Gardeners World (sort of)

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Well fellow Goyers …I had planned to come back with lots of lovely photos of the show gardens and interesting plants but instead the only pics I have to show are the plants I bought !

Normally we have a slow stroll around whilst we take in all the gardens and then a leisurely lunch, but then we’ve never been on “plant sell off day” before .Every stall was taking orders for the display plants from the moment we arrived .Fearing there would be nothing left worth buying I was like a cat on a hot tin roof getting around the stalls,checking out reductions ect .By lunchtime I had hardly bought a thing! Every time I asked about a stunning plant it had either been snapped up off display or they’d run out .

I managed to take a pic of a few that caught my eye like this stunning Trandenscentia .

I searched in vain for a pink Salvia i’d fallen in love with outside

Or this gorgeous Verbascum

But I did manage to grab this Verbascum blattaria album ..just stunning

but not this one

But grabbed this beautiful and very unusual salvia that was listed as vatican white but certainly isn’t

Feeling more than a little put out we wandered outside where one of the show gardens was being broken up and paydirt !! I managed to grab a Peony Sarah Bernhart ,three huge Salvia Lubbecas,two very large Geranium Siraks,the Salvia shown above and a very large copper Stipa Arundinacea which is now known as Anemanthela Lessoniana I’m told and three of the Verbascum Blatteria Album ….all for £36!
My good spirits restored we popped back in to the RHS marquee only to find they were selling off the foxgloves for a £1 each ,so we had three Foxy ,three Pams Choice and three Exalibur Lavender for the princely sum of £9 !!

Hubby decided he’d better trundle off to the car (twice) with my purchases and whilst he was busy I nabbed a large Knautia Macedonia .. a Malvia Moschata “White Perfection” a Geranium “Rozanne” and a Gillenia trifoliate for £3 each …all reduced !

Finally we hit the plant alley indoors after a refreshing cup of tea and me feeling most happy .
Well …..what can I say ….5 plants for £5 ….I was like a woman possesed!!
We grabbed Salvia Nemorosa Pink “East Friesland” x3,…Aconitum Napellus ssp Vulagre Albidum x3 Lysimachia Atropurpureum Beaujolaise x6 (gorgeous plant) Phlox david x1
Physocarpus lady in red x1….yes for £1 and a good 3 litre plant at that!!!
Salvia New Dimension Rose x2 Anemone coronaria “the bride”x2 and a Miscanthus Souix and a tender but very pretty grass called Hordeum Jubatum.
So sorry fellow gardeners …no pictures of immaculate show gardens but one over the moon gardener who can’t wait to get planting !! :-)))

• 17 Jun, 2012
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