so anything from more than a few weeks ago gets significantly reduced.
They're a bit slow off the mark. The one I went to a fortnight ago was all set up. Outdoor room stuff and ridiculously expensive barbecues and fire things put away for another year
Here in Paris region the GCs and diy shops are full of those hideous heathers. I actually had a rather heated discussion with one of our head gardeners here at Disney about the sprayed stuff a couple of years ago. For our 25th anniversary they “planted” loads of blue and silver houseleeks, they all died within weeks. Shush a horrible waste as they could not even be composted because of the paint.
he’s gone and we now have a policy of responsible plant selection and soil management.
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
Sorry but I very much doubt that B & Q would be selling C.coum or C. hederifoilium.
No way! I got a cyclamen last year from B&Q/Homebase for £1 and it was flowering, it's been in the ground all year and it's still alive, but not flowering yet. This year I got 3 plants for 50p each because I was impressed with last year's display.
The plant passport on the label says GB21308 ALN S3. Search results don't tell me anything.
I've often been given flower arrangements for Christmas and birthdays which include cyclamen. Once the arrangement has lost its sparkle I plant out the cyclamen and now have drifts of them in various parts of the garden. Similarly mini roses have done well for me.
The exceptions prove the rule. Sometimes the microclimate of a garden can make unlikely survivors out of tender plants. I have a massive osteospermum that survived through the mild winter and has been flowering all the way through to now. A nice surprise to have 😉
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
he’s gone and we now have a policy of responsible plant selection and soil management.