Show us your gardening purchases 2025

Very wise, you need to make the most of the postage cost @Michael Hewett .

 

That's true, and that's why I sent for the Narcissi, the postage cost was more than the Tulips on their own, but it wasn't too bad with the Narcissi included.

 

This aeroponic propagator arrived today, I mentioned on a thread a while back and that I wasn't going to bother but I did . It's quite a chunky thing, got quite a few plants to test out in it.

 

What do you think is worth trying @Perki? Have you got some tricky ones that might benefit?

 

Before we went away last week to Porthcawl for a few days we went to our favourite nursery run by a ‘proper plants Lady ‘ and bought one red and one white ‘saxifraga ‘ Dancing ladies new to us ready for 2 Winter planters £4.00 for the two Bargain !!

 

Nothing particular difficult except for maybe a salvia atrocyanea which I were told is a bit trickier than normal salvias , I am hoping it will also increase the % of cutting that strike. I tend to forget about cutting I am hoping this will sustain them until I remember

 

This morning I received two erigeron that I had ordered from Knoll Gardens, and I planted them during my lunch break. They seem very healthy and have a good root system.

 

We went to buy some cheese and ended up with Strelitzia nicolai at Asda for £15. Didn't realise it was the "white" bird but so pleased.....but could be many years for flowering if it does. Still pleased with our purchase.
ps we didn't get the cheese we wanted!

 

I've just struggled to get mine back into the conservatory, its touching the roof now.

 

@pete has it flowered yet

 

Oh dear walking past a Florist in Porthcawl on Saturday and look what caught my eye ! It’s sitting on my mantle piece now

 

No I very much doubt it will flower, they get very big before flowering, its pretty much a tree.

 

We gave ours away to a friend as it got too big. It never flowered. Out friend got a digger to dig a hole for it.

 

We gave ours away to a friend as it got too big. It never flowered. Our friend got a digger to dig a hole for it.

 

Here is one in the ground next to a friend's place, I was taking the picture from the second floor ...