re aldi i bought a lilac 2 years ago, it's looking healthy, grown well, hoping I may see flowers this year?... but then again I bought a rose with the label 'pink favourite' .. it was most certainly not that, it was a pretty little single rose, oh well, I should stop buying roses ( this is clearly never going to happen)
They say you should never go food shopping when you're hungry so you don't 'over buy' but that doesn't work at all for plants . My last one was a particularly good value escallonia last autumn which I never got round to potting on and the poor thing turned it's toes up during the winter. I've no idea what I was going to do with it so I think it must have been fate. Oh, hang on, I don't believe in fate.
Micro, I have found lidls shrubs generally good, but with minimum - to - no cultivation information.
I'm very dubious about buying their bulbs and corms as a couple of times they've been mislabelled and not just the variety. I've planted tulips that have turned out to be irises. Dahlias the wrong colour etc.
I bought some bare root perennials they other day. They appear to be alive. I've planted some horizontally as I can't tell which way is up!
I was in my local Aldi this morning. They had various well grown and beginning to flower Clematis montanas in large pots (2 or 3 L) for £4.99, a good price I thought for such well grown healthy looking plants. I did not succumb as I do not need another montana but someone might.
Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
DyersEnd, I've found that you should never go shopping for anything when you're hungry and in my case it does include plants. So I usually first head for the garden shop cafe when I get there...
I can't resist named lavender cultivars. But I'm getting better at not buying plants. (Though I'm planning a GC crawl on holiday this summer...)
I was browsing our local Aldi, in particular their fruit trees and I noticed all their citrus (lemon, kumquat and limonchello?) are marked 'not edible'!
took littlies to local city farm today, I can manage them on my own there as not too big and playground small with less chance of accidents than most...and it has a garden centre! I bought a blackcurrant, a geranium pratense( blue and white speckled can't remember name, and I thought I picked up a white allium christophii but haven't got it when I got home, will have to return... maybe I should get2...
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re aldi i bought a lilac 2 years ago, it's looking healthy, grown well, hoping I may see flowers this year?... but then again I bought a rose with the label 'pink favourite' .. it was most certainly not that, it was a pretty little single rose, oh well, I should stop buying roses ( this is clearly never going to happen)
They say you should never go food shopping when you're hungry so you don't 'over buy' but that doesn't work at all for plants
. My last one was a particularly good value escallonia last autumn which I never got round to potting on and the poor thing turned it's toes up during the winter. I've no idea what I was going to do with it so I think it must have been fate. Oh, hang on, I don't believe in fate.
Micro, I have found lidls shrubs generally good, but with minimum - to - no cultivation information.
I'm very dubious about buying their bulbs and corms as a couple of times they've been mislabelled and not just the variety. I've planted tulips that have turned out to be irises. Dahlias the wrong colour etc.
I bought some bare root perennials they other day. They appear to be alive. I've planted some horizontally as I can't tell which way is up!
I was in my local Aldi this morning. They had various well grown and beginning to flower Clematis montanas in large pots (2 or 3 L) for £4.99, a good price I thought for such well grown healthy looking plants. I did not succumb as I do not need another montana but someone might.
DyersEnd, I've found that you should never go shopping for anything when you're hungry and in my case it does include plants. So I usually first head for the garden shop cafe when I get there...
I can't resist named lavender cultivars. But I'm getting better at not buying plants. (Though I'm planning a GC crawl on holiday this summer...)
I was browsing our local Aldi, in particular their fruit trees and I noticed all their citrus (lemon, kumquat and limonchello?) are marked 'not edible'!
Apparently some shops put that on daffs as people were eating them.
That being said, I lost a bunch and found them where my husband had put them in the salad drawer of the fridge
Lidl today bedding plants, geraniums and fuchsia not much rooms for them.
Have bought lots from there lately and they're all good. bought the lilac like someone got from aldi £7.99 it's leafing up well
the bedding plants look like rununcula very nice,
took littlies to local city farm today, I can manage them on my own there as not too big and playground small with less chance of accidents than most...and it has a garden centre! I bought a blackcurrant, a geranium pratense( blue and white speckled can't remember name, and I thought I picked up a white allium christophii but haven't got it when I got home, will have to return... maybe I should get2...