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garden center reduced price damaged plants
Quite proud of the fact that 80% of my plants/flowers in my garden are garden center rescue plants. Either they are over-watered, dried out, or generally in poor condition. I have 5 rosebushes, all 1/4 of the original price as to big for their containers, lots of bedding plants that have re-flowered this year, after I potted them over winter. The other 20% are free plants from the seed heads from my bargains.
Does anyone else 'Rescue' plants, and have had success? I find that the over watered ones benefit from being wrapped overnight in newspaper before planting out.
My nephew calls our trolley "The Plant Ambulance" and our days shopping as "Rescue Missions" 
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I always trawl through the reduced plants to see if there is anything worth rescuing. Also pot bound plants such as grasses can be a good buy because they can be divided.
I very rarely buy plants (and everything else) at full price! I just love bargains, I'm always looking in the reduced section, and most of the plants have done really well.This year my best bargain has to be my tree peony for a quid!
The casualty dept of B&Q is my first port of call and feel cheated if I don't come away with something
my garden gets filled with resuscitate d plants last week I only found a pack of 6herbs for 10p 
and when I went through the checkout with my diamond card the computer gave me discount
watered and trimmed they look really good in my new herb box . Yes that's what I call a result
Take a look at this rose i got with a sticky label
Its got five more blooms now and its perfume
think it's called rapsody in blue
That's a stunning rosre, and scented too!
I grabbed an apple tree for £6 as they had snapped a lower branch off, which was one which needed to be removed anyway!
if they don't know, I'm not telling! 
My Fryers and David Austin Roses were all £1 each, they are slowly coming into flower now, so will post pictures soon. Only one died as that was too far gone, it was a patio rose.
yes very much guilty of this (as Verdun can clarify this doesn't always pay off for me as I've picked some questionable bargains this week).
I do sometimes get cross with myself as I have this idyllic notion that i'm planning and designing my garden and then the rescue plants have to be squeezed in and change the plan and design.
I do take great delight in showing my husband last years rescue plants (which I sneak into the borders when he's not looking) which are now blooming beautifully and only cost a few pounds
when i had my first garden and had gone to the garden centre i spied their compost rubbish heap with two tree on iit, i asked i i could have them and they said yes (free) and both went onto grow perfectly well.
WillDB that's how I acquired most of my lavenders, a lot of the staff thought they were dead, and they were just storing themselves away for winter. End of season is the best time, or Spring is also good for bulbs. I've had hundreds of bulbs that were potted up in fancy basket's and containers - but the early spring brought them on too quick for Easter/ mothers day, so got them reduced to sill prices. Free baskets as well to plant up for summer!