Huge bargain using anti wastage app

Jacquimcmahon

I just used an anti wastage app to score 180€ worth of plants for 20€! 

It’s a bit of a “pot luck” as all the app says is xx value and a vague description. In todays case it said 5€ “basket” with 40€ worth of balcony plants. I booked 4 baskets to share with a friend.

when I collected them I was pleasantly surprised.

1 large pre planted mixed pot with pelagonium, mini petunia, lobelia and another trailing that I forget, in a nice decorative pot
4 large pots of pelargoniums
2 mini planters of dianthus
2 round planters of dianthus
5 various other dianthus ( mixed named varieties)
2 gazia
2 campanula
1 mint ( worst of the bunch!)

everything needs a drink, some deadheading and probably a feed, but honestly a great deal for little money, and even a few nice re usable pots in the mix💖

would be interested to know if anything similar exists in the UK.

B3

So would I. I do love pot luck😊

Fire

Very cool. 

On our local groups you could run a nursery based on the plants people give away.

Jacquimcmahon

That would be great too Fire. No groups around here and generally most shops let unsold stock get neglected and die, so I was happy to see how healthy the plants are, it’s just that no one wants to buy the ones where the first flush of flowers has passed. I have always bought what my husband calls the “sick bay” plants and usually nurse them back. 

I think it’s a holdover from when cash was tight, no money to spend on “pretty” meant I had to make the savings and work a little harder, and also have a bit more patience as unlike most folks around here I did not have the “instant” garden.