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Actually purchased in May (so fairly recent). Bought a container and filled it with Mazus Reptans and Helianthemum Ben Fhada alpines. The Mazus is a vigorous creeper and forms a trailing mass of stems and foliage with abundant lilac coloured blooms with orange spots at their throats from April to June and again in September. . In winter the foliage turns a burgundy colour. The Ben Fhada blooms (yellow flowers) May to early July with a flourish and occasionally afterwards. Photo taken late May.

 

You'll be overrun by Dwarf cavendish soon Armandii.. I used to have one until I left it outside by accident and it was killed by a +1C frost. It loved rain and humidity though, absolutely loved it.

 

As you can see behind ...my garden in my new house is in need of a lot of TLC. It was full of 6ft weeds so have cleared it all and am going to prepare it for turf soon. I started buying some plants this week and have decided to go for different plants than I have used before. Going for a little exotic planting ie: palms,ferns,hosta etc. But saw these today and could not resist :WINK1:

 

Bought 2 of them for £20 in my local Wyvale garden centre..should have been £30 but got a discount with my gardening clubcard

 

Just ordered rosa Mutabilis online.

 

My local Homebase were selling them the other day when I was in.

Different colours and I was sorely tempted.........

 

been shopping at morrisons and they had these ensetes in. also picked up another canna, dahlia and this that the name i've forgotton already!!

 

That's it tomorrow off to morrisons after fishing!

 

they're a fiver each too. i should of got a couple more, i might even go back tomorrow!!

 

No pictures yet but I've just bought a Canna 'tenerife' off the sale trolley at Wilko's for £2; it's got 3 healthy suckers, has flowered but got two big fat seed pods, so effectively I've got a plant I could split and seeds for a couple of quid

Also bought a pack of 3 small (approx 6") terracota/clay pots from Tesco which are reduced to £1.53 having previously been almost £4..

 

went to carboot .... bargains galore .... bought a few items ...

such as:

a pair of Trident Advantage wellington boots .... hardly worn and for a fiver

fitted one, and perfect fit ...

got home, and my son scrutinized them ...

one is a size nine and one is a size ten???

so, I will be gardening with a 'limp'

 

if you paid a fiver for odd boots you need your head testing. but if they fit, maybe u need your feet testing!

 

so which one was the perfect fit? if it was the 9 you could always shove newspaper in the 10