Plug plant savers to fill a garden with little cash and effort

 

I CAN'T resist a gardening bargain and when I saw a 24-hour Twitter offer for 36 herbaceous perennial plug plants for £1.99 plus postage from Thompson & Morgan, I couldn't help myself.

OK, so I have no permanent positions to put them at the moment, but that's never stopped me before.

There's six of each variety:

Verbena bonariensis
Coreopsis Golden Joy
Foxglove Dalmation Mixed
Sweet William
Salvia Blue Queen
Achillea millefolium Cassis (yarrow)

I potted them up in multipurpose compost in ever-handy yogurt pots and they'll spend the winter in the cold greenhouse to be hardened off and planted out in spring.

In a couple of weeks, they'd put on decent growth in such a mild autumn, with only two casualties to snails, who refuse to hibernate.

By spring, something will have died and I'll have a space to fill...