I popped to my local GC this afternoon for some compost. Since they were taken over they have seriously increased the C&S section and I found Aloe haworthioides for £3.49 reduced to £2.79.
In my greenhouse now.
Bargain!
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Re: Bargain!
So it's not just teenagers who aspire to be Internet influencers! 
Seriously though, that sounds like a good price for a pretty unusual plant! Happy hunting, and I hope there are more exciting bargains to come.
Seriously though, that sounds like a good price for a pretty unusual plant! Happy hunting, and I hope there are more exciting bargains to come.
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https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/cacti.html
Members visiting the Llyn Peninsula are welcome to visit my collection.
Swaps and sales at https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/forsale.php
My Field Number Database is at https://www.fieldnos.bcss.org.uk
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Re: Bargain!
Sounds like a very good purchase 
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Re: Bargain!
Was this Van Hage? I bought some of my early cacti there back in the early 1980s!
Including a Cleistocactus strausii for £1.25 which still resides today as a multi-column plant bedded out in the centre of my greenhouse, and needs regular lopping:
Including a Cleistocactus strausii for £1.25 which still resides today as a multi-column plant bedded out in the centre of my greenhouse, and needs regular lopping:
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Herts Mike
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Re: Bargain!
That’s it Tony. They have been taken over by Blue Diamond who are completely refitting the store and trebling the stock throughout.
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Re: Bargain!
Blue Diamond took over a local garden centre a few years ago, and transformed it. Much better choice of garden plants and a good selection of cacti and succulents, but not such a bargain as you found, Mike!
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Re: Bargain!
The Blue Diamond garden centre just outside Nottingham is vast and at times has had a really decent selection of cacti and succulents. I got a few adromischus, mammilaria and a pachypodium lamerei from there over the past couple of years that are all still going strong. Mostly from Pugh's cacti from memory.
Growing in Nottingham for the past 4 years and recently found my way to a Nottingham branch meeting. A few plants on a windowsill has very quickly turned into a greenhouse full!
Attempting to grow a range of turbinicarpus, coryphantha, escobaria and several other cactus genera. Tylecodons, pelargoniums and conophytums keep me occupied in the winter and an ever expanding number of gasteria live under the bench.
Attempting to grow a range of turbinicarpus, coryphantha, escobaria and several other cactus genera. Tylecodons, pelargoniums and conophytums keep me occupied in the winter and an ever expanding number of gasteria live under the bench.
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Re: Bargain!
Which Garden Centre is this Diane? Sounds like it would be worth a visit.
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Diane
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Re: Bargain!
It’s in Lower Morden, Jean. It used to be Wyevales.
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Re: Bargain!
Ah yes, thanks Diane. I see from the website that there is also one in Addlestone, which I might also manage to visit.
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