Show Us Your Purchases 2023

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  1. Perki

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    Plant order arrived today, I forgot about them ordered them last year but didn't pay for them :cry3: . Cost me a small fortune but hard to get plants do cost a lot more . No point in a picture unless you want to look at some compost.
    But I got a
    Pteridophyllum racemosum looks like a fern but its not has nice white flowers in spring

    Razonia japonica looks like a tall pink hellebore

    Anemonopsis macrophylla Alba .
     
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      I bought a stick yesterday. Actually, it's more of a twig. It came from the pound shop so guess how much it cost? Wrong, it was two quid!
      Apparently, it's a raspberry cane
       
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        Galanthus "Mightymoor"
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        Galanthus elwesii "Rosemary Burnham"
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        • CarolineL

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          Nice galanthus @NigelJ . I am trying to stop buying any more varieties - I've got 8 or 10 I think - surely enough...
           
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            You'd both love our local gardening club meeting next Friday...a talk about and sales of ...snowdrops :biggrin: With prices starting at €8 per bulb, though, it'll be strictly 'look and don't touch (or buy)'.
             
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              I'm in a similar position, the ones I've got recently are distinctly different to those I have already.
               
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              @noisette47 - ouch! I have seen some very silly prices online, for snowdrops that are not that different. I'm going to visit a specialist garden for them in next couple of weeks. They have some for sale - priced between £3.50 and £7, but usually multiple bulbs per pot. I must resist...
               
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                Bought some double begonia tubers today. I'll start them off next month and prop the first dozen stems or so to increase stock, then do some leaf cuttings later in the year
                 
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                  I bought these today at Wilko, cost £6.
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                    I bought these today from Wilko.

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                    • Victoria

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                      Love the colours and particularly like the Gladioli.
                       
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                        Thanks...surprisingly coordinating for me!!!
                         
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                          A few of the 'Free' un-named Dahlias from J Parkers; they look good & healthy.
                          Arrived 31/1/2023

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                            Seed potatoes received from Jamieson Brothers 30/1/2023
                            Some of the Charlotte are a tad tiny
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                              Went to Morrison's in order to buy matchsticks to fight the gnat/ fruitfly pestilence that is soon to start with all the seed sowing going on.

                              In the end I didn't get matches. :biggrin:

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