Temptation at the plant sale

Great choices Stera!

Lovely stera love the cat

Lovely blog Steragram! :) lovely plants too. Good idea setting a spending limit, pity I have no such self control! ;)

Super choices. I've been on the look out for a blue anemone like that and you've just reminded me, thank you.
Best to go only what you are willing to spend. I learnt the hard way the other week at the SRGC sale. I can't say I wasn't warned, I was...lol!

I'm not sure I could be so self controlled as to have a spending limit!lol Great choices, love the blue anemone, and that ginger cat is very cute.

Glad you had a lovely day,and nice for you to meet Sandra,,we get everywhere,you know..! Lol..how self restrained you were,Sue..to stick to your budget.well done..love your Anemone too,and the little ginger number :o).

It wasn't that difficult to stick to the budget - I got £15 from the cashpoint and they don't take cards at plant sales! Not saying I wasn't tempted though, especially by a small double philadelphus that only gets to 4 feet high. Perhaps another time...I didn't have anywhere to put it really. Thank you Sheila and Karen.
The anemone - yes, I've wanted one for years and its the first time I've seen one for sale, so it would have to have been that even if nothing else! I just sat and looked at it this afternoon - put in dappled shade and the wind was blowing the flowers in and out of the sunshine...Hope you find one soon Scottish. Glad you like Mrs P, Sandra Louisa and Irene!

I can vouch for that corydalis stera. I've had it for six years now, and it's going from strength to strength

Great Andrew. What soil and position have you got it in? I have a flexuosa in a place that's shaded in the morning, but I would really like one in a south facing bed - don't want to risk its life though.

It's in part shade and gets the morning sun

I think perhaps it'd be better not to risk it in the south bed then. But it would be fully shaded there by early July because there would be fuchsias behind and in front.- what do you think?

That's wonderful. I'm pleased you got some nice plants, and met Sandra. She's nice too :o)
I like your ginger friend :o)

Stera - will the fuchsias stop you seeing it when it's in flower? And you don't want to let it get swamped

No - I think it will have finished before they have grown up- as far as I remember they disappear completely by the second half of summer or or have I remembered wrong? Anyway I will leave a Flexuosa there for now and see what happens - it can always be moved if necessary as it's not very deep rooted.
Hywel, yes it was good to meet Sandra. She mentioned that she had met you - and we had a joint admiration session of Bella. Glad you like Mrs P. she loves going into things and yesterday she went up the chimney. What a mess. Her real name is RoRo - we can't call her that and can't seem to settle on a good name, so she is still Mrs Pussycat, Mrs for short.

Plant sales are always temptection!You're right, the only way to save money is to leave it home...but then I always thin kabout that wonderful plant that I couldn't buy! Ah Ah!

I have quite a list of those - including some shrubs I'd love but would have to make a new bed for....