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I always love reading this thread seeing what other folk have bought!!

Val

 

I promised myself no more Rhododendrons but I couldn't resist this one and had to buy it cos it's quite rare and stunning.
Rhododendron Bergie Larson



Now where the hell am I going to put it?

 

From Lidl today I bought Tricyrtis hirta - two rhizomes for 99pence..........................

They also had Rhodies for £4.99. They looked good to my untrained eye..............

 

Went to a garden centre today. Came back with Buddleia Pixie White. I really like the look of it in a white pot.





Also bought more compost.

 

Ordered some giant Fuchsias online (click on links):

Tuonela
Purple Rain
Cecile
Peachy
Orange King
Flying Scotsman



Also ordered:

Petunia mini famous double yellow
Petunia mini famous double dark red
Begonia tuberous illumination Golden Picotee

Gonna have some hanging baskets out front this year - best get my drill out.

 

Not come across babyplants.co.uk before, people on here speak highly of Fuchsias from www.otherfellow.co.uk - although they don't have any of the varieties you mentioned ... or their search doesn't work!!

 

I have used those before Kristen but as you say, they didn't have the varieties I mentioned.

Managed to check out so should be arriving Monday.

 

Cheaper too

 

Been to B&Q to buy some hanging baskets and slow release ericaceous feed. Ended up buying another six plug Fuchsias (6 for a fiver), a couple of trailing Verbena, grass seed and three Dahlia 'Crazy Love' (from Morrisons).

 

Garden Centre closing down sale:

8" Pots 5p each.
10" Pots 10p
Stewart window boxes £1
18 pack canes £1
Ring culture 'pots' 75p/pack
Horticultural sand £1
JI Compost £1
Half trays pack of 10 £1 (see note)
Franchi seeds 50p pkt
T&M Seeds 75% off
Fungicides 75% off
Window box brackets (sturdy painted steel) 40p pair
Etc., etc.

I rarely sow a whole tray with all the same variety of seeds, and even if I do I'll sow in 2 half trays sitting in a full size tray so I can prick out half a tray at a time, and consolidate all the half trays into full size ones to maximise use of greenhouse space.

 

My Rhododendron is out of stock and not likely to be in until Autumn

Will have to try and find it elsewhere - Millais do it but they are out of stock too. Oh well, might be one to buy in Autumn for next year.

 

Bought :
rhaphiolepis x del enchantress
Californian lilac
Mexican orange blossom
4 bulbs of lily 'big brother'
20 bamboo sticks for sweet pea
Erin's compost 3x
Manure


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Went to Bents and bought a couple of bags of ericaceous compost, two american lounge chairs (with free folding table), a hanging basket bracket and three fuchsia plugs:

Wendy's Beauty
Heidi Ann
Blue Mirage.

 

4 boxes in the hall arrived today from Buckingham Nurseries. Can't remember what I ordered now ... although, typically for them, they have short shipped a couple of items "out of stock" and as I had placed my orders with multiple suppliers at the same time, based on price, size and availability, I don't have an (affordable) means of buying the missing items elsewhere. In this day and age its a disappointment that they don't have their website hooked up to their stock computer to only sell what they have in stock. (Its happened to me on several (large-ish) orders over the last couple of years with them, so not an isolated incidence, and the structure of the way that such an out-of-stock message is bolted-on to the Order Confirmation, with a list of plants, means it is easy to miss, and sometimes it has required me to make a positive response for the order to be shipped at all - which could easily be missed). Seems to me that hey are better at growing and selling plants at a good price and quality than they are at managing a stock control system!

Got some fruit trees from Deacons and they are short shipping too <Sigh!> although in their case they say that is because the plants are not still dormant - which is indeed conceivable this early-season year.