Cheap by nature - gardening offers thread!

[shovetheholly]

To remind myself as much as anything else!

Aldi have vegetable plug plants in tomorrow, £1.99 each. 10 varieties - pictures show broccoli, caulis, tomatoes, peppers. Also, rhodos for £5.99 if they are your kind of thing.

It's so pretty in pink!

Going to check out Aldi's offering later, this is a great thread, getting loads of ideas

Next Thursday (18th) Aldi has outdoor furniture, decor, plants, feed etc. Best to look on the website/ app under Special Buys are there are too many to list

Oh and I got some scented stocks today from Morrison's for £1.50. They had various colours (pastels) and they smell wonderful

Right, I'm off to Morrisons!

Went to Aldi yesterday - didn't buy anything because I already have a wisteria (£10) and lavender (£3.99), but the plants looked in terrific fettle.

Good stuff Shove! Let us know what you buy

Meant to add Aldi will have strawberry or tumbling tomato hanging baskets on the 18th for £3.49 and 4L veg plants for £2.99: Orange/red chilli pepper, yellow/red sweet pepper, yellow/red cherry tomato, aubergine, mini cucumber.

Ooooh, mini cucumbers.

DH and I had the following conversation last night

DH: We could grow cucumber.
Me: I don't like cucumber. When I was a kid, we called it pukey-cucey.
DH: You do like cucumber!
Me: No I don't!
DH: Yes you do! In gin and tonic!
Me: OHHHH YEAAAAH! Let's grow some!

I went to morrisons yesterday and got a beautiful Hosta and something else that will have pink flowers (sorry - can't remember!) for £1.50 each on a 2 for £3. I also got some lovely primula on offer for £1.33. I know they are basically past flowering now but I have a woodland part of my garden which primulas love.
I got a great fuschia for £2 from Tesco. It's really beautiful.
Love this thread!

My DS calls cucumbers 'juicebummers' if that helps your decision to grow them at all!
He's 2!

Teehee mouthful

Aldi have clematis (3.99) and perennials e.g. campanula x2, foxglove, penstemon, delphinium (2.49) this Thursday (9th)

I got a bit carried away and bought twelve trays of bedding plants from Homebase this morning - they were marked down to 20p

I'm confident I can revive about 80% of the plants. Some trays have obviously lost one or two but I don't think I'll complain

Because my dianthus have flowered so profusely (see other thread) I've been in no particular hurry to re-fill my patio containers.

I have trailing lobelia, snapdragons, begonia, impatiens, dahlias, bacopa, petunias and marigolds

Our store had them on a shelving unit adjacent to the front door, as well as in the garden centre at the back.

I LOVE those bargainous trays, Have you seen her. Often it's just a couple that have gone, isn't it?

I know Holly! I was in competition with a couple of elderly ladies for the best pickings I think they were trying to discourage me but I knew better We all ended up with a nice selection though!

I'm holding out for the Wilko and Tesco Direct gardening sales as they were fabulous last year.

Have you had any good bargains lately?

I haven't been shopping for aaaages . I haven't even been to Aldi . I think I am having withdrawal symptoms.

I did, however, order some seeds from Thompson and Morgan last night. They have a kind of sale on all the things that need to be planted in the spring - a lot of them aren't 'marked down', but things that I know cost £2.99 a pack a couple of months back are now selling for 99p. I got some seeds for those huuuuuuuuge Echiums, as they are very fun and I would dearly love a big blue giant in my garden.

Oh fab I remember someone talking about those on here last year and I looked them up, they look brilliant (to illustrate the size/height)

I'm biding my time for the end of the month as my email tells me that's when I did some major garden sale shopping last year

Yes, they are apparently a bit difficult about wet, so I might have to do them in pots to start and move them into the greenhouse over winter or something. They are brilliantly triffid-like!

Oooh, do let me know when the sale start. I am hopeless at shopping and miss things otherwise.

I'll update here as soon as I hear of anything

Premier seeds direct have seeds for 99p -44p delivery and free if you buy 5. My Cucamelon seeds came from there. I'm going to get the rest of my seeds from there in future.

I haven't been to Aldi in ages either, have I missed the watering system does any one know?

I will have lots of Echium seeds if any one wants any, they are easy to grow, send me a pm. :)

A few gardening bits in Aldi on Thursday 16th:

Lavender (6 varieties) 2.49
Chrysanths 1.78
Metal watering can 9.99
Pressure sprayer 2.79
Thermometer/ hygrometer 5.99
House plants 8.99
Glass water globes 3.99

The Yorkshire Trading Company has some bargains on Yorkshire Flowerpots planters, eg £5.99 for the medium Long Tom.

Could you please post a link to those pots, Countess?

Gardeners' World magazine, current edition - 100 alliums for £5.65 postage!

If anyone sees more cheap allium offers, please let me know. I need TONS!

What sort of alliums though shove? You can get 100 Purple Sensation for £12 from J.Parker's wholesale catalogue but minimum order is 25 i.e. £3. You can share an order with friends to make up a more respectable 'wholesale' quantity (somehow I always seem to manage on my own). Pages and pages of gorgeous tulips. Request an autumn catalogue at www.dutchbulbs.co.uk Good bedtime reading...

Don't bother with their plants - disappointing.

OK, you get

• 3 x purple sensation
• 25 x neopolitanum
• 20 x roseum
• 39 x spaerocephalon
• 10 x caeruleum
• 3 x mount everest

It is roughly the same every year, so I buy a load and build up clumps. The bulbs are technically free and the £5 is postage.

I will probably also buy your recommendation of the 100 purple sensation alliums from Parkers (along with loads of other things), because I want big impact from them all the way down one side of the garden. (I already have 40 or so, but it is not enough and I am too impatient!!). I wuvs them.

This company do great competitions for gardeners - this time they're giving away wildlife friendly plants to help hedgehogs.

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