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50% Off All Thompson & Morgan Flower & Vegetable Seeds
50% off all seeds from Thompson & Morgan. This offer ends at midnight, 4th June

Karen

Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.thompson-morgan.com/seeds1/may-sales/seed-sale-all.html

It's trouble all right, but I did really need some lobelia for next year and a few other things and always nice to try some you've never grown before. Even at 1/2 they add up too fast, and shipping was I think $6.95 the cheapest way.

I had to pass up those New Zealand double delphs; the seeds are expensive and you only get 10 per pkt. I think I've got one more ordinary dark blue w/white eye delph germinated out there in a tray.

ok I see some problems there- Link is for England 50% off
Email notification is for 40% off for US- and the prices are lousy as far as I could see- huge mark up so those 40% off looks like regular price somewhere
anyone is seeing it?

Ellens right about the Uk thing, when I clicked on the US flag, it changed to 40% off.

Anything they don't sell will end up in July on valueseeds.com for 99cents per pack with $1.99 shipping on all orders. Just saying.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, I did not read the email but hopped on over there. Thanks for catching that. As I was filling my cart, the sale prices on most looked the same as last year's sale, should have done the math.

I can live with 40%.

Sorry if I led anybody astray.

"Anything they don't sell will end up in July on valueseeds.com for 99cents per pack"

Not necesarily. For whatever reason, they don't put EVERYTHING at value seeds. Some of it stays on their own sale site. Lots of stuff doesn't make it to value seeds. So if there is a "must have" get it at the percent off sale. If you are comfortable gambling, wait on valueseeds.

I don't keep it bookmarked and accidentally ended up on the UK site until I saw the pound sign. They seemed to be sold out of what little I looked at.

I kind of agree with seedmama. I use seeds to get nice plants that would be a lot more expensive and hard to find if I bought them in packs.

For vegetables, it could be a bit different. I've not used value seeds, but struck it rich with some beautiful coreopsis that come back every year and have spread, in a sale bin for 25 cents, they looked double on the watercolor illustration on the pkt, then grew single, then last year turned double, wonder what I'll get this year.

Here I thought maybe I was the bearer of good tidings :-(

I must like to gamble. I did buy Cherry Brandy Rudbeckia from them knowing their poor germination rates. ;)

just spent $35 dollars there. I don't feel too bad because I got some of my most wanted seeds!

Amy

token, that's odd. I just finished planting 3 Cherry Brandy I got from Bluestone's sale. It looks like a pretty one. I managed to get two nice Prairie sun from WS last year. My sister looked at it and remarked that usually she didn't like Rudbeckia, but that one was pretty. I kind of feel the same way, but they're growing on me.

There's one on the cover of Bluestone, they were sold out by their sale, I'd like that one. Rudbeckia Moreno, don't know how it would work with my color scheme. The nice thing about Rudbeckia is that once they start blooming, they don't quit until frost.

What on earth do I have on my receipt here? Eryngium giganteum, Miss Wilmott's Ghost. Sure don't remember buying that.

I'm trying Euphorbia marginata, Lupin Band of Nobles Mixed, should have skipped the stupid forget-me-nots, the lobelia, 3 packets, mentioned above, and was happy to find Blue Daddy petunia, 2 of those. If it goes purple on me, I'm going to be mad. Got some Limnanthes douglasii because it said it attracts bugs that eat aphids. Nora Barlow Aquilegia, never tried growing Aq from seed.

I end up never planting half the seeds I buy, and the ones I do plant, half don't end up in my garden even if I manage to get them germinated.

I'm with token; I had decent germination the first year I used them (05/06 WS year), but I can't say that it's been spectacular since then.
I'll wait to see what lands at VS. But thanks!!!

I can't say that germination was spectacular but it was ok, few seeds were duds. I try not to buy anything that difficult to germinate from T&M. It would be too bad to nurse something for while and never know if it were seeds to begin with. Still I spent couple of $$ on this sale, few items were reasonably priced and I have not found them elsewhere. I had tried last year Seedman sale in the fall and had spectacular failure on their veggies. Do not think I ever will order from them again. Over the years I found few companies I know have consistent great germination rates so I will stick with them. Of course, VS is good choice as long as you do not put your hopes sky high- it is still same T&M seed.
Exchanges are great to- I do NARGS exchange every year and did Primrose society last year- got tons of primulas growing. Will do Lily society this year as well- those are some of my favorites and joy to try.

aliska- The Candy Mtn Foxglove is still at Valueseeds for 99¢ Look under Digitalis.

Nice to know some of the seeds will land on Value Seeds in July...

There were some things I want to get but I have a feeling hubby will be so mad if I order. I keep putting things in my cart then deleting them.

Anyone care to help out and post when value seeds has some of them? I will keep looking there. I liked a lot of Value Seeds anyway. Plus I am cheap :) Also, Plan to shop at CheapSeeds.com they have some white poppy seeds I want.

Karen

mmqchdygg, I should take a look at that but have already bought too many seeds. That is one I really like though. I could try to save seeds from the one I have going now, don't know how w/foxglove, and am a little wary that maybe the plant may have lost its vigor and not produce the best seeds.

I will give that plant some bloom booster if it comes back or if I get any more seedlings.

My darn white foxglove, I went out with my camera this am, and the thing's blooms are facing the foundation of the house which is white! It must be confused and gets more reflected light than from the actual sun which is a scant 6 hours there.

I was looking forward to seeing that one bloom, well it doesn't look normal.

The partial good news today is that some seeds are starting to sprout in my milk jugs. I had them all taped up, ventilated and labelled, but you should not try that in spring. They were rapidly getting moldy plus I was in a hurry and usually run my things through a bucket of bleach water & rinse well. There were some milk rings in a couple jugs, always rinse but there it was, maybe that didn't help. So I frantically looked for what to do, sprayed with dilute H2O2, ripped off all the tape (packing tape this time, much easier), opened up the jugs, had to leave top hinged part on and pegged to ground because I taped my labels on the handles. THEN I had to cover it all with chicken wire and peg THAT to the ground as best I could because of chipmunks and squirrels.

I placed an order from T & M during their 50% off sale last year, and my problem with them wasn't the germination rates, but the fact that several packets had way less seeds in them than they were supposed to.

Plus, the fact that my beds are now full, and I've run out of pots for the rest of my wintersown sprouts that are waiting to be planted, is a sign that I should stay away from their website until the sale is over.

Bonnie

To clarify my comment on gambling...It referred only to whether or not T&M seeds would make it to the valueseeds site. I have been generally satisfied with germination from both T&M and valueseeds.

I know seedmama. I can't really think of any seed I have to have at this point. So I wait until Valueseeds.com gets back to 13+ pages of seeds. Then I drool.

I have found it odd that the more expensive seed companies seem to have less germination than the cheaper ones. I had great luck with Park Seeds, but they do short change you on the seed count sometimes. At least those in the packs germinate.

Valueseeds.com it is for me...
Much cheaper! Plus if I order seeds right now my hubby might divorce me :)
Karen

don't worry, Karen; you know we're just a bunch of enablers here. Someone will definitely post when VS is updated.

thanks mmqchdygg!! I figured everyone here would help out :)

We are enablers aren't we? Each time I see a post of a flower I end up wanting some seeds

Karen