the daydream fund challenge thread

alfie_1

choille wrote: »

Thant's marvellous - I do love a bargain. T'other day I got boxes [2] of champagne truffles for 49p from Superdrug - If I'd have known they were so dash tasty I'd of bought the lot!

do you find that bargain priced food things taste soooooooooooo much better.. :rotfl::rotfl:

Rummer

My T&M seeds arrived today :j oh and I stopped by Homebase and got oodles of reduced things for the garden including tools and plants

ukmaggie45

Hate to be a killjoy Rummer, but I've found T&M and also Suttons to be carp. Can't remember which of the 2 it was I bought saffron crocus from, of 30 bulbs we only got 6 flowers (and they got pigeoned or slugged!).

Had other failures from T&M like the lace primulas which turned out to be boring purple ones after I had used so much precious energy (and cash for compost! :eek: ) looking after them... They only offered me a voucher for the cost of plantlets, it was short time scale too so didn't bother using it. I will never touch them again.

Use RealSeeds!

Rummer

Oh they were just cheap flower seeds in the sale 29p per pack so I am not going to stress if they fail

I always get seeds from a variety of places and have had success and failures across the board.

alfie_1

im afraid i am the same...i buy em cheap [unless a specific ] and let em take thier chances...when i have great success it out weighs the odd failure...
i also "nick" seeds everywhere i go....including osbourne house, IOW

channel 5 9pm winter road rescue in scotland !! will give me an insight to choille's road battles or rather

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

i also "nick" seeds everywhere i go....including osbourne house, IOW

Good Lord! How awful! Appalling, in fact :eek:

I never thought Osbourne House would be any blooming good...so I didn't go there! :rotfl:

Fond memories of Ventnor Botanic Gardens though.

Mind you, I don't "nick, " I borrow. Some of my 'borrowed' seeds from 2009/2010 are just coming up. I have an "aromatic shrub thing" from Lady Anne's garden (they must improve the labelling there!) and a rather nice cotoneaster from beside a public road in Exeter so far.

Oh, and some hawthorn, which I hope are special ones, but the labelling is sub-standard. :mad::o

Davesnave

Two more pheasants today. Shot Monday, so they were very unlucky, missing the end of the season by a whisker....

....well, a short beak anyway!

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

Good Lord! How awful! Appalling, in fact :eek:

I never thought Osbourne House would be any blooming good...so I didn't go there! :rotfl:

Fond memories of Ventnor Botanic Gardens though.

Mind you, I don't "nick, " I borrow. Some of my 'borrowed' seeds from 2009/2010 are just coming up. I have an "aromatic shrub thing" from Lady Anne's garden (they must improve the labelling there!) and a rather nice cotoneaster from beside a public road in Exeter so far.

Oh, and some hawthorn, which I hope are special ones, but the labelling is sub-standard. :mad::o

actually outside the british museum in london they have a quaint little australian etc garden area too......;)

Davesnave

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Use RealSeeds!

I am, but I'm also trying:

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Premier-Seeds-Direct

which I think rhiwfield gave us the heads up for. I bookmarked it last year.

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

I am, but I'm also trying:

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Premier-Seeds-Direct

which I think rhiwfield gave us the heads up for. I bookmarked it last year.

doh !! what did you do that for.............i HAVE to order some from there !! what a fab quirky selection.......