Just in time for the Easter weekend and my special offer perennials have arrived, those of you who regularly follow my blog know that I am very impulsive over buying plants. When a Thompson and Morgan email hit my in box with a one day special, 72 perennials for £9.99 I couldn’t resist.
So today they finally arrived, little plug plants a mere 2 or 3 cm tall with with great potential to be full grown flowering plants by the summer.
All the plants are great for adding lots of summer colour, year on year, to attract insects particularly bees.
My first job was a quick trip to the garden centre to buy multipurpose compost as I ran out only yesterday! Not really looking forward to the prospects of a garden centre on a rainy Easter Saturday, I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t actually too busy.
Back home and straight to the greenhouse to start potting on. I tend to use pots with 6 or 10 cells and at this stage put a couple of plugs in each cell. This is for 2 reasons, mainly because I run out of space if I have too many pots, but also it uses less compost at this stage and if the plants get too big before the summer, I can always divide them again before planting them out.
Lovely rich multipurpose compost, put into the cells and watered well ready to receive the plugs.
I use a dibber to make just the correct sized hole, which means the plug drops in beautifully without too much fuss.
Once in, press the compost around the plug and onto the next, only 71 more to go…..
An hour or so later all 72 are potted on, with labels added and another good watering done. Now just to check on them daily, watering when needed (every day) and hey presto by May 1/2 term we’ll be ready to plant them out in the garden.
I’ll let you know how I get on……
Sarah x
This is really awesome! So many plants 🙂 I envy your greenhouse!! Have fun 🙂
Aww thanks
hope they all grow into lovely plants – I’d never be able to fit that many in my mini garden…
Aww thank you, I’ll squeeze them
After seeing your Instagram post, I went straight on to there website and bought some too, although mine were £15, what a bargain though! I can’t wait to have a garden full of flowers this year. Sam X
They are a bargain, our gardens should be a riot of colour, can’t wait to see them
Every time I read your blog I dream about having my own house with garden 🙂
I just wanted to let you know that I nominated you for the Liebster Award. No pressure to accept or participate but you can find the details in the link below should you choose to. Just FYI I linked to your blog and this post specifically for people to check out so I hope you get a few extra clicks whether you decide to partake or not 🙂
https://2lookandbehappy.wordpress.com/2016/03/28/liebster-award/
Aww thank you, I’ll try to join in as soon as I can
That would be great, Sarah!
I’m already looking forward to seeing the plants all grown up Sarah!
Looking forward to seeing How these turn out! I have just moved house and we now have a lovely potting shed so will be following your blog with interest! X