Cheap Plants in Lidl

I popped in to Lidl today for a browse with my wife and came across the usual cheap gardening stuff, nothing that really caught my eye; although they had some healthy looking fruit trees on dwarf rootstock for £5 I think. Anyway I walked round a corner and came across a sign that simply said flowering plants - £1.99 or two for £3; on closer inspection they were Camelia, Passion Flower, Diplandenia, Tibouchina and a couple of other things. They were all roughly 1ft tall young plants and incredibly healthy, no leggy growth or pale leaves, so I bought a couple (a Diplandenia & a Tibouchina); I must say the Camelia looked very very healthy young plants. Two plants for £3, you can't go wrong really.....

 

A bargain Bilbo!

 

There's many a bargain to be looked out for at Lidl, Aldi and Morrisons this time of year.

At least five years ago I paid about £3 for some goldenrod from Lidl. It did well but sadly much of it was lost as collateral damage in The Great Bindweed War or 2008/09, but some root divisions of that same plant are thriving in my dad's garden and my new garden.

 

Hi ARMANDII. Pounstretcher must have the same policy. i have noticed lots of plants as you say decidedly dead ,on display and all they required ( in the past ) was a little water..

it must be something to do with some health and safety law .

 

We'ce got a new Lidl opening nearby next week. Sounds as if it's worth paying a visit!

 

Health and safety laws are quite vague, and don't actually ban many things. The HSE (Health and Safety Executive), the quango that is responsible for enforcing health and safety laws, gets the blame for so many things that they themselves don't agree with. There was a representative from them on telly a couple of years or so ago trying in vain to dispell the myth that they try to ban us from breathing without the necessary certificates.

The problem with 'health and safety' usually comes from either the insurance companies, or jobsworth managers who know nothing and try to hide this fact by pretending to know everything and hoping that nobody questions them.