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Your recent gardening buys.

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  • darren636darren636 Posts: 666
    What part of the country are you Verdun?



    I went to my local nursery in fordingbridge,

    Always great prices and less common varieties, such as clematis fargesiodes and ternifolia-- amongst the chaos !
  • darren636darren636 Posts: 666
    Ahh, many fond memories of bude, trebarwith strand and many others.
  • Hi All, Wilko manue 50L for ??4. Daffs and Tulip from B&Q ??1 ????

    Love their chicken manure pellets too
  • darren636darren636 Posts: 666
    Some decent plants at Morrison's.

    Lots of climbers , hostas , even apples trees
  • TootlesTootles Posts: 1,469

    i bought some wood and we made a raised bed. I love it! looks fab and so much better than the ones I've bought ready done. First time going to a proper timber merchants. what a great place. So friendly and helpful.  Love the characters that were in there too.  It was like learning a new language. One old chap taught us that it's 2 'be' 4, and never 2 'by' four. Brilliant place. AND they sell compost.... Four 60l bags for £11! Bargain! It's by Dunstons who, we were told, are west country and very good. Bought 8 bags. Here is before and after...

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     Will be getting netting to grow the peas and beans up. Bit worried birds might fly into it so might get some kiddies windmill things to put on it for a bit until the plants get going.

  • darren636darren636 Posts: 666
    If you keep the netting nice and tight, birds should be OK
  • TootlesTootles Posts: 1,469

    Thanks Verdun. Yep, it was brill. I'll definately be going back. I actually like that it opens early on a saturday and closes at 12, and closed on a Sunday.  Makes for having to be very organised. Guess I just like thing how they were when I was growing up. 

    Thanks Darren. We have so many birds here (our lane is called Sparrow Lane) that I'd hate for them to get tangled. We've had a few fly into the glass of the greenhouse so I have bunting that I hang in there now.

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