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.

Morrisons have their bulbs in too. I bought the large £3 bags of mixed tulips and daffs plus £2 bags of sherbert and purple-black tulips last year. They all did brilliantly.

I've purchased some snowdrops and alliuns this time!

Will have a nosy at J Parker soon, Shove!

On Thursday Aldi have packs of 6 mixed autumn container plants for 3.99, packs of (10?) autumn bedding plugs for 1.99 and packs of 50 daff bulbs for 2.49.

Also various woodstore tools and accessories plus wine

*allium!

I just came across this weird Parkers wholesale site: www.dutchbulbs.co.uk/. I am going to try to place an order from there later on as I need lots and lots of crocuses (300!) for a feature, and they seem cheaper here than anywhere else I've seen. Will report back if it works!

I'll have to have a look Shove

Aldi update for Thursday 10th - chrysanthemum bushes 3.99, 4pk cyclamen 2.99, assorted spring bulbs from 1.59

Sorry bulbs from 1.39 . Premium bulbs from 3.49

Lidl have their bulbs in, I bought tulips today 10 for £1.29 and Narcissi. Didn't see crocus though.

For those of us in the South East, Squires Garden Centre havea voucher for a bag of free daffodil bulbs in September (excl. Chertsey, here:www.squiresgardencentres.co.uk/vouchers/free-daffodil-bulbs

ohhhh will be off to lidl tomorrow then and stock up on sausages as well

Aldi have packs of bedding plants for autumn - £3.99 for 6, includes a purple heuchera, a cyclamen as well as the usual suspects (viola, ivy).

They also have shredders and log splitters in!

I bought those packs last Autumn, they never really got going till the spring. The cyclamen died but the Heuchera did very well and are now in my borders.

if anyone is still looking for seeds, I have been in Wilkos today, and all their seeds are marked down -they start at 10p

Aldi had packs of purple heuchera when I went in - six for just over £3 if I remember rightly. They're not the most bluey-purple one, nor very mottled, but the slightly more reddish purple plain ones. I would guess 'Palace Purple' but I'm no expert.

Aldi currently have English-grown roses for £1.79 a pop (2 year old plants).

Also cyclamen (£1.99) and winter bedding (pansies, violas) £2.50.

Sorry for the absence!

Just wanted to report that Home Bargains have both solitary bee and butterfly houses in a lovely seagrass colour for the princely sum of £2.99!

I found them amongst the Christmas gift ranges, they're in the gardening one funnily enough

I'm really pleased as I was going to ask for one for Christmas, the ones I'd found online weren't cheap. By then it would be too late to be of benefit this winter.

On that note I bought some whimsical gardening gifts for a family member from the same HB range the other year and they were very well received. Things like enamel mugs, enamel twine tin and cutter, kneeler, retro signs etc.

Poundland website has bee logs for...£1 but I don't have a shop nearby. They're just logs with holes drilled in and a bit of twine to hang them, the kind of thing you could do yourself if you were so inclined, but every little helps!

Gosh I was the last person to post back in October!

Just reporting that Morrisons have some nice plants starting to filter in. Also late spring/ summer bulbs for £2 a pack.

From tomorrow Aldi have fruit trees (£3.49) - 2-year-old grafted trees. Height range 1.2-1.8m. Choose from Apple, Pear, Cherry, Plum or Raspberry in a range of varieties.

• 4pk spring bulbs £2.49 - Add a touch of instant spring colour with these ready-to-flower spring bulb pots. Choose from Tulip Pinocchio, Muscari, Hyacinth or Dwarf Narcissus Tête a Tête.

• Italian herbs in terracotta pots - Quality culinary herbs in an attractive 14cm terracotta pot in a choice of 2 styles. Choose from Mint, Oregano, Parsley, Sage, Lavender, Thyme or Rosemary.

I think there's a gardening event coming up either next week or the week after so will update then.

Thanks so much - have been looking at Aldi's website, but I totally missed this!!

I went to Poundland yesterday and bought loads of peat pots (48 for £1), seed trays with modules (3 for £1) onion setts and six-packs of seed - all a quid. They have scoops, soaker hoses, twine and some godawful ornaments too.

Hi shove!

Ah, the Poundland ornament selection
Have you been in B&M garden zone? It's like poundland on acid

That's reminded me to check whether our crummy 99p stores has converted into a Poundland (my preferred el cheapo gardening range) or closed down since the takeover, thanks!

Oh, oh, oh we soooooooo need a new thread for the most hideous garden ornaments ever created.

Heads to B&M with camera

Bought a tray of 6 primulas/primroses ? for £2 at Morrisons .And some of them look like doubles !

Nice going, gingeroots! I bought two azaelia, a pieris, rhododendron and Hebe for about £5 the other day, yeah!

I've banged on about this in other threads, but Secret Gardening Club are brill. You can become a plant pass holder for just over £10 a year and get access to amazing plant offers. The great thing is that the selection nearly always includes something a bit different from the things you usually see in the discounters etc. I've had 3 orders from them so far and all the plants have been strong.

I just bought 3 x Calamagrostis brachytricha, 3 x Primula japonica 'Millers Crimson', 3 x Primula denticulata 'alba', and 3 x Thalictrum delavayi 'Album'. For £13.50 - that's delivered.

I'm glad you've kept mentioning them holly because I'm v slow on uptake .
That does indeed sound fantastic .am going to have a look !

Courtesy of Hukd, Wickes have a sale on their website of fencecare/ timbercare products. Various colours starting from £1 a tub. Subject to store availability.

SHOPPING KLAXON! SHOPPING KLAXON!

Aldi's Grow Your Own event is the 25th February. RHS Grow your own guides to fruit and flowers £3.99; Greenhouse staging for £15 each (they are really good, I already have two - you can buy a cover for them and make a stand-to greenhouse but it will blow over ); lovely wooden potting bench for £25; electric propagator for £12.99; raised beds for £6.99; and all manner of vermiculite, cloches, propagator trays with inserts, packs of plant pots, oh my giddy aunts there is SO MUCH STUFF!!

I intend to be there the moment it opens!!