We are lucky in that a local mursery gives us a lot of their discards - success rate is often low; and sometimes it takes a couple years to get a good display - but what do you want for nothing?

We have a beautiful magnolia that the dear ate the leader shoot; and the six foot tree became a foot high stub; now, is is a gorgeous multi trunked tree well over our roofline. The draiveway is lined with "freebie" rhodies; and my wine coloured periweinkle was in the pot of a fir that didn't make it....but the periwinkle did!