With me it's always sales , discounts and special offers.Shrubs reduced from £7,99 to 3 for a tenner, bulbs that I don't need but have been deeply discounted, seeds at the end of the season that are never sown.
This year will be different, I shall plant everything straight away.
With me the "sillyness" is concentrated with regard to bulbs!: especially toward the 'end of season' special offers that are just pleading with you to "Buy me & bob me in somewhere that isn't already stuffed with bulbs bought last late winter..." Will I never learn??
No money and now where to plants seeds or plugs. Saving for April when I will be tempted by seeds which you can grow direct in the soil. Always buy too many, thinking I have a garden twice the size ....
Same here Verdun I've got plants in the conservatory two boxes of seeds to plant and I ordered move plants to arrive in April for baskets, I even bought more tubers and lillys but like Blubell I think my garden is twice as big as it is.
And on top of that I haven't got my green house base finished yet
I even said to OH three months ago don't let me buy any more seeds/plants we have lots.
So Verdun your not alone I even have plans to go to new garden center tomorrow just to look (tongue in cheek) but the think is I will be driving past a good orchid garden center (well sort of) it's next to a garage on the A5 so I may nip in there as well
We have an annual "plant sale" in the village so you can donate any spare plants etc. to the Hortsoc, and they sell them for the kitty. This year I will donate my Chrysanths which someone else might give more love and attention to and get better flowers. I have Verbena bo. seedlings rescued from my gravel too.
I'm one - I ordered a 4m walk-in poly tunnel over the weekend to supplement my 10x6 greenhouse and for growing sweet potatoes in. Unfortunately I now need to move one of my gooseberry bushes to fit it in! D'oh!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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With me it's always sales , discounts and special offers.Shrubs reduced from £7,99 to 3 for a tenner, bulbs that I don't need but have been deeply discounted, seeds at the end of the season that are never sown.
This year will be different, I shall plant everything straight away.
That's what my teacher"Mr Gunter"in grade 5 called me.
Bill
A gardener's brain is programmed to see beauty first, buy it second, and only then wonder where the hell are you going to put it.
If it was the other way around you would buy very little.
With me the "sillyness" is concentrated with regard to bulbs!: especially toward the 'end of season' special offers that are just pleading with you to "Buy me & bob me in somewhere that isn't already stuffed with bulbs bought last late winter..." Will I never learn??
No money and now where to plants seeds or plugs. Saving for April when I will be tempted by seeds which you can grow direct in the soil. Always buy too many, thinking I have a garden twice the size ....
Strange how gardens shrink isn't it - I blame all the wet weather
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Same here Verdun I've got plants in the conservatory two boxes of seeds to plant and I ordered move plants to arrive in April for baskets, I even bought more tubers and lillys but like Blubell I think my garden is twice as big as it is.
And on top of that I haven't got my green house base finished yet
I even said to OH three months ago don't let me buy any more seeds/plants we have lots.
So Verdun your not alone I even have plans to go to new garden center tomorrow just to look (tongue in cheek) but the think is I will be driving past a good orchid garden center (well sort of) it's next to a garage on the A5 so I may nip in there as well
Clueless
We have an annual "plant sale" in the village so you can donate any spare plants etc. to the Hortsoc, and they sell them for the kitty. This year I will donate my Chrysanths which someone else might give more love and attention to and get better flowers. I have Verbena bo. seedlings rescued from my gravel too.
I have plenty of friends queuing up for spare flowers and even friends I didn't know I had
Clueless
I'm one - I ordered a 4m walk-in poly tunnel over the weekend to supplement my 10x6 greenhouse and for growing sweet potatoes in. Unfortunately I now need to move one of my gooseberry bushes to fit it in! D'oh!