QVC Garden TSV 16/03/25

[Grizelda]

I bought a tray of winter pansies from B&M last autumn. Planted them in 4 hanging pots. They didn’t get much bigger, but flowers stayed all winter, so they looked nice. Over the last 2 weeks, as the weather picked up they have suddenly gone mad! Beginning to grow bigger and thicker, and the pansies have exploded! It looks like they’ll look lovely all through the summer. I think I paid about £3.50 for a tray of 12.

I bought a tray of winter pansies from B&M last autumn. Planted them in 4 hanging pots. They didn’t get much bigger, but flowers stayed all winter, so they looked nice. Over the last 2 weeks, as the weather picked up they have suddenly gone mad! Beginning to grow bigger and thicker, and the pansies have exploded! It looks like they’ll look lovely all through the summer. I think I paid about £3.50 for a tray of 12.

Mine are the same. Beautiful single colours and vari coloured. My favourite are the rusty coloured ones, and, of course, the purple.

 

[AndiK]

I bought a tray of winter pansies from B&M last autumn. Planted them in 4 hanging pots. They didn’t get much bigger, but flowers stayed all winter, so they looked nice. Over the last 2 weeks, as the weather picked up they have suddenly gone mad! Beginning to grow bigger and thicker, and the pansies have exploded! It looks like they’ll look lovely all through the summer. I think I paid about £3.50 for a tray of 12.

I’ve been waiting for my local Lidl to get the little plants in as they used to, and I’ve had loads from there, but even when they’ve been in the leaflet, they haven’t arrived in this store - probably because head office knows how useless the staff are at keeping them alive and after a day or so indoors with no watering, they wilt and presumably get thrown out . I planted up a trough of primulas (I think) from there last year and would have re-planted it this year but the primulas suddenly came back to life a couple of weeks ago and look like new with no work at all - which delights me because I don’t know what I’m doing. Anyway, I am going to the retail park today and there’s a big B&Q so I shall check out their plants. I know you said B&M but it reminded me, thanks!

 

[Clothescloth]

I always buy my plants from either Lidl, Aldi, B&M,etc. and have never been disappointed!

 

[Peppermint Patti]

I’ve been waiting for my local Lidl to get the little plants in as they used to, and I’ve had loads from there, but even when they’ve been in the leaflet, they haven’t arrived in this store - probably because head office knows how useless the staff are at keeping them alive and after a day or so indoors with no watering, they wilt and presumably get thrown out . I planted up a trough of primulas (I think) from there last year and would have re-planted it this year but the primulas suddenly came back to life a couple of weeks ago and look like new with no work at all - which delights me because I don’t know what I’m doing. Anyway, I am going to the retail park today and there’s a big B&Q so I shall check out their plants. I know you said B&M but it reminded me, thanks!

My poinsettia from Lidl bought at the beginning of December £2.99 is still going strong.
Our Lidl seems to have staff that know plants need watering

 

[AndiK]

My poinsettia from Lidl bought at the beginning of December £2.99 is still going strong.
Our Lidl seems to have staff that know plants need watering

I’m pleased some do. I did say something to the guy on the door once and he said he was security as if to say “nothing to do with me” (even though he was always getting the wheelie baskets from the tills to put by the entrance and putting items back on shelves). Anyway, I did see him watering the plants with water from the cut flower buckets as I left so mission accomplished! But generally, yes, their plants and flowers are good. I buy myself a simple bunch of roses or tulips to remember my parents’ birthdays and mother’s/father’s days, and the ones from Lidl always last well.

 

[Cashers]

Changing the subject a little - I've just flicked over to QVC and some Dig Club programme is on. To say I'm gobsmacked is an understatement. Four miserable looking perennials in dirty plastic pots for £57 plus postage and packing. They were bog standard ones that sell in the garden centre I work in for £4.50 to £6.50 each. That's £26 max, not £60. This is just a total rip off. How on earth can they justify this price??
Oh god, and now it's the awful Eyelid. I do love gardening programmes but I'm giving this a miss. I think there's a 40 year old Columbo film on somewhere!!

 

[Dylina]

I’m sure QVC could sell you a faux bee, battery operated, with fairy lights.

All the bee without the sting.

 

[AndiK]

All the bee without the sting.

The sting will be the £5.95 P&P

 

[Toril]

Changing the subject a little - I've just flicked over to QVC and some Dig Club programme is on. To say I'm gobsmacked is an understatement. Four miserable looking perennials in dirty plastic pots for £57 plus postage and packing. They were bog standard ones that sell in the garden centre I work in for £4.50 to £6.50 each. That's £26 max, not £60. This is just a total rip off. How on earth can they justify this price??
Oh god, and now it's the awful Eyelid. I do love gardening programmes but I'm giving this a miss. I think there's a 40 year old Columbo film on somewhere!!

