It's really interesting to hear everyone's feedback. On balance it would appear that the overriding view is that inexpensive plants bought from supermarkets / pound shops can be great value- if you are prepared to put a bit of work in. Living in Surrey / London where in most average nurseries a plant will set you back on average 4.99 - 8.99 this is great news! I will continue rummage!
Morrisons used to be a happy hunting ground for me but this year they have converted their canopy into a mini garden centre and prices have gone up to pay for it. However they are still cheaper than the average garden centre and fruit trees at £5 were less than Wilkinsons and Tesco! I find markets are worth keeping an eye on as well but if you can obtain cuttings there is a definite sense of achievement when planting out in the border. I have even been given seeds when passing gardens and admired owners plants.
I have bought dahla tubers from the pound shop for the past couple of years and have jut been in for more I bring them on in the greenhouse and they do well
Haggled over a sorry looking,bare rooted 6ft Rowan tree in Aldi a few weeks ago. Got it for £3. Gave it a good soak before planting, dug a generous hole with added muck, staked, watered and mulched it and tah dah - now in leaf and looking great.
Oh I get so much satisfaction and pleasure from such a buy!
I bought 1 summer fruiting raspberry cane from a boot-fair four or five years ago for £1 and now have 30 largest canes ready to fruit this year. Its rampant stuff!
Today I bought four boxed perennials from B&Q at a reduced price of 50p each! Since I have a nicely filled garden and am currently on a budget (I brought a total of 8 different plants for £12) I can indulge in the sickly specimens as well as propagating single specimens to my heart's content, patiently awaiting their splendour in two or three years which is fine by me because it takes me that long to place them!
and dont forget to divide any perennials that you buy, before potting on...ok it will set back the growth of the plant but by dividing and repotting first you at least increase your yield to four times and they benefit from this so much....also sweetpea pots are usually several baby plants...you can get such value for money by potting each seedling on
Aha, maybe I am missing a trick by not growing on poundland plants in pots first. I'm having mixed success with my purchases. Forsythia romping away, iris coming up but no sign of life from the anenomes or lilly-of-the-valley I put into the borders. The climbing rose I bought was zapped by frost and I think it's dead.
I live in a rented house and because of this am reluctant to sink too much money into someone else's garden. I'm fairly new to gardening, but I've been having a reasonable amount of success with cheap plants. Reduced stuff from B&Q or Homebase seems to do ok - I've got some nice heathers that I got 6 of for 50p, and very rapidly growing African violet in the house that was nearly dead when I bought it. I'm also seeing the first batch of Poundland summer bulbs and seed mixes starting to come up. My Poundland sweetpeas are doing brilliantly! As previous posters have said, Morrisons seem to be quite good for cheap stuff.
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Morrisons used to be a happy hunting ground for me but this year they have converted their canopy into a mini garden centre and prices have gone up to pay for it. However they are still cheaper than the average garden centre and fruit trees at £5 were less than Wilkinsons and Tesco! I find markets are worth keeping an eye on as well but if you can obtain cuttings there is a definite sense of achievement when planting out in the border. I have even been given seeds when passing gardens and admired owners plants.
I have bought dahla tubers from the pound shop for the past couple of years and have jut been in for more I bring them on in the greenhouse and they do well
Haggled over a sorry looking,bare rooted 6ft Rowan tree in Aldi a few weeks ago. Got it for £3. Gave it a good soak before planting, dug a generous hole with added muck, staked, watered and mulched it and tah dah - now in leaf and looking great.
Oh I get so much satisfaction and pleasure from such a buy!
I bought 1 summer fruiting raspberry cane from a boot-fair four or five years ago for £1 and now have 30 largest canes ready to fruit this year. Its rampant stuff!
Today I bought four boxed perennials from B&Q at a reduced price of 50p each! Since I have a nicely filled garden and am currently on a budget (I brought a total of 8 different plants for £12) I can indulge in the sickly specimens as well as propagating single specimens to my heart's content, patiently awaiting their splendour in two or three years which is fine by me because it takes me that long to place them!
Hi, I have had a lot of success with bulbs- daffodils, hyacinths and tulips bought from Wilkinsons and their prices are very good.
and dont forget to divide any perennials that you buy, before potting on...ok it will set back the growth of the plant but by dividing and repotting first you at least increase your yield to four times and they benefit from this so much....also sweetpea pots are usually several baby plants...you can get such value for money by potting each seedling on
Aha, maybe I am missing a trick by not growing on poundland plants in pots first. I'm having mixed success with my purchases. Forsythia romping away, iris coming up but no sign of life from the anenomes or lilly-of-the-valley I put into the borders. The climbing rose I bought was zapped by frost and I think it's dead.