How do they get away with it?

[sandersj89]

Over the weekend I nipped to the local garden centre for a few bits and bobs. This is the sort of place more interested in selling you a nice set of garden furniture for £2,000 rather than a bag of compost. (Though I did pick up 3 bags of compost on £5 special so it cant be all bad.)

One of the things on my list was a few dozen 6” pots, thinking they would be a few pence each……NOT. £0.89 each for Stewart pots!!!!! No thank you.

Drove a few miles to another place, more plant orientated here and they do have good selection of most things, still wanted £0.59 for exactly the same item. Still too much for my liking.

On the way home passed a true nursery, popped in for a mooch around and did buy a very nice Daphne tangutica. Spied a pile of pots and asked if they would sell any, positive response and saw about 15 of the right sort of size and they gave me them for 5p a pot…bargin.

Still needed some more so 10 mins on like secured me 2litre pots for just over £0.17 each delivered.

How the garden centres get away with it beats me!!!

Jerry

[Trevor Holloway]

My local garden centre - part of a fairly large chain - has a great "help yourself" section with pots of various sizes and pallets (I can get three on the roof of the car).

[Belinda]

Give us a clue then Trevor - sounds like it might be worth a look if only I knew where you were talking about

[jopsy]

Our local garden centres are the same-especially one near to ivybridge (plymouth)
mind you even trago-the supposedly cheap local place has started to take the u know what as well
DH has started buying from mole valley farmers for bigger things
there area few local nurseries that i use if i fancy a drive!