Dobbies sale

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  1. Sheal

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    Dobbies in Inverness will be closing on 21st December.

    I've always found them overpriced in comparison to other garden centres, but today I picked up a Choisya Ternata 'Sundance' for £9 in a 3 litre pot - a 30% discount.

    Edit: Other plants have a 50% discount.
     
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      Thanks for the info. Our local one is closing too. Maybe worth actually checking them out for a change. As @Sheal says they are normally overpriced to start with.
       
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        £9 for an easily propagated shrub sounds expensive to me...but I'm tight. I'd roam the streets looking in peoples gardens for a plant I wanted, then knock on the door and ask to exchange cuttings....but like I said, I'm tight
         
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        I actually doubt there will be much available. There is another Dobbies about 20 minutes drive up the motorway so I suspect most excess stock will be moved to there.
         
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          That's all very when there's time to propagate and wait for them to mature enough to plant out. Having moved house recently I need plants now not in three years.
           
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          Why do the plants we want, grow slowly and the weeds we don't want, grow fast? Nature has a wicked sense of humour!
           
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            It does @ArmyAirForce. :biggrin: And you can guarantee the day you need to do something outside is the day it rains. My weather seems to have a habit of waiting for me to finish doing necessary things indoors, attiring myself in the right gear, and then opening the heavens two minutes after setting foot outside. :doh:
             
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              In addition to Sheal's, you need space for all these pots and someone who cares for them in these years. £9 is too cheap for that.
               
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