Cheap plants
Yesterday after visiting Bunnings, my fiance was horrified that I came home with three punnets of plants and a bag of potting mix when I only went to get some tap washers.
I’m a sucker for new plants, and some times it can take a fair whack out of my weekly budget if I am not careful.
My resolution for June (and the rest of the year) is to keep my plant spending habit to a minimum, that is to get value for money.
My Bunnings trip saw me come home with three punnets of seedlings, a bag of potting mix and of course the tap washers.
Each of the punnets had 8 seedlings in them and they were $2.50 each. Far better value than the slightly larger plants of the same variety for $3 for each plant, they had only been grown on for another two weeks or so.
After coming home I fixed the taps, and potted up my new plants.
Here are some photo’s of them potted up, I did run out of pots so some ended up right into the garden.
Who would have though all those plants cost only $7.50?
The plants are:
Mixed Hypoestes
Salvia - Blaze of Fire
Mixed Vinca
Tags: gardening
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Awesome! I just love it when I can find great plants at a great price. In a few weeks they will have caught up to the bigger plants anyway, as the larger plants tend to go through a bigger transplant shock than the smaller plants. I can’t wait to see how they do this season. I hope you will report back on them.
I’ll be sure to follow up. There may be some slow growing happening as we’re coming into Winter in Australia, although I live in a semi-arid tropical region I get plenty of sun each day over winter, just not much heat.
I hope they don’t get transplant shock when I plant them out!