Last Friday, I went to Home Cheapo looking for a vacuum to handle the hard floors (since my other vac went kaput). Although the nursery portion was closed, outside of it were a ton of shrubs and trees underneath a 50% off sign.
I have gone to HC several times this summer, bought a few plants (red carpet roses and carmel huecheras), and I coveted some of the other shrubs. So, I decided to see what they still had. I scored 3 different carpet roses; apple blossom, pink and coral. I also picked up a Tardiva hydrangea and a couple of other shrubs that I don't rightly remember the names of (nice red leaves in the fall though). Six good sized shrubs and trees for $30 - a good deal as far as I'm concerned and they can overwinter in their pots.
(carmel heuchera - a shade plant)
I may go back and pick up a couple of Mock Orange shrubs, we'll see. No, I didn't find a vacuum there, I ended up going to Targ*t to find what I wanted.
TypePad is being naughty. This is the second try.
Finding such bargains really stretches you dollar, doesn't it. Great finds. Maybe I should be out looking.
(Then I went on about some pom-pom junipers, but let's just wait to see if the original comment ever shows up. Too much effort to write it all.)
Posted by: Cop Car | October 31, 2006 at 10:19 AM
Well, I went out looking. Came home with 10 bags of cedar bark mulch and one Euonymus Golden (in a 1 quart container) for 15% off. I had to come home to get the wet mulch out of the car. Unloaded the mulch, went out to dig, spread some mulch, planted the euonymus, came in pooped.
Posted by: Cop Car | October 31, 2006 at 04:23 PM
In your area, you'll have to wait for the really good prices - seeing as fall has just started.
Fall has, well, fallen around here (and it can't get up). Winter is closing in fast.
Posted by: bogie | November 01, 2006 at 04:02 AM
Actually, I'm a bit late for snapping up great buys on desirable plants; but, the really desirable plants are normally at the nurseries which don't have great sales on shrubs and trees. Everyone has wonderful sales on annuals, though, few of which I ever plant.
I took the plants in from the well of the escape window in the kiln room, yesterday. First, had to cut about 50 stems that had been thrown out from the potted plants and had become rooted! I've watered what's left in the well and put a light covering of leaves on those plants to see if any of them will over-winter.
Posted by: Cop Car | November 01, 2006 at 08:42 AM