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'Rescue' plants

Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
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I posted about this topic a while back - basically garden centres not watering properly, then selling half dead plants off cheap. I bought this frazzled stick in a pot for about 50p, because I'm a sucker for them, lol, and two years on it just gets more muscly! Top stem is 3ft. I was worried the bamboo would crowd it out.. 😄

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited September 2022
    @Slow-worm Think you will have to point it out on the photo maybe I need a trip to the opticians. I can see bamboo and a hardy Fuchsia?
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    🤣 Yes, it was the fuchsia, although barely recognisable but for the label on the pot! 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Slow-worm A 50p bargain! I did buy a large pot of Salvia Caradonna last week for £3.00 not such a bargain but I am pleased. People who love gardening are always keen on saving plants. We all love the challenge.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Absolutely! I get all happy when something crispy goes green again. Not only do we like a challenge, we're easily pleased too!
  • HeartinthedirtHeartinthedirt Posts: 300
    Just tried to buy a half-dead house plant in Aldi that was still at full price. They wouldn't reduce it cos they can get their money back if it doesn't sell, even if it's dead. 😒
    It's knowing what to do with things that counts - Robert Frost
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    I have decided to go back to the GC where I bought my bargain stick to see if they have any in stock with labels. It is so infuriating as I know when I see the name I shall remember it. I know it is not a run-of-the-mill tree which is why I thought it was such a bargain. The business has changed hands so I suspect also their stockists which will scupper my attempts to work out what I have planted in my garden.
    The flowers are white, single, about the size of a periwinkle, scented, and like an oversized buttercup type. The leaves are leathery, dark green, and ovoid but I must go and check which form they grow in.
    Not much help, now I am on a mission to identify it.
    I always check the hospital corner of any GC I visit, I cannot resist resuscitating dead and dying green things. A friend gave me a yellow leaved camellia plant as a leaving present when I moved away. She was convinced I would be able to sort it out. I still have it, it has flowered every year in Oct./Nov. it is going strong with green leaves now, with special memories attached about the friend who gave it to me.
  • Robert WestRobert West Posts: 241
    Bought 20 sedums and grasses last autumn from a garden centre that obviously didn't want to bother overwintering them. Quid each. All of them look fantastic now. Probably got £100 worth of plants for £20. 
  • AngelicantAngelicant Posts: 130
    @Joyce Goldenlily are you thinking of Oleander?
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    I bought a magnolia stellata from Morrisons. It was two twigs in a 9cm. pot and cost £1 - 2. It's about eight feet tall now.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Joyce Goldenlily said:
    I have decided to go back to the GC where I bought my bargain stick to see if they have any in stock with labels. It is so infuriating as I know when I see the name I shall remember it. I know it is not a run-of-the-mill tree which is why I thought it was such a bargain. The business has changed hands so I suspect also their stockists which will scupper my attempts to work out what I have planted in my garden.
    The flowers are white, single, about the size of a periwinkle, scented, and like an oversized buttercup type. The leaves are leathery, dark green, and ovoid but I must go and check which form they grow in.
    Not much help, now I am on a mission to identify it.
    I always check the hospital corner of any GC I visit, I cannot resist resuscitating dead and dying green things. A friend gave me a yellow leaved camellia plant as a leaving present when I moved away. She was convinced I would be able to sort it out. I still have it, it has flowered every year in Oct./Nov. it is going strong with green leaves now, with special memories attached about the friend who gave it to me.
    Could it be Hoheria?

    https://www.google.com/search?q=Hoheria+sexstylosa+'Snow+White'&client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=ALiCzsZqf2Xt3e97_bj0tFWbqpnQMHuzWw:1664144446437&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiMwdaU_bD6AhVEoVwKHW6GC1AQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1280&bih=595&dpr=1.5
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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