1 plant for a £10 or 1000 for £2.99?
Cheap gardening from seed
I was astonished by the current price of perennial plants at a garden centre the other day. What would have been £6.50 before lockdown is now £10 or more, for something very ordinary. Fair enough – the nursery spends a lot of time and skill raising plants and rather wants to make a profit from doing so, but if you are planting a new garden just from containerised stock, the cost is considerable. You can gap up borders very well with sowing flowering plants from seed. However, some of my clients seem strangely reluctant to do so, so I asked them why. Read more
