How's your week going?
We had a small fluttering of snow on Monday, but it fluffed off after a few minutes which we were really happy about. Although it has got a little colder.
We've been doing a little more snipping and pruning the garden and the P.A. has ordered some new perennial flowers from Thompson and Morgan*. We find they do some great stuff at a really good price, plus they do collections of plug plants; for instance a 72 cottage garden perennial selection is just £14.99 while on offer.
Which is fantastic value, as mew can pay approximately £7.99 for one foxglove at our local garden centres. We know having the plugs involves potting on and bringing the plants on, but if mew do the sums, 72 x £7.99 = £575.28 for garden ready plants, that's a lot of wonga. And we've found that quite a lot of garden ready blooms we've purchased over the years from garden centres don't survive, in fact some don't make the season, and we're experienced gardeners.
So for us it makes sense to buy the plug plants and nurture them until they're ready to go into the borders or pots. The plants come by post, and we know this puts some peeps off buying this way, but in the all the years of buying from them we've only had to contact them twice, once as the plants were accidently delivered to the neighbour next-door who was away and the plants died, as the courier left them on the front door step. And the next time, we ordered through a third party at QVC as it was cheaper than their website and the delivery took too long, but they replaced them no problem.
So if mew're thinking of adding new blooms, and mew're in the UK, take a look at their extensive catalogue. Plus they are now doing house plants, although we haven't purchased any of those yet.
*This is not an affiliate link, we are just sharing where we buy our stuff for our garden.
First up in the news
Another Gorgeous Catmas Card
Fudge's Up A Tree
Fudge was up his favourite tree on Sunday, mew can check out his TikTok video with a brief cameo from Pandora and Parsley!
Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick
Mew've got two more choices, Steampunk Cats or Pink Flamingos.
Which one should he model next?
EXTRA, EXTRA!
That's us done for today. Amber will be back on Friday with another fab book just for mew and if mew missed Monday's post click here to catch up on some more epic Brain Training!
In the meantime