Discounted plants, whats the most discounted you've bought?

This might not count, as I didn't buy it - it was FREE! A hanging pot with sorry looking red and white surfinias was being given away at my local Tesco when I called in one evening (last year) Bit garish for my taste, but never look a gift horse..... They did recover.

I always look in the bargain/discounted sections of garden centres, and over the years I have found some great bargains. One of the best one was a large palm in a very nice patio tub, it was in the reduced bit at Homebase but had no price, the assistant scanned it and it came up as 99p she called the manager, he scanned it 99p so they let me have it at 99p - bargain but more like a fluke.
One of my recent best buys was a weeping tree which had gone past its pussy willow stage so the garden centre had it reduced from £17 to £5, I cannt wait for next spring.
Finding plant bargains is one of my favourite parts of gardening - village fetes and carboot sales are great sources.
But please never ever order from gardenbargains.com - see one of my blogs with my on going saga of my order for bedding plants.

I bought a shrub from our local Hiller's last autumn, reduced from £11:99 to £2 in the 'reduced' section. Even the woman on the till couldn't see what was wrong with it

I very rarely buy any bargains as I'm not too good at nursing them back to health! A plant has to be in fairly robust condition to start with in order to survive with me I'm afraid! I always envy people who can revive something that's half dead.

4 Coreopsis major for $1.25 each at WalMart last week. Still had some buds on them & it's a perennial, so I thought, why not. Sometimes I get free plants off of Freecycle. Sometimes I just dig them up from the property surrounding my office since everything gets mowed down anyway. Oh, and some 75% dead houseplants - simply labeled "HELP" - on the bargain table at Lowe's. Big tropical-looking plants for maybe $3. I always figure that if something looks bad, if I just cut it down to the ground it might regenerate & look OK eventually.

My best bargain was a Sambucus - Black Lace.....absolutely free....well after all it was just a dejected twig in a pot....it is now about 3ft tall and has a flower stem.....

AT THE LAST DAY OF THE IDEAL HOME SHOW I PURCHASED A LARGE EUONYMUSJAP PIERROLINO "SENCE PHOTO WILL FOLLOW, I CONVINCED THE GUY SELLING THEM IT WAS DAMAGED BLAH BLAH BLAH, IT WORKED,,
TODAY A LOCAL SHOP WAS SELLING PLANT IN BAD CONDITION BURNT SOAKED THE USUAL, I ASKED HOW MUCH HE SAID £3,99 I ASKED WHAT THEY WERE HE SAID "PLANTS" NO LABEL OR NOTHING, WE BARGANED HE SAID £2.00 I SAID NO, I GOT 6 FOR 60P EACH,
NOT BAD EH, IM A REAL PLANT HAGLER,,

MY BEST DEAL ON A PLANT WAS BOUGHT AT A JUMBLE SALE THAT MY YOUNG NECE WAS HELPING AT, I BOUGHT A PLANT CALLED "THE FOUR -A-CLOCK PLANT", MY FATHER INLAW A GREAT GARDENER TOLD ME WHAT IT WAS, APART FROM JUST BEEING POTTED THAT DAY KEELING OVER HE NURCHERD IT BACK TO LIFE, I MUST OF GIVEN AWAY LITTERLY THOUSAND OF THEESE BEUTIES, THEY SMELL STRONGLY OF PERFUME, ANOTHER NAME FOR THEM IS MIRRABALIS, (EXCUSE SPELLING) THEY SHED SEEDS AND THE TUBER SPREADS ,,THEY ONLY SMELL IN THE EVENING,,

Its difficult to read your responses when you shout Teddygirl.........

I bought a pale pink Mandevilla from a very expensive garden centre, reduced to £2.50 don't know original price, lovely healthy plant with one leaf that had been scorched, that was three weeks ago its now in a new pot and growing like mad nearly 5ft tall and covered in flower buds :-)

My Clerodendrum Ugandense for 99 pence!

Quick update, lulu is now the proud birthday owner of this once bedraggled abused 50p discounted.
See it pays to think ahead ; )

And very pretty she is too Stevie. Thank you. Fingers crossed I can get her to flower and keep her away from deep frosty winter nights and howling gales.
Google says she likes to be out of the wind, south or west facing and quite likes to cascade from a pot!