I caught that, with its eye watering prices. There was one set for £314.88 for 21 established plants. They were small so how many years would you have to wait until they were established? I would be very surprised if they sold out of even the smaller sets when you consider the size of the plants that Ken sells.

I had to mute the sound though because Katherine seemed very hyper. She used to be so calm.

 

[Cashers]

I caught that, with its eye watering prices. There was one set for £314.88 for 21 established plants. They were small so how many years would you have to wait until they were established? I would be very surprised if they sold out of even the smaller sets when you consider the size of the plants that Ken sells.

I had to mute the sound though because Katherine seemed very hyper. She used to be so calm.

I've given up watching today. Gardening is such a mindful, peaceful hobby, good for our mental health etc. There wasn't one programme that I saw today that was remotely enjoyable. Hyper, shouty, loud. Someone seriously needs to have a word.

 

[Grizelda]

I've given up watching today. Gardening is such a mindful, peaceful hobby, good for our mental health etc. There wasn't one programme that I saw today that was remotely enjoyable. Hyper, shouty, loud. Someone seriously needs to have a word.

I love the garden shows, but today, every time I checked, it was bird food or moss eliminator. I don't have mossy grass and I don't want bird sh*t all over the place. The bird feeders they show are pristine clean. Soon, they will be covered with white lyme. And I agree with you about the high pitched selling. It's not necessary to shout at people.

 

[mossie]

Agree about about bird food they are milking it both jackson and the grumpy gardener both of them get on my thruppeny bits at the best of times but i always feed small birds it is a good thing to do

 

[Clothescloth]

Sadly I had to take down my multi station bird feeders, although they attracted the little birds, which was lovely, it also attracted the rats!

 

[Battiola73]

I always buy my plants from either Lidl, Aldi, B&M,etc. and have never been disappointed!

I’ve still got a climbing rose that was bought in Woolworths for 2 shilling and 6 pence old money (12.5p). That was in 1969 and still going strong.

 

[candycane]

Changing the subject a little - I've just flicked over to QVC and some Dig Club programme is on. To say I'm gobsmacked is an understatement. Four miserable looking perennials in dirty plastic pots for £57 plus postage and packing. They were bog standard ones that sell in the garden centre I work in for £4.50 to £6.50 each. That's £26 max, not £60. This is just a total rip off. How on earth can they justify this price??
Oh god, and now it's the awful Eyelid. I do love gardening programmes but I'm giving this a miss. I think there's a 40 year old Columbo film on somewhere!!

I commented on this a few weeks ago. What ridiculous nonsense Dig Club is, some guy that was on Dragon's Den now trying to flog ordinary plants for a monster price. If you want a ready made border, Plants 2 Gardens sell a whole border's worth of plants for a fraction of this price. I was very good over the weekend, I only bought 3 blue poppy plug plants. I managed to grow one of these before with help from RJ's gardening club so I'm going to have another go.

CC

 

[Cashers]

I commented on this a few weeks ago. What ridiculous nonsense Dig Club is, some guy that was on Dragon's Den now trying to flog ordinary plants for a monster price. If you want a ready made border, Plants 2 Gardens sell a whole border's worth of plants for a fraction of this price. I was very good over the weekend, I only bought 3 blue poppy plug plants. I managed to grow one of these before with help from RJ's gardening club so I'm going to have another go.

CC

How QVC can relate these rip off items to their "V" in value is beyond me. They obviously think very little of their customers.

 

[Peppermint Patti]

I’ve still got a climbing rose that was bought in Woolworths for 2 shilling and 6 pence old money (12.5p). That was in 1969 and still going strong.

We've got a camellia that we bought as a twig from somewhere, very cheap. . We've been here 25 years and it's a big bush but we have an even bigger bush from a layered cutting we took from it about 10 years ago.

 

[Toril]

Going back to the quality of yesterday’s TSV, in an earlier post I mentioned the hanging basket that I bought when it was a previous TSV. I did have a hanging basket with real flowers which didn’t survive. I then bought a faux pansy one from Costco that looked 100% more “realistic” than yesterday’s pansies but which eventually bit the dust and so I replaced it with the one in the photo below. I know that it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea but it still looks like new and I’ve done nothing to it and I think it brightens up the front door area. I don’t use the lights but at least you wouldn’t know that there were any in the basket because they weren’t draped all over the “arrangement” when it turned up like yesterday’s were.