clearance table squee!
May. 22nd, 2011 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinI need to start hitting the garden clearance racks at Lowe's on a weekly basis. Two weeks ago, I got 4-packs of marigolds and annual dianthus for $.50 each. Went back yesterday, hoping for more cheap marigolds. Got some marigolds and verbena at half off, and eight 1-gallon pots of annual dianthus ("Coconut Ice, white and red) for $.50 each!!! All they need is the dead flowers trimmed, and they'll bloom the rest of the summer. Yay for bargain-basement gardening!
In other garden news, I found the other nearly-black iris that I'd gotten from D years ago, so I can give her a piece of both kinds. One's a reddish black, one's a purple-black, and somehow lost them at home.
The sweet potatoes that I'd potted for propagating months ago have **finally** started to sprout. Grrrr. Here's hoping they grow quick, so I can make and root cuttings to plant out in the garden. Next year it might be worth the money to just buy the plants, for the time savings.
I *thinkz I've got seedlings of the cuphea I grew last summer, which would be very very cool, because li used all the seed last year. And I'm not sure that hybrid is still on the mrkets- cuphea "Summer Melody", once sold by Thompson and Morgan. Its a great summer annual for Kansas gardens, tolerates heat and humidity and even grasshoppers, it just doesn't get going until the soil gets good and warm.
In other garden news, I found the other nearly-black iris that I'd gotten from D years ago, so I can give her a piece of both kinds. One's a reddish black, one's a purple-black, and somehow lost them at home.
The sweet potatoes that I'd potted for propagating months ago have **finally** started to sprout. Grrrr. Here's hoping they grow quick, so I can make and root cuttings to plant out in the garden. Next year it might be worth the money to just buy the plants, for the time savings.
I *thinkz I've got seedlings of the cuphea I grew last summer, which would be very very cool, because li used all the seed last year. And I'm not sure that hybrid is still on the mrkets- cuphea "Summer Melody", once sold by Thompson and Morgan. Its a great summer annual for Kansas gardens, tolerates heat and humidity and even grasshoppers, it just doesn't get going until the soil gets good and warm.
