Property News · July 7, 2018

What to buy at plant sales | Alys Fowler


Our gardening expert on trusted plants to look out for at plant salesAfter a slice of cake and a cup of tea, one of the joys of visiting a garden in summer is the plant sale. Going home with a little of something you liked is often as sweet as the cake. My favourite plants sales are not fancy – the pots might not match and the labels might be recycled from yoghurt pots – but they are full of much-loved plants: playful self-seeders, and tough biennials and perennials that can dodge slugs and snails. There’s often a bargain to put in a gap you’d hoped would have filled out by now. Here are some truly trusted plants to look out for.There are always plenty of geraniums, common finds that include the tough-as-old-boots G. x oxonianum and its many cultivars, the most likely being ‘Wargrave Pink’, an old standard that produces salmon-pink flowers even in deep shade. This lot are good at muscling out weeds in seemingly impossible locations – not rarefied, sure, but reliable. Continue reading…

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