How did your cheapo Poundland/Wilkinsons fruit bushes fare?

Primrose

About a year ago various people on here mentioned buying those cheap £1 fruit bushes (blackcurrant, redcurrant, raspberry etc) fruit bushes from places like Poundland or Wilkinsons.
I bought a blackcurrant which virtually died, but has just suddenly shown the smallest signs of life again and wondered how everybody else fared with theirs. I would normally only buy plants like this from a reputable nursery so it was an experiment, and not a very successful one but I wonder if anybody else had a better result.

flea72

raspberry canes from Poundland amounted to nothing, not a shoot in sight, total waste of money

Flea

a11waysindebt

With Wilkos I just wait till they reduced anyway as no one seems to water them. I did buy a Blackberry bush this year

What I normally find is nothing seems to happen till the following year anyway and by that time I've either forgot what they were or where I put them.

I did once have a load of Onions sprouting under the seat of my van which I placed there safe.:rolleyes:

Smoffi

I bought gooseberry, raspberry, blackberry and redcurrant this year..
had them planted now for about a month and one is shotting new green things.. so its looking ok

at the end of the day they were a quid each.. so no great loss!

SailorSam

I've had Roses from Wilkies and a few fruit bushes from Pouldland and they have all come up great. A good buy.
I want a hedge now, thinking of something to encourage the wildlife, hawthorn etc etc.

MunnyBoiler

Hiya

I bought 3 blackcurrant and a couple of gooseberry plants (or should I say twigs) from Poundland 2.5 years ago.

I'm pleased to report that the blackcurrants all grew and are producing fruit. The gooseberries were less successful and only 1 grew but I'm still awaiting it to produce fruit.......

Farway

My Lidl pear tree is just a dead twig now, but the gooseberries are OK, as are the redcurrants

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My blueberry and redcurrant from Lidl have died. Only blackberry and raspberry survived but didn't produce any fruit.

laurel7172

Five Aldi fruit trees-establishing well, but no fruit this year.

Homebase/Focus 3 for £5 blackberries/tayberries/raspberries have survived, and they fruit on last year's wood, so I wouldn't have expected fruit from them anway.

Wilco's blueberries-two still alive, one dead, as is the goji berry.

Half price garden centre scruffy-looking black/red/whitecurrants (£3.50 each)-thriving, no longer scruffy and cropped.

tomsolomon

My grape is 3 years old now, I have trained the branches and it should produce fruit next year.

misspenny

lidl cherry and apple both did nothng at all lild pear now 3rd year we had it produced 1 single pear which fell off befor it was fully grown, all the bushes we;ve had mostly lidl i think have done great