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Garden hoarding.

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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In the house, I'm not much of a hoarder but I will confess to two Quality Street tins. One is full of nails and the other is full of screws, bolts and washers - well you never know....I
 It's different in the garden. I allow plants I don't particularly like to spread. I have scores - maybe hundreds of flowerpots but I have no intention of opening a garden centre.
I have decided to try to be good. Pulmonaria with boring leaves  - out. Interesting leaves can stay. Most small flowerpots - out. I prefer to use the multicell containers you buy plants in for seed sowing. Old broken tools that I probably wouldn't be able to fix - out
I have posted this so now I have to do it.
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I don't carry passengers in the garden. 
    If it's not ADDING anything, out it comes
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That is my ultimate aim but it's hard😐
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    B3 
    I have posted this so now I have to do it.
    Looking forward to your before and after photos @B3!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'll show you my pots maybe. You know what boring  leafed pulmonaria look like already. @Plantminded
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • GrannybeeGrannybee Posts: 332
    I was a garden hoarder...till last month. The hedge behind the greenhouse was so overgrown that it shaded the greenhouse too much. Before it could be cut, I had to remove all my pots - almost 1000.  I did not believe it but my young grand-daughter counted them ...  They have all gone now and I feel so much better! I cut the hedge too and we have light! If it hasn't been used for a year, chuck it.
  • EmptyheadtimeEmptyheadtime Posts: 366
    I seem to be hoarding plants. Last year and this year I tried various cuttings to see how successful I could be and divided others. Well I now have a bunch of astrantia/roses/Verbena/salvia/dahlias/ geraniums and god knows what else sitting in pots at various stages. I have no use/space for them but loathed to chuck them away. I try to offload them to anyone who comes to the house with limited success.
  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,527
    I do hoard plants , I agree with Hostafan statement I do that myself but I can't thrown them away .  I give loads of plants away put they just seem to accumulate again . I've got a Rhus in a pot if were off a sucker with barely any rot on it looked very sad nearly dead , anyway its shot off now put I daren't put it in the garden I won't throw it away but I can't give it away either  :D  
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I leave excess rooted cuttings out on the pavement. They soon go. I even got rid of a load of spent primulas. They did have the odd flower left so that helped.
    Black bin collection today so when that's empty, I'm starting on the flowerpots. I might even throw in a few broken hose connectors🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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