How to Find Garden Plants Cheap

We love our gardens, but despite the recession, the cost of plant material continues to rise. So how do you find garden plants cheap? Here are some tips.

Instructions

1. Look for sales. Because plants look great in pots for a limited time garden centers need to turn over aging inventory so they regularly have sales. Mail order nurseries also have to move out their plant material before it outgrows the small shipping pots. So, look for specials and sales to find garden plants cheap.

2. Grab the leftovers at the end of the season. Whether you live in a climate with one growing season or several growing seasons, you can always benefit from end of the season sales. Perennials are often sold cheap and even some annuals can perk up again if you get them in the ground. And even if they don't look their best at the end of the season, most perennials will come back looking terrific come next year.

3. Make friends with your landscape designer, garden coach or landscaper. Sometimes you can convince a garden professional to let you tag along when they go shopping at a wholesale grower. The experience is fun and the plants are much cheaper.

4. Growing your own plants is the cheapest way to find plants. You can take cuttings of your favorite plants and root them or collect seed and start new plants for free. If you are really successful, you might have extras to give away or even sell them off so someone else gets to buy plants cheap.

5. These are just some ways you can find garden plants cheap. Then you can spend extra on that one magnificent plant you really want that is anything but cheap and feel no guilt!

Resources

• Landscape design and gardening information
• Finding the best place to buy native plants
• A visit to San Marcos Growers & Video