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You need a copy of "Instant gardening" by Ivor Dunitall ...

 

Picked up a new bird box today, just couldn't resist for comic value alone, costing just £2.......

 

Hope you brought a pair

 

Salvia coccinea "Lady in Red" for a quid!

 

Hi All,

No pictures but just been to the garden centre to check out the bulbs, but when I got there they have a sale on seeds. So I have brought:

Sweet pea - Night and Day
Petunia
Busy Lizzie
Tomato - Sweet baby
Achillea - Summer Berries
Radish - Scarlet Globe
Pumpkin - Amazonka
Parsnip - Tender and True
Beetroot - Globe 2
Sweet Pea - Pink Cupid (these are ony 20 cm thought they would be nice in pots by seating area)
Sweet Pea - Sugar and Spice (hanging basket variety)
Lobelia - Tupa

All are either Suttons or Thompson and Morgan I paid £8.45 which I thought was a bit of a bargain.

Rusty

 

Picked up an outside toy box for the the little uns, toys now put away til tomorrow..... Much neater.

Oh, and had to buy another kettle, not gardening, but hey, I NEED that cuppa after all the hard work.....

 

Grabbed this out of the bargain bin for three quid today....................

 

Yup - but I'm good with a welder!

 

"fun sponge" as my daughters would say !!

 

Got there from the Dahlia Man in Maidstone Kent, £6.50 for each plant, which includes a large pot as well

 

Homebase were having a mini sale....got 5 Dahlia Dahlietta Becky plants for 90p for the whole lot

I assume that these can be replanted next year from tubers?

 

I think! That the perennial dahlias are tubers, but the annuals are not. I may be wrong though?

 

The "annual" ones I grew had tubers, albeit very small, but I successfully overwintered a couple that I had liked ... there may be other non-tuberous types of Annual Dahlias though?

 

Kilmarnock Willow £2 from B&Q as not too healthy looking, although I chopped off some of the rubbishy bits and I swear today it looks 10 times better already


By theesoog at 2012-08-26