Show us your bargains

Just back from my local garden center and those are few of my after xmas bargains.



2 vriseria £2
3 orchids £3
1 orchid £3
1 mini rose £1
2 sarracenia £2
1 tillandisia £1
2 x glass sarracenia £6

total £18
tatal saved £92

 

Great bargains, sal!

 

Bloomin' awesome cache of treasures you have there Sal,
what is a "Jade Velvet" please? Looks interesting,
Jenny

 

Well, just got back from a nursery that had a big sale on, and bought these:-

2 houttiynia cordata chameleon
1 achillea mollis
Tree peony
2 crocosmia carmine brilliant
1 doronicum little Leo
2 achillea cloth of gold
1 ligularia Britt Marie Crawford
2 cynaro cardunculus
1 miscanthus strictus
1 miscanthus varigata
1 panicum varigatum heavy metal

And I thought I got a bargain sal! Nice 1!!

All for the price of 50 quid!

 

that is a ludisia bicolor alba , it`s an orchids , seen it one on the forum , I think longk had one , now really regret I didn`t get the other 2 , one was almost dark green /black.
never mind.

 

Jealous of you all getting out to look for those little bargains in which large fruits of labour grow. Ours is still flooded out and wont be open for a few weeks yet.

 

Like this one Sal?


This is Jasper Velvet. The flower is identical to Jade Velvet though.................


What are the orchids on the left of your photo Sal?

 

there was that one and a strange one with a single line in the middle .......of course
my missus was there to remind me that already spend too much .......there was
about 30 variety of orchids all for a pound , but some where in a really bad state .....
they must have been there all December with no water at all .

 

My only bargain was a Photinia Pink Marble at the Range £15 down to £6.
I'll have to watch out for reversion although if these are from tissue culture it shouldn't happen.

 

I've wanted a Vanda for years but refuse to pay £30/£40 for one. Stopped of a my local independent nursery and saw this reduced to £9..................




The blooms are a little past their best, but that's ok!