Whats your latest plant purchase?

joysie21 Senior Member Posts: 314	Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 13, 2012 7:16:47 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by joysie21 on Oct 13, 2012 7:16:47 GMT Thank you geranium ill do that this weekend

Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 14, 2012 5:34:48 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Oct 14, 2012 5:34:48 GMT You're welcome. I came home from the village market with two houseplants my friend had brought to sell - a Crassula and a Peperomia. I paid £2 for the Crassula, and she gave me the Peperomia.

esther Top Member Posts: 2,677	Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 15, 2012 5:49:14 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by esther on Oct 15, 2012 5:49:14 GMT I bought 3 shrubs to go in the big tubs for the winter and lots of Tulip and Daffodil bulbs ;D
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Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 15, 2012 5:55:18 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Oct 15, 2012 5:55:18 GMT Lovely. I love Skimmias! Is that a Lophomyrtus? I can't read the label.

SueA Global Moderator Posts: 17,918	Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 15, 2012 17:58:34 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SueA on Oct 15, 2012 17:58:34 GMT I like the look of that lophomyrtus(?) too, pretty leaf colour & flowers as well.

Cherry Global Moderator Posts: 17,970 Member is Online	Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 15, 2012 22:31:46 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cherry on Oct 15, 2012 22:31:46 GMT I bought a Delbard rose 'Red Intuition', R. Love Potion and a maidenhair fern called Marsha's Pride. Do we have this, or should I bring a bit?

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,753	Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 16, 2012 3:45:38 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on Oct 16, 2012 3:45:38 GMT they are lovely Esther, I like the red leaf one too Cherry I googled it and nothing much came up over here

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Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 16, 2012 5:32:35 GMT

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I decided to go and buy some pansies and other plants to go in my containers for the winter. I got violas and cyclamen as well, plus an ornamental cabbage and four small evergreens for the centres of the pots. The GC had reduced all the prices, or put them on 'special offer'. Is this a sign that they're not getting customers in?

Rosie Global Moderator Rambling Rosie. Posts: 9,407	Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 16, 2012 8:27:41 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rosie on Oct 16, 2012 8:27:41 GMT I read in this weeks Amatuer gardening that B&Q are considering not selling plants anymore I think they are suffering low sales too. I do like the red leaved shrub Esther, gorgeous colour
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Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 16, 2012 15:18:46 GMT

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Oct 15, 2012 22:31:46 GMT Cherry said:

I bought a Delbard rose 'Red Intuition', R. Love Potion and a maidenhair fern called Marsha's Pride. Do we have this, or should I bring a bit?

I googled the fern as well Cherry & the only things that came up were Australian & US details, it says it needs tropical conditions with high humidity & is suitable for indoor or greenhouse growing.

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Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 16, 2012 18:54:48 GMT

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Oct 15, 2012 22:31:46 GMT Cherry said:

I bought a Delbard rose 'Red Intuition', R. Love Potion and a maidenhair fern called Marsha's Pride. Do we have this, or should I bring a bit?

We have very similar native Adiantums over here Cherry, that one seems to be a cv of that part of the world, I think if you could bring it over it would need winter protection

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Lou78W Top Member Posts: 9,402	Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 16, 2012 19:08:28 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Lou78W on Oct 16, 2012 19:08:28 GMT Plus.....are you allowed to "export" plant material
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Geranium Top Member Posts: 13,081	Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 17, 2012 5:50:18 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Geranium on Oct 17, 2012 5:50:18 GMT As for B&Q, if they looked after their plants better, they'd make more profit! I'd guess they have to dispose of half of them because they don't water them!

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Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 17, 2012 7:41:05 GMT

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Oct 17, 2012 5:50:18 GMT Geranium said:

As for B&Q, if they looked after their plants better, they'd make more profit! I'd guess they have to dispose of half of them because they don't water them!

I agree Geranium, not only B&Q though, Wilcos is another.

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Rosie Global Moderator Rambling Rosie. Posts: 9,407	Whats your latest plant purchase? Oct 17, 2012 7:56:38 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rosie on Oct 17, 2012 7:56:38 GMT The trouble is they don't have the staff to do plant care, it was like that when i worked in B&Q, all the garden staff complained many times to management about the plant care, it fell on deaf ears
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