On the promesse de fleurs site that you quote the 2L to 3L pot costs just under 11€ and the cheapest postage rate is just under 6€ which makes a total of 17€ or about £15 incl. postage. I think it's not fair to count the post for a single item when comparing online shopping, as usually one would purchase several items to minimize postage costs.
@LeadFarmer I have Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Pointe du Raz’, which is very similar. I grow it in a medium-size pot at the top of my garden stairs. I lost a first specimen (after one year only) in the winter of 2016-2017, bought and planted a new one in the spring of 2017 which is alive and well at the moment, admitedly not very vigorous. Here's a pic taken today.
I have a wall in my garden that separates it into two halves, and it has a planting void at the top between the two courses of stone, I think it might look nice drooping down the wall as a back drop to the pond. This aspect of the wall is sough facing so should be ideal..
I grow it; bought a couple of plants about 6 years ago from a local nursery; cost at the time was I think 2 for £5. Sounds like £20 is way too much even with inflation. It's grown really well in my 'Mediterranean' garden, so called because it's in Southern England in a sunny spot in a sandy bed especially made for Mediterranean plants. Sadly I lost it this past winter in that very cold spell we had before Christmas but fortunately I had dug up some rooted trailers and potted them up to overwinter in my cold frame. My opinion is it's a great plant but not as hardy as the usual rosemary, which survived in my garden in aforementioned cold spell.
I think it would be fine in there Leadfarmer, although a small 9cm pot would probably spread it’s roots out faster and establish better than a bigger pot, especially if the planting space is fairly narrow, as it seems..
Hopefully it will grow the right way there too - here’s another prostrate one just coming into flower. It stubbornly insists on climbing up the wall behind rather than trailing down the front of the raised bed..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I have a wall in my garden that separates it into two halves, and it has a planting void at the top between the two courses of stone, I think it might look nice drooping down the wall as a back drop to the pond. This aspect of the wall is sough facing so should be ideal..
Looking at just part of your garden, I would say that you have other priorities. You could wait awhile to source a plant bon marché
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I have a wall in my garden that separates it into two halves, and it has a planting void at the top between the two courses of stone, I think it might look nice drooping down the wall as a back drop to the pond. This aspect of the wall is sough facing so should be ideal..
Looking at just part of your garden, I would say that you have other priorities. You could wait awhile to source a plant bon marché
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On the promesse de fleurs site that you quote the 2L to 3L pot costs just under 11€ and the cheapest postage rate is just under 6€ which makes a total of 17€ or about £15 incl. postage. I think it's not fair to count the post for a single item when comparing online shopping, as usually one would purchase several items to minimize postage costs.
Great picture @Nollie!
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."