A guiltfree buying trip to Calloways nursery

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 5:56 pm

This was a really fun trip, not that all the other trips to garden centers haven't been fun, but this one was almost free!!

I had a coupon from Calloway's for 25% off one plant and the birthday money from Randy's folks. So the total cost of this trip was $3.50 When I checked out I asked the young man if I got to choose which plant the coupon was used on, most of the times coupons can only be used on the cheapest one, but he said yes so I chose the Spiderwort of course.

Buying a rose bush had been my original plan for the birthday money, but they don't have the ones I want so I wandered around for a while. They had gotten a big shipment of plants since I was there last week too.

Last week I had found this gorgeous succulent and planned on going back this weekend to get some, good thing I went back today because there were only three of them left....now they are mine.

This is all three of the Aeonium hybrid 'Zwartkop', they are such a dark purple that they look black and the Tradescantia x 'Sweet Kate'..aka Spiderwort. You can barely see some of the blue flowers already open.

This blog entry has been viewed 1626 times

Comments (8) | Leave a Comment

You're reading one of many blogs on GardenStew.com.
Register for free and start your own blog today.

Comments

glendann wrote on Wed May 09, 2007 5:59 pm:

I really like the deep color on those toni.Great finds.

dooley wrote on Wed May 09, 2007 7:24 pm:

My neighbor gave me six spiderwort plants in pots. They are all blooming. He has his in a window box on the end of their trailer. They trail over the box so I can't think where to put mine so they can trail down like that. Dooley

CritterPainter wrote on Wed May 09, 2007 7:41 pm:

Mmm, that purple will be a nice color punch somewhere!

jubabe296 wrote on Thu May 10, 2007 12:06 am:

I like the purple too! I wish I could make a trip to the garden center and only spend $3.50! The purple and light green make a good combination!

Gardenstew wrote on Thu May 10, 2007 1:05 pm:

I agree, that purple looks marvellous. Where do you plan on putting them Toni?

toni wrote on Thu May 10, 2007 1:21 pm:

I have been thinking of putting them to the right of the bloom house door, to the right as you look at it from outside.
The Cosmos I bought last week are going there and I thought the dark purple would look good in front of the orange of the cosmos.