Last year I found a Brunnera 'Jack Frost' for $9 and I thought that was a pretty good deal. This year, I'd have to say my best bargain was my first hosta trade with ViolaAnn. Nine new hosta for me!
I also made it to the 50% off sale at a nearby nursery for another hosta haul.
How about you? What was your best bargain this season?
Sandy
Best bargain this season?
echoes
Nov 23, 2005
I got two or three Hellebores for about 7.00 ea. for my parents garden. Some nice small Morden/Explorer roses for 4.00 ea. Not real bargains but good buys.
$4 for a rose? Wow. I'd say that's a bargain!
Sandy
echoes
Nov 23, 2005
Well, in a way. They do their own cuttings at this nursery and by August they are well established. Will be a couple of years before it is much of a shrub, but I might see a few blooms next year.
I got a Eucalyptus tree for half price, because my favourite nursery was moving into town!
Hi.
Someone contacted the horticultural society in early April, indicating that they were giving away ostrich ferns to make way for grass in their back yard. When we got there, we couldn't believe it: ostrich ferns by the hundreds were going to be buldozed under if we didn't get them out of there. It was still very early in the season and the "fiddleheads" hadn't sprouted yet. They really looked like pineapples sticking out of the ground (minus the prickly bromeliad top).
I got a whole pick-up truck load of huge ferns for free. I only had to dig them up. As Martha would say: it was a good thing because I love ferns and I have a lot of shade areas where nothing else would really grow. They were promptly replanted and this is the result on June 8th: 3 to 4-foot ferns all over the place. Woo-Hoo!
Sylvain.
This summer the university I work at put out the news that, due to the upcoming construction of a new building, one of the display gardens had to be removed. I hauled home enough full-size mature plants to completely populate a brand new garden area, and most of them were in the 50 cents to 1.00 price range. I think I paid 2.50 for my voodoo lily - the most expensive plant I bought. LOL I even got some freebies 'cause I was such a good customer this year.
--Ginny
When I retire, I'm gonna hunt bargains. For now, my best bargain was my half of the Hosta Exchange. I think I got the better end of the deal at 11 hostas. I may try for a hosta exchange with my back fence neighbour (or she might just divide some of hers), but they aren't labelled; so we might have to start a new thread to identify them.
Two great bargains -- wandered into Home Depot in search of paint and found three Meilland Romantica roses (Traviata, Abbaye de cluny, Rouge Royale) being remaindered for 5 bucks each. Dolly Parton was there too and wanted to come home, so I said ok.
Then in White Rock I found a table of perennials being ousted for 75 percent off. Got hardy begonias, sanguisorba, gentiana acaulis and one other thing I'm not remembering,, then, when I went up to the till, there was a further 15 percent off for "customer appreciation day"
I went home happy.
M
I also was at home depot last night, I got 4 african violets for 97cents each. They were looking bedraggled, I gave them a good soak last night and this morning they look pretty good. I cut off any broken leaves and put them on the kitchen window sill, look great all lined up there.
Cindy
Well Sandy, I'd have to say my best bargain was a bunch of free brug cuttings from a lovely gal in Port Hope, Ontario. They were going to end up in the dump if no one wanted them so here I am learning all about brugs.
Erynne ;)