How much will you spend?

As the title says how much are you prepared to pay for a plant/shrub/flower/ ,Until you actually think hang on thats a bit pricey.

I.e Today i brought a musa Basjoo which is a decent enough size but was £25:D.........
and never batted an eye-lid

When the cost gets to about £50 I then come crashing down to earth and think hang on a min.............

What is the most expensive plant/shrub,flower you have purchased and what was it????

This is poll so dont forget to vote................

 

I would prefer to buy a small plant and have the satisfaction of growing it on. Even if it took a couple of years.

 

Same here. I garden because I like to grow things, not buy them ready made

 

I totally understand growing from scratch,but sometimes .......surely you see something at a Garden nursery and say............Ohhhhh yes that belongs or would look fantastic in my garden and buy it???????:p

 

I'd prefer to spend a smaller amount on lots of plants knowing that they'd eventually fill out. So far i've never spent more that £10 on a plant.

I've been tempted to spend more though. :D

 

At the moment about £10 is the most I've spent on a single plant though have come away from the garden centre spending £90 before - my problem is my garden has nothing so needs lots of plants.

At the moment I am considering a bamboo which would be £50 for a 7 foot one or £90 for a 12' one - the issue there it is would be nice to look at a plant rather than my neighbours house and a smaller one would take quite a lot of years to get to the required height....

 

Thats the point i,m probing we all buy stuff but are ashamed to admit it........:p

Thanks for your input men8ifr:thumb:

 

Hmmm, well I think the most expensive bushes I've bought would've been a couple of red cut leaf Japanese maples last year - we got those on a half price deal and so were only 12.50 each. The other day I picked up a Kangaroo Paw (Native Australian plant) for indoors for 8.99 - knowing I'll probably kill it, I thought that was alot. But, I've tried to grow them from seeds sent over, and no success - so thought buying one was well worth it

 

Let's put it this way... I buy quite a lot of seeds: I would probably buy a few plants with the same amount of money !
...but I still prefer to see everything coming up from seed especially now when I know how to get rid of snails...

 

Probably £45 £50 ish although I raerly buy any. Most of the plants in my garden are ones ive been asked to take out by customers and saved or were there before.

 

You Bar-steward Paul,.........................Whats your fav you have been given and anychance of a pic m8

 

A blue spruce that ive since bonsaied in a half barrel, also two nice mature blue berrys.

Loads of iris etc.

Ill get a pic tommorow.

 

Good Man:thumb:

 

I rarely can achieve a visit to the garden centre without buying a plant - but those impulse gotta haves tend to be up to about £10. Mostly I get small plants and grow them on. Occassionally I will search for a very specific plant I want e.g. shrub or tree, and in that case the price is higher - as I have usually researched the specific variety - and may need to get it mail order. Even with postage and packing an individual plant will rarely exceed £30.

But and its a big but, in spring when I go splurging on plants and other gardening bits for infill for the summer and repair - then the total bill that one time could be much higher, especially on a sunny day.

 

Having discovered that the range of seeds available is so much wider (and so much cheaper) than the range of plants available, I would shudder at paying £8 for a plant when you can get 20 plants from a £2 packet of seed.

I think the secret comes from patience and planning ahead, but that probably only comes once your garden is full of plants. You can then afford to have a pipeline, where you sow seeds and are not worried that it may be three or four years before they flower. For every new seed that I sow this year something sowed last year or the year before will have reached maturity and be ready to bloom.