Bargain Hunt Gardening Month by Month

Bargain Hunt Gardening Month by Month

Iris in rows

Flag Iris all grown as cuttings from one large overgrown host plant

January

  • Check around the garden for ripe seeds to collect and dry
  • Start sowing perennials on a windowsill
  • Check out garden centre sales

February

  • Keep sowing seeds
  • Divide perennials to get more and better plants.
  • Coppice Hazel twigs or other branches to use as supports. They look more natural than brown canes and are free.

March

  • Plant out hardy perennials under cloches to save indoor space and heating costs
  • Look for free brochures on Open Gardens to visit

April

  • Buy bedding plants such as Fucshi, Verbena and Felicia. Take up to 10 cuttings from each plant. By June you will have a hanging basket full.
  • Sow last years collected annual seeds.

May

  • Take cuttings from your garden shrubs.
  • Visit other gardens and parks

French lavender

June

  • Look out for bedding plant sales at your garden centre
  • Swap plants locally
  • Sow winter ornamental cabbages and pansies from cheap supermarket seed packets.

July

  • Check for bargains at local fetes and plant sales.
  • Attend your local shows and join horticultural societies for seeds and swaps.
  • Pot up Strawberry plant runners to get more plants. When rooted sever from the host plant.

August

  • Take more cuttings of plants you enjoyed in summer.
  • Root cuttings of Lupins and Oriental poppies can increase your plant stock

Poppy

  • Collect seed from favourite plants in old envelopes.

September

  • Protect bulbs, tubers and plants for next year. Dahlias, Begonias and geraniums can be saved in a frost free area.
  • Pick wild blackberries if you missed the bilberries in August.
  • Dry herbs to use through winter

October

  • Look out for end of season sales and cheap shrubs from garden centres.
  • Pot some Hyacinths to give as Christmas presents.

Hyacinth

November

  • It is a good time to plant Tulips yet many shops have got them at big discounts as they get the stock ready for Xmas.

December

  • Ask Father Christmas to buy you the garden present you covet.
  • Look for good value Gloxinia tubers
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