Any ideas how to get plants, flowers, seeds inexpensively?
There are vegetables that are really easy to grow from seeds:
- all kind of pumpkin/zucchini etc.
- runner beans (slightly poisonous if not cooked thoroughly)
seeds are generally inexpensive
Then there are seed that you can virtually peek up from the street; easy to grow are:
- acer trees
- taxus trees (poisonous)
Then there are plants that are really easy to grow from cuttings your friends, neighbours or relatives could give you - just put a twig in the ground, and it’ll root:
blackberries
hazelnut
forsythia (slightly poisonous)
some roses
geranium
ivy
all sorts of succulents: sempervivum, sedum, aptenia (if you live in the right zone), etc.
I once did pick up half-dead plants at a garden centre for 70% off; and they turned out to be beautiful at the end of summer; but you never hve the guarantee that they survive; and many garden centres do not like to do that - they rather burn that stuff to keep prices up.