Half price bedding plants

[HeyWayne]

Driving past my newly discovered local nursery and they have a sign up stating "all bedding plants 1/2 price"

My question is, they are all half price for a reason in that they'll presumably have a limited lifespan left - but what plants am I likely to get best value out of now?

My own flower bed at home has "gone over" mostly, the foxgloves are all spent, the knophophia (sp?) have all gone. I only have lobelia and some primula have just started to flower for a second time this year.

Any suggestions of what to look for?

[Two_Sheds]

what plants am I likely to get best value out of now?

Anything that you can propagate & keep alive for next year I've just bought two £1.50 pots of bedding dianthus that are going to give me 50+ new baby plants

[HeyWayne]

Is there an easy way to tell which plants can be propagated.

[Two_Sheds]

Um, no, I think that's down to experience. Off the top of my head: fuchsias & busy lizzy cuttings root in water. Pelargoniums & dianthus: cuttings in soil.

You'll need to keep these frost free but light all winter (I use an east-facing windowsill)

[HeyWayne]

Um, no, I think that's down to experience. Off the top of my head: fuchsias & busy lizzy cuttings root in water. Pelargoniums & dianthus: cuttings in soil.

You'll need to keep these frost free but light all winter (I use an east-facing windowsill)

Ah, I think that's where we'll fail. No East facing wall/windows. "Greenhouse" is against a west facing fence, with big trees to the West of that. Garden id hugely deprived of light during winter months.

Just need to buy stuff that will flower longest...

Thanks though TS, helpful as always, much appreciated.

[Two_Sheds]

Actually, any windowsill except north-facing would be OK. I've tried the northers, but it's really too dark and things just go mouldy

[Florence Fennel]

I've recently bought some reduced priced dahlias Wayne. They're in flower with plenty of buds and I can keep the tubers for next year.