My small perennials nursery in the polytunnel.
I showed you a glimpse of my big perennials and shrubs plant pot nursery yesterday next to the plastic raised beds. Today here's a photo of my little plant nursery.
I made most of the small plants a couple of Thursdays ago when the heavens opened. Between the big perennials and the little plants nursery I have literally hundreds of plants in pots.
I sold 24 Osteospermums or Cape Daisies the other week to my brother.
My carboot sales plants are affordable to anyone's pocket because I believe everyone can have a nice garden without spending a lot of money. Small plants like the ones in the picture above I sell for only 1 Euros. Like acorns grow to be big trees. My little plants soon become big.
Do you have an hobby that makes you a bit of money?
Sometimes people say to me at a carboot sale:
"I already have one of those". I think:
"I have hundreds of them".
Somebody once asked me if they could have a "slip?". Instead of buying a cheap plant they wanted a free cutting! Some people have more front than Blackpool😊!
Heavens, at 1 euro you're almost giving them away. Yeh, some people are just plain cheapskates. How they have the gall I dont know
ReplyDeleteHi Linda. Like I said I believe anybody should be able to have a nice garden without spending a lot of money. I spend very little propagating new plants. Remember the woman at the carboot sale last year? When I told her the bamboo I was selling was 27 Euros at the garden centre and I only wanted 2 Euros for a plant. She said: "But this is a carboot sale not a garden centre" and walked away. You meet some odd folk.
ReplyDeleteI tend to pass on the few plants I create or dig out of my beds, we have a local guy who sells brilliant quality plants.
ReplyDeleteHi Marlene. My hobby is plant propagating and organic vegetables growing. Living in a rural location you have to keep busy.
ReplyDeleteDoes your brother live in Ireland too? I don't remember you mentioning him before.
ReplyDeleteSomeone gave me a 'plants for free' book on different kinds of propagation many years ago. I agree with you, that good gardens don't need to cost a lot. Unbelievable how very tightwad some people can be however.
ReplyDeleteYes he lives in a village near me YP. I have mentioned him from time to time on here. Thanks for commenting.
ReplyDeleteAll my old gardening books show the reader how to learn how to propagate and your gardening costs will be very little Tigger's Mum. Have you read The Garden In The Clouds? It's wonderfully written and Antony Woodward talks about smarily dressed little old ladies whom butter wouldn't melt in their mouths. Who go round formal gardens and gardens open to the public harmed with little plastic bags and scissors to obtain free cuttings.
ReplyDeleteMy Gran might have been one of them🤔
DeleteThat's where you got it from Tigger's Mum. Not plant nicking skills, plant propagating skills.😊 My grandfather use to grow cabbage plants and sell them in Bantry Square back in the nineteen sixties. So we've both got plant propagating in our gene's.
ReplyDeleteI knew someone who kept a pair of scissors in her handbag for the purpose of snipping off bits of any shrub she fancied, be it in someone's front garden or even formal parks and gardens. Not a nice person.
ReplyDeleteYou knew my mother??
DeleteShe sounds quite a character Tasker. I once met a woman who she had nicked some nice shrubs from a landscaped roundabout paid and sponsored by M & S.
ReplyDeleteThe funniest story about garage sales (our version of your carboot, I guess) I've ever heard, was a woman came up with a stack of boys jeans, priced at 50cents a pair. She argued the price because the knees were worn.The seller agreed and taking them from her said, "I do have some nice boys shorts for sale at 50 cents if you're interested." The buyer said she was. So the woman picked up the pair of jeans with the worn knees and lopped of the jeans at the knees and handed them to her. The buyer was quite affronted.
ReplyDeleteThe garage sale seller lady sounds quite an entrepreneur Debby. Talk about thinking on your feet.
DeleteYou could offer the free cutting in a pot which costs 1 euro? Some people are just too cheeky aren't they?
ReplyDeleteYes River there are some cheeky people out there. Especially people buying stuff. You also meet tyre kickers. People who just want a chat and have no intention of buying anything.
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