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Kristen - thanks for the info on "The Conservatory Gardener". I had never hear of it, but have just ordered one at £0.01 + £2.80 postage. You can't go wrong at that price.

 

I'm pleased with it. Lots of interesting gen on all sorts of plants

I've got carried away with a couple of Topiary books too - really impressed with them. All the ones I've had before have just been coffee-table books with a mish-mash collection of nice photos. These are really well structured with good advice on how-to but also the photos are logically arranged too. I'll dig out the titles tomorrow.

 

The Art of Creative Pruning: Inventive Ideas for Training and Shaping Trees and Shrubs by Jake Hobson
ISBN 160469114X

Well chuffed this this one.

This one interesting about Japanese pruning etc:
Niwaki: Pruning, Training and Shaping Trees the Japanese Way by Jake Hobson
ISBN 0881928356

 

Fatsia Spiders Web, not a great deal of variegation but should be better next year.

 

Got a dwarf fan palm for £3 today from B&Q

 

Today went back to fetch the ensete on reduced further

 

Does that say £1.69? If so that's a right bargain!

I can't match that, but I'm rather pleased with my Anigozanthos "Gold Fever" which was reduced to seven quid from fifteen...................


It's still loaded with blooms.....................


That's about a third of them!

 

Even better it was £1.49
There were another 2 but one of them the stem was snapping right at the base and the other was a lot smaller

 

Well after my bad luck yesterday I had some good luck today.
My last present
http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/show-us-your-recent-purchases.42582/page-49
We deliver to a Garden center in Nottingham and the driver get on with the staff and now have started to save plants that they were going to chuck in the bin



2 x briza media
Snowy wood rush
Syringa
3 x Antirrhinum eternal magneta
Pennistum red button

 

That E Maurelii certainly is a bargain Mowgley and a good specimen, our B&Q only had Basjoos reduced from £10 to£5.

 

No pics, but today I picked up;

10x Camassia cusickii
10x Erythronium pagoda
3x Fritillaria persica

all for £5. All very large bulbs/tubers.

 

Skimmia 'Magic Marlot'


Clearance at B&Q, two mini chrysanths at 10p each and a Coprosma for 50p (had one dead branch).


A larger pink chrysanth for 20p!

 

I bought this on impulse a while back, not sure it was the right thing to do, bearing in mind the conditions it appears to need, but I'll see how it goes next summer hopefully.
Alpinia zerumbet Variegata.

 

I enjoyed reading this article on Alpinia zerumbet Variegata

http://www.cooltropicalplants.com/Alpinia-zerumbet-variegata.html

 

I bought one few years ago, lost it the second year and it was kept warm.
I hope you have better success with yours Pete.