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What to buy in GC now

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  • OmoriOmori Posts: 1,674
    Have a nosey and see if anything strikes your fancy. You might find a treasure. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Ah! F for🐟!
    Can't use anything like that here😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I would love to buy some bare root plants, particularly roses,  but I find the garden centres bung them in a bit of compost and bump up the price.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    B3 said:
    I don't like coffee😞
    Ok, how about browsing the garden tool section and treating yourself to a new something - go on  - you deserve it and it might make your spring chores more pleasurable. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    B3 said:
    I would love to buy some bare root plants, particularly roses,  but I find the garden centres bung them in a bit of compost and bump up the price.
    Probably best to go and buy a box of rose fertiliser and then go home and order some bare root roses online. Buy gloves. I'm always needing gloves
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Something to plant in a late winter/early spring container to lift the spirits!  Try a hellebore (ones with marbled leaves look good), primroses (only the pale yellow ones!) and a spiller like ivy.  Put it outside the door you use to go into your garden.
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Some pots of iris retic? You can't have too many of those.
  • Just off to our local GC ! On the list is paraffin for the Greenhouse heater , a few metres of good quality Fleece!  ( last years fleece is looking a bit threadbare) to cover our small pots we keep outside on a pebbled area of our garden. Better get a move on we had a brief flurry of Snow this morning. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Garden is full of primroses. Only one helibore. That sounds like a plan. I'll get the rose fertiliser and bird food too. I think I'll pass on the fudge. I've promised myself not to bother with seeds this year but if I see cosmos xanthos, that's another matter. I don't need tools, but my SS fork has developed  tines of an unconventional shape. So maybe, but I have got used to the curve😏 
    Cheesy notelets.? Cheesy drawer liners for the sock drawer, perhaps? Not sure. Lavender scented notepaper might be more the thing.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    So tempting to visit GCs but I'm still in hunker down mode. 
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
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