Cheap Plants in Lidl

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  1. Bilbo675

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    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.....
     
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      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.
       
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      I went in our local Aldi's a couple of weeks ago when they were selling Rhododendrons and Azeleas. I like Aldi and they usually have good cheap stock for sale, but all these plants were withered, brown, and decidely dead.:cry3:

      I spoke with the Manager and asked why the plants were dead and he told me that Aldi has a "non watering of stock" policy and that all such plants were binned. I couldn't see the point of putting bad stock on display as it doesn't look good to the customer, but to deliberately not water the stock before display knowing that they will die is crackers. They lose sales and the cost of the stock:mad:
       
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      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.:scratch:.

      it must be something to do with some health and safety law :dunno:.
       
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      We'ce got a new Lidl opening nearby next week. Sounds as if it's worth paying a visit!
       
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      I think you're right, Music, about the non watering policy having something to do with Health and Safety, but it doesn't take too much initiative and commonsense to water plants in a warehouse safely. There are still a lot of "jobs worth" Managers around who follow rules rigidly and some real managerial thinking could have saved the plants, and the company they're "working" for a lot of money and image problems.
       
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      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.
       
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      Nicely put, Clueless, and I agree with everything you said {couldn't lend me a fiver, could you?:D:happydance::hapfeet::doggysmooze:]
       
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