While off on vacation, Dave and I had to run into Sarnia to get a few things. Since it was early afternoon, I decided to stop at a few of my favourite garden centre/nurseries. They close at 6pm during the week, and tend to be very busy on the weekends, so I don’t get there as often as I would like.

I told Dave I wasn’t going to buy anything unless it was a really good deal… but you know me.

I did get a crazy good deal on a giant Philodendron Hope house plant. I forgot to take a picture in time for this post, but it’s the one that looks like this

It was in their clearance section, and I have no idea why. I’ve bought house plants from their clearance section before, and they are usually plants that need a little love and care to come back to life. This one was absolutely perfect, healthy, and HUGE!!!

In my other favourite nursery, I was looking for something specific. It’s the nursery where I got the pink Coreopsis las year, and I wanted to see if they had any I didn’t already have.

Happily, they did – this beautiful pink and yellow one. So pretty.

I also got this fancy black-eyed Susan.

It’s called Denver Daisy, and it’s similar to one I have already, except it’s got a lot more petals – almost a double bloom. There were also three separate plants in the pot (which was only $5), so I spread it around the garden. It was marked as an annual, but some places do that with biennials (which these are) because they are short lived. But, as long as I make sure it’s seeds get to the ground, I should have no problem getting it to come back each year.

They also had these beautiful peach mini carnations.

Carnations aren’t one of my fave flowers, but I’m sucker for flowers that are peach, apricot, etc.. so two of them came home with me!

After that it was off to our regular stops.

At Home Depot, they didn’t have anything tempting on clearance, but they did have an absolutely gorgeous Passion Flower vine in a hanging pot.

Just look at that stunning bloom – how could I resist?

But it was a Rona where I hit the jackpot. Not all of it was on clearance, but it was worth it anyway. They are starting to bring out the fall colour – most of it is annuals (asters, mums, ornamental cabbages, etc.), but they also had some coneflowers in pots. Normally, coneflowers wouldn’t turn my head – I have so many already – but these ones were special.

They arere these funky, two-toned coneflowers! Like the susans, these were three to a pot (but for $20, not $5 – still a good price for three fancy coneflowers) so I spread them around the garden. One has yet to bloom, so it’s colours are still a mystery.

They were just finally starting to put their perennials on clearance and I snapped a few up.

They had this lovely mauvey Yarrow. You know my love for Yarrow, so I was thrilled to add in a new colour.

I also picked up a White Penstemon, but it’s not in bloom so no picture (it’s a late spring bloomer). I had one before inside the catio, but I think it got sat on too many times and died off.

In addition, two pink Pincushion plants came home with me too. I already have one in the sidewalk garden, but at $1.25 each, it was worth it to add a couple more to the garden. But no pics because apparently I forgot to take those too!

Happily, these all fit into existing holes in the garden, but I’m definitely going to have to expand the gardens next spring.