Show Us Your Purchases 2023

It's a good job I took my tomatoes out of the greenhouse the other week, because I went to Farmyard nurseries and went a bit mad...



White callicarpa, Acca fellowiana (to pollinate my variegated one), amaryllis belladonna, kniphofia Loki (with a flowering spiranthes that had seeded into it), multiple herbs to send my daughter, salvias omeiana, ulignosa, purple velvet, grevillea Mt Tamborithra, Linaria triornithophora, and a couple of chrysanths - Marion and Jules de something.
Oh dear.
Well a lot of the herbaceous ones were just £2.99, so it seemed rude not to get them...

 

Nice collection @CarolineL

Stop chewing the top of that watering can, I tried to buy a new one of those this year and couldn't find them anywhere.
The foxes have had a chew of mine.

 

Totally understandable ! I've done it several times myself

 

@pete not guilty re watering can! That's the cheaper version of the Haws, and it seems to be breaking up. The more expensive one with the brass end for the rose is made of a much more durable plastic.

 

Couldn't resist this poinsettia. The red colour is deeper than on photo. Love despite my family describing it as if it:
version one - got under the radiation;
version two - builders spilled the paint

 

I got this Adenium obessum today from Germany ... nice and healthy ..


I have another one on the way from The Canary Islands. Both will be 'surprise' colours.
I have bought from both suooliers previously.

 

Seed haul - going for zinnia as the main bedding plant for 2024:

 

You have gone all out on Zinnia @clanless , I grow some called jazzy last year . I believe zinnia resent root disturbance something I didn't know at the time , they still grow but never fulfilled their potential. Think I'll try them again this year.

 

Zinnia seem to like the conditions here, they grew really well last year. There are some cracking varieties around. Im going for coir seed disks this year, pop a zinnia seed in the centre, add water to expand the disk and then let it grow until the whole thing is garden ready. So no disturbing the roots, thats the plan anyway.

 

I've like Zinnias for years, they do better in dryer conditions than a lot of the other bedding plants, I think.
I agree they don't like root disturbance but I think that goes back to the days when we used to grow bedding plants in seed trays and then rip the roots apart at planting time, you can get away with that with a lot of bedding.
I just prick them out into cell trays at the two leaf stage and they transplant ok.

 

I plant them directly into cell trays, then they just go straight into the garden when all frosts stopped. They always do well...sunny spot, clay soil.