Packaged Plants On Sale Now

[malagabob]

Has any one seen these plants for sale now. They are in a small plastic bag of DRY loam. I was inspecting some yesterday at a shop with a name of £ shop.
There did not seem to be any root ball or sign of any growth.

[Tilly2]

Bob, I' m a bit confused by your question. Did it say on the packet what the plants were?

[Old_Jim]

A lot depends on the type of plant and its habit. Herbaceous plants are currently dormant and can be stored and planted as dry offshoots. Plant them out and they'll wake up as soon as the soil warms up. Alternatively, you can put them in pots indoors or in the greenhouse and they start growing immediately and you can plant them out in about 4 weeks' time. With the state of my garden at the moment, I think I may have to grow water lilies.

[ferlew]

You can make a considerable saving by buying some plants "bare root" rather than potted up.

[woofgang]

yup, a very common way of selling perennial roots, tubers and bulbs. Its a bit early to plant them directly into the garden but can be started in pots in a cool greenhouse or shed.

[hammerman]

Lots of stuff like dormant dahlia tubers on sale now. Pot them up and water and keep them frost free.

[boxtops]

What grieves me (as I saw in Morrisons just now) is not rooted plants, but buckets of cut flowers for sale with no water whatsoever in the containers. Each till had a great pile of bunches of daffodil buds, just stuffed in a cardboard box. Poos daffs...

[woofgang]

boxy, Waitrose had a sign up about this many years ago now. The daffs keep better out of water, the stem ends seal and his makes them last better in the shop. If they were in water in the shop, they would open and go over too quickly.