Impulse purchase...

Good for you, Greenfingers. I am afraid you are right about Wilkos and their plants - the stand outside ours is always laden with dead or dying plants.
I'm glad you found some good'uns inside! Bargains! ;-)

Sounds like the Wilkinsons magnet really got hold of you !
But with great results.
Good purchases :o)
...........did you remember to buy the tissues ? Lol

i love wilkinsons, i got some fantastic spring/summer bulbs reduced to 50p a packet. Alium cristophii 15 in a pack. crocus sell one bulb per pot for £5. I potted them up in november and little green 'noses' are poking heir way through. I have never had a duff plant and i often use 'casualty corner' as i grown and sell plants on for a local charity.

Wilkinsons can be good for bargains as you say,but at ours they never water them from the minute theyre delivered.Pity...as such a waste.get much of our bird products there though..real good value ...oh and our bulbs too !

Cool, I must admit I did step away from the plants, seeds, bulbs and trays in Wilkinsons today as I was with my two boys and we were on pushbikes.

Good to get a bargin though, well done.

Great news and good bargains! Iv'e only bought bulbs from them and they have been very cheap and have flowered very well in the past.

Greenfingers.......your gonna be broke by the time spring gets here...... he he he...... is it lunch hour shopping or do you go to Wilkos especially...............

Brilliant, you got some real bargains. Their new baskets that you pull along with the long handles are brilliant, until you get to the till and realise how much weight you have to carry home. In the past I've bought reduced fruit bushes too that are fine once they've had some TLC.

I don't know Wilkinsons but our local convenience store is Lidl. Great for boys toys like electric DIY tools, kilts, kitchen scales, frozen lobster at £5, halfway decent binoculars for £13 but they literaly stack plants on top of each other!!

Ouch!

Looks like stores vary in the way they look after the plants. Our local Wilkinsons and Lidl look after their plants well. Lidl have fruit trees in at the moment for something like £3.99, around 2m tall and healthy :-)

Well done Greenfingers, I love Wilkinson,s, Every Autumn i buy Loads of garden stuff reduced upto 75% off, they go into a cupboard untill spring, by which time ive forgot what i bought, its like Xmas all over again, I looked a couple of weeks ago because i needed seed trays, I had about 10 medium size with clear lids (propogators) for 80p, food pellets 50p water retaining gel 25p butterfly lights 50p and of course the end of season plants in the ghouse bought for £1 or £2...

Its the place to go for basics to avoid those inflated garden centre prices!

hi greenfingers yeah the price is good try morrisons too there about the same price as wilkos i went into morrisons the other day there not in at the moment but the roses 3 for £5.oo there great mines 5 foot high

Fantastic deals Fingers. Well done.

On pay-day, Wilkos is heaving with staff from the office - we all love a bargain - you should have seen them all yesterday when I got back to the office with a bulging bag of plants - 'Let's have a look....' they all said. Bargains, BIG-style!
I know Lidl (next door to Wilkos) are great for plants too, we have one of their leaflets through the door every week, with the back page full of plant bargains. I've bought a couple of things from there in the past, but you've got to be quick - they often sell out on the 1st day!
I also picked up an African Violet - reduced also - but put it back when I realised my basket was already full and I have a little problem with the transport home - a 50cc with plants everywhere looks like a mobile hanging basket at times! One colleague - on a push bike - saw my bargain plants yesterday and made a special journey to Wilkos on his way home - I'll ask him today what bargains he managed to find.....hope they weren't cheaper than mine! LOL!
Roll on Saturday morning - I'll be in my element out there planting them up! Yippee, it's Friday!

P.S - Yes, I remembered the tissues.....LOL!

Sadly my colleagues trip to Wilkos on his pushbike was not so fruitful. The branch close to where he lives hadn't reduced their plants to billy-brgains so he came away empty handed, alas! The early bird......etc....

I know that magnet. It's very strong. I always get pulled. It's no good resisting.

Just read through this & it did make me smile bcos today b4 starting work i fell for a flowering cherry & a dead Gaultheria (29p so worth the gamble, i like to live dangerously) in Morrisons over the road.

Wow, your bargains were better than mine! 29p - that's the best bargain of the century, definately worth the risk. I hope you manage to nurture it back to health. It annoys me to see dying / dead plants for sale, but if you can breathe new life into it, it's 29p very well spent - well done!
I actually browsed the gardening section again to day in Wilko's.That magnet pulled me in again. Not a bargain to be had, everything at full price - might go an have another look at the end of the week. Good luck Weeding.

Hi.
It's convalescing on my kitchen windowsill where it can chat to the cactus, a Hello Vera and a lonely flax seedling that fell on hard times.
Have already treated it to a haircut, now I should probably wrap a tartan rug round its knees and pass it a jigsaw to do.
Is Gaultheria the same plant as "wintergreen", does anyone know?

Lol Nurse Weeding - hope you've poured it a glass of Lucozade!

Hi Weeding, in checking up your query I have learned something new! I know what Gaultheria is but did not know that it could also be called 'Wintergreen'.