What ya bought lately - CONFESS

[Dutchy]

I bought garden compost to put on the new raised veg bed. I needed 5 but bought 6 as they are almost 7 € a piece but now two for 12€ and although it is only 1€ discount per bag I used the 6€ gained for 3 hyacinth in pot that were 3 for € 3.
Bought narcissus nameless small white that I liked the look of too and a blue Iris. 3 for € 4. Those can go into the garden once they have finished.
Bought birdseed and fat. And pins to fasten the liner of the brooklet in place once I get that in.
Still can't get it in though, due to wet and snow and ice but they say Friday and Saturday will be dry and warmish so maybe this weekend.

Unless the doc forbids actions like these. Though my foot is more of an "I am doing nothing" pain than an "I am active pain". Is standing active? It hurts then too. Ah well. It will get better someday.

[Jasmine]

I like your thinking Dutchy!

I forgot to confess yesterday...I bought Helleborus Winter Ballet Karli, a pot of Iris Joyce and a pot of white hyacinth...and some peanuts for the poor starving birds.

[Jasmine]

After a google I think I've got something else from the Winter Ballet series as Karli is actually quite a dark pink. I bought it for the flowers so it doesn't matter!



I wonder if it is Winter Ballet Lola?

[Dutchy]

Went to the GC today to get a present for a friend.
Discovered they were dumping bulbs.
A real bargain. Botanic tulips, one fat very alive crown imperial and 6 white Quamash. Five Euro for the lot.
And not with discount but nice anyhow. 5 Galanthus hippolyta in pot.
Well one has to rescue special and still healthy bulbs right?

[Jasmine]

Absolutely Dutchy!

Yesterday at B&Q I got a tray of 6 white hyacinth, a tray of 6 Leucojum, 3 pots of snowdrops and a £10 bag of 3 houseplants. For £2 a pot I love just seeing if anything different comes up in snowdrop pots.

This morning I won Galanthus Chantry Taffeta on eBay!

[Dutchy]

I looked it up. All wrinkly.
Pretty though.
Do the wrinkles stay during flowering? Or do they sort of fade?
The internet is not clear.
They only say single bulb per client… no I do not want to know how much it costs.

[Jasmine]

There are a few wrinkly snowdrops Dutchy and they stay wrinkly until they die back.

[Dutchy]

I noticed Galanthus plicatus Diggory having wrinkled flowers.
There is this lady on Texel who does snowdrop days who has it.

Nice to know it stays wrinkled.
How many different ones have you got by now Jasmine,?

[Jasmine]

I've got about 25 special named ones Dutchy!

Grumpy is on the way - just needs a sunny day!

[Dutchy]

Don’t we all

[Ladygardener]

What a fab Snowdrop Jasmine, well done.

Good bargains there Dutchy, hope your friend liked their gift.

[Barbara]

I bought 2 hurdles for the peonies, a bag of perlite and an orange spikey dahlia called colour spectacle, they had pots of tulips and daffodils at £29.99, I left those where they sat.

[Dutchy]

I read two hurdles for the ponies and did wonder Barbara.

[Barbara]

Dutchy,

[Tig]

Hmmm, I have ordered my summer bedding plugs and taken advantage of the 20% off perennials offer at Parkers. Good job there are spaces after cutting the grasses back - must not buy any more plants. Got 15 free lily bulbs, they will have to go in pots I think. The magic shoehorn will be needed come late spring.

[Jasmine]

I bought some small terracotta pots for scent training although I'm not sure Brenna is fully invested in that! I also bought some first early potatoes, a bag of glads and a tray of pink, yellow and bluey lavender primroses. Oh, I also got some more bird food.

[Tig]

2.5kg of chicken manure pellets and a bottle of seaweed fertiliser - very tempted by some large flowering primulas at the GG only £2 for 3 but they don't stay in flower long with all the rain we are getting.

[maggy]

Bought a pack of 8 primulas I will put in a pot near the front door  under the eaves or back in the porch might protect them and 1 dahlia tuber and some tiger lily corms.

[Dutchy]

Spring must be on its way.

[Dutchy]

Pre ordered the first Narcissus for next Spring.

Firebrand, White lady and Bulbocodium Mary Poppins

[mickthecactus]

Some new edging shears. Reduced to £15.

[Jasmine]

We went to Tates - one of my favourite GCs! We bought lots of different foxgloves, some primulas and some little starter pot plants. We also got Brenna a new phezzie and a bag of special treats. The birds got some peanuts.

[maggy]

I was looking at some electric hand shears with Phil and before I managed it he had ordered them for my Mothers day pressie. A security camera for my back garden which was a bargain at £54.

[Jasmine]

While we were in Bognor I got some foxgloves from B&Q and a packet of begonia corms, yesterday I got some more foxgloves, some tete a tete white daffs and a tree stake. I also bought a tie for the tree stake but left that in the trolley. I repatriated the tie this morning and bought more foxgloves and some cowslips as Alan wasn't following me around telling me I didn't need things!!!

[maggy]

I'm not missing that Jasmine , that Where you putting them ! Everytime  i picket a punnet of plants up, but I think they must all be the same, as Chris said when she bought 2 packs of primulas the other day ! Ron will say where are they going, I thought it was only me, mind you I would put up with it now given the chance.

[Jasmine]

Big hug maggy, they do make us roll our eyes but when Alan was diagnosed with prostate cancer I realised I wouldn't know what to do with out him.

[Tig]

2 boxes of chicken manure pellets, plant ties and labels from Poundland, 2 x 50 ltr bags of westland mpc with added John Innes from Sainbos for £13, and treated myself to a pretty yellow anemone centred chrysanth with shredded petals for the kitchen windowsill.

[Ladygardener]

Jenny bought bagged manure, compost and bags to grow potatoes in. We do use the compost bags turned inside out to grow them too but we empty out the compost we've bagged from the heap and have'nt done them all yet.

[maggy]

Paid 18.99 for a metal obelisk off amazon it's rubbish should have been metal its plastic can't get it in the ground if I use any pressure on it it will snap !! Peed off left feedback but can't be bothered to go to the trouble of packing it up I just won't order anymore garden stuff from them, I probably can use it in a pot but it was meant to replace one that had rotted.

[Jasmine]

That's annoying maggy, it might be worth complaining, I did with something and I got told not to bother returning the item and I got a refund.