I had a bit of a tidy up in my greenhouse, sorting out my yound plants of Begonia ‘Torsa’. Collected a lot of bulbils. Then I went round the plants of it I have in the garden and collected some more. I ended up with quite a lot, 473 to be precise.
Growild Nursery had them for sale on their website though I see they’re already sold out. I wonder if they want some more? They were selling them at £7 each. 473 x 7 = £3311.00
For the overwhelming majority of people in the world they would be worth precisely nothing. Sometimes the gap between the price of something and its value is unsettlingly wide.
garden ruminations 
Maybe you ought to offer your surplus bulbils to that nursery for a know down price, say £1 per bulbil, minimum 100 order? After all they are out of stock.
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Maybe I should, it’s not like I need that many in the garden. I was going to put some in the HPS raffle next meeting.
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Oh, I SO get it. The awesome bamboo palms that I brought back here would have been composted in Los Angeles. Heck, much of what I brought back just needed to be removed from Brent’s garden.
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You remind me that the last thing I was doing before I left Australia the last time I was there was hacking down a massive Strelitzia nicolai. Exotic greenhouse plant here, if you’ve a big enough greenhouse; bit of an untidy, unruly thug of a plant out there.
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Incidentally, I brought some of them back also.
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We so often find that we have large amounts of plant material which, in other hands, would be priced very highly but which simply ends up in the compos bin here. We feel the loss of a gardening community near us, people with whom we used swap bits and pieces, pass on our extras etc. The result is that what would be big value plants in other hands end up in the compost bin. I spent yesterday and today reducing the size of come clumps of watsonias – with a pickaxe, by the way – and three large sackfuls of bulbs ended up in the bin. In a way, such a waste but I have no other way to use them or pass them on.
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Every plant we grow is a green manure crop, whether it was planted for that purpose or not. So all the recycling is sustaining the soil, and nothing is more important ultimately than sustaining the soil. As philosophies go it’s shot full of holes but at least I’m spared the notion of anything being wasted.
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Ha ha. I always think that as I dig out Verbena bonariensis seedlings, Crocosmias etc.
I enjoyed watching November in your garden this morning as it poured down with rain here.
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It’s pouring here right now, it’d be an awful day for filming.
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Very true Jim and perhaps becoming more so.
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