All you BARGAIN hunters !!!!!!!!!!CHEAP PALMS

Yesterday in my most local Ikea (Nottingham)I picked up 5 Trachecarpus Fortunei Palms from the "Bargain Corner" they were labelled up �£19.99 each in 3 to 4 or so litre pots. The reduction labels were for �£2 !!!!!! i got 5 (�£100 worth for a crispy tenner!!!) they had been allowed to dry out a little too often and had a few brown leaves. The centers though were lush. a couple of years and these beauties will be looking the business.When a little bigger and weathered off gradually, these palms are reportedly hardy to minus 15 degrees as most of you know, great for t'garden.( as someone on here's saying goes " Live like you are gouing to die tomorrow, Garden like you are GOING TO LIVE FOR EVER")There was plenty left.

 

Don't need any more tracky's got 3 and they are huge 10 footers! I did get a bargain at Bridgemere garden centre near Nantwich though, a Bat plant(Tacca) half price a tener instead of �£20. Bargain the other week was a rubber plant from B&Q 4ft high in pot �£1-50! its already got 2 new leaves opening.

 

I've no bargains to add to this post, but TO....
could you post a pic of your Bat Plant pls?! Is it flowering? Mr Mac & I have been admiring these on the internet for ages, they look bizaar! I thought they'd cost much more than �£20.

 

BekiMac, you can get Tacca seed from Thompson and Morgan. David.