Help! Overwhelmed, new and low on cash

DKLS

I would also recommend waiting to see what comes up, but I am not that patient, have a look and see if you have any perennial plants that are in need of splitting. If you don't have any start planning which ones to get in a few months, they should be hitting the garden centres soon, if not already there.

I spit up a plant on sunday in-between showers, from one plant I managed to get 15 new plants, 9 for me and the rest for my mother in law.

Mr_Costcutter

Our local horticultural society holds plant sales a couple of times a year. The plants are sold for next to nothing, and the advice given by the members is invaluable. Well worth a visit if you are lucky enough to have one locally

DaftyDuck

My tip to new gardeners is find an old gardener. Walk round the block and find a gardener (Freudian slip there ) ... find a garden you like. Go back on a couple of sunny days, and you are bound to find a crunched-up arthritic figure wearing rags. Smile, and tell said scruffy what a wonderful lawn/flowerbed/bottom they have. They will warm to compliments, the "flowery" the better.

ALL gardeners are warm, wonderful, loving and kind. No, it is a proven FACT! Honest. You will leave (after a cup of tea/coffee/cigarette, clutching a small bag of cuttings and a potted stick. Not only will you have free plants you like, they are likely to be ones that will grow in your soil and climate.

KxMx

I've always been really happy with tools, accessories and decorations from Poundland. Also check out QD, 99p+, Poundworld and Wilko.

dogstarheaven

peaceandfreedom wrote: »

I would also get friendly with other gardeners locally - usually they are very happy to give you cuttings or to divide up some of their plants in springtime. Keep an eye out on Freecycle as well, there are often free plants and equipment offered on there.

If you're new to gardening and to the garden you have, you really need to plan what will grow happily there. Can you advise where the sun in relation to the garden, as some plants that you might plant might hate the spot it's planted in.

I second the advice about asking on Freecycle and such like. I've made a very good friend on there when I requested a very obscure plant and now we're the best of gardening buddies for the past 6 years. I've gifted plants on Freecycle many a time too, but I do find some people on the site (not just for plants) are plain greedy and ungrateful. I've often been to open garden events where the public will open their gardens to raise money for a good cause, will have plant sales, and usually they're very cheap compared to what you'd find in the shops/garden centres. If you're on FB, join some gardening groups/forums and put in a request there after you've established yourself for a bit. There are plant or seed swaps too. Community gardens are another source of cheap plants/seeds.