What's Your Latest Garden Related Bargain?

Who sells canes 8 inches long?

 

Wasn't tempted by any of these:


1) Dead courgettes reduced from 98p to 50p. Some of the pots didn't even have any remains of a dead plant in them!



2) Dead carrots reduced from £1.98 to £1



3) 'Jamie Oliver' Herb Collection - 6 pots of herbs in their final death throes reduced from a ridiculously expensive £7.99 to an even more ridiculously expensive £4.

 

Saw some similar pots in Wilko's (not usual for them though); there were some cranberries in plastic tubes with an open top reduced to half price; only about £1 or so but there was literally nothing remotely alive in it and hadn't been for some time by the look of it....

 

I have been a regular buyer of Morrisons cut flower buckets JWK. Usually 8 for 99p locally - but I have never seen them for free. Well done. They are a good size too.

 

Not seen them free either as they have a reel of tape with the price on especially for bundling them together. I've got all I need now, but when I was keeping an eye out for them I'd save the tape and carry some with me when shopping at Morrisons and if there were enough loose buckets lying around I'd bundle them up myself.

 

I was in Dobbie's today ad they had some marked down trays of hanging basket plants. Some had maybe 1 out of 6 plants dead or dying and the rest OK or could be rescued. They were priced between £1 and £2. Also a tray of 20 mixed pansies and violas (with one or two missing) for £3. I got enough to fill 4 + baskets for £10. Bargain, eh

Sally

 

Got myself 12 cut flower buckets from Morrisons today for 99p after reading the post, thanks

 

Home Bargains had stocked up with more Clematis over the weekend again for £1.79 so I was tempted once more and bought a couple more varities. I now have 7 young Clematis growing on in 2lt pots; I've got plans for them when they've grown on a bit. 7 Clematis for just over £12 is good value in anyone's books, especially when I visited a car boot sale yesterday and saw a stall selling exactly the same ones with a new price sticker over the old one for £3.50!!!

 

My bargain of the month - all free including 208 Primula plantlets. Well not quite all free - I bought the trays a few years ago, but the rest was free.

The pots, and many more were being given away by a local council. They can't/don't reuse them, they can only recycle them. The compost was effectively free, it was from last year's containers. I will of course be feeding the plants as any feed originally added to the compost will be gone. And all the seedlings were free. Normally my Primula self seed very little, but for some reason the conditions this year were absolutely right and I had seedlings everywhere. I had to stop at 4 trays.



This is what they will look like.

 

Two trays of herbs reduced to 30p/tray (fool price £7.99) and 4 out of six OK in each one. Most of the reduced plants at Homebase seem to be unsold, overpriced 'Jamie Oliver' branded ones.

I got about 2,000 3" pots from a neighbour planting mass bedding schemes before I told him I probably had enough for now.

 

They should have sold that courgette on the left for 0.5p.

 

Didn't Prince sing a song about those?

 

Called in to Home Bargains again today; as part of our daily shop (it's only 5 mins away) :D and would you believe they had got even more climbers back in; mainly Clematis again but hidden amongst them were a couple of Jasmine Beesianum, missed them last time so not this time, I snapped one up, again for £1.79......can't loose really - a very healthy multi stemmed young plant

Note to self - Must stop looking down the gardening aisle