Free Flowers

by Mary Ann Romans | More from this Blogger

18 Oct 2007 03:08 PM

Want to stock your garden with beautiful high quality flowers without spending a cent? Then you'll want to read this article. I'll tell you how.

I think the price of flowers is pretty crazy these days, but there is really no reason to pay for them. That is because you can easily find dozens of perennial flowers for free. These flowers, although they will bloom year after year, are routinely dug up from the front of businesses and thrown in the trash. Professional landscapers are paid to keep the areas of these businesses always blooming, and so they change out the flowers on a seasonal basis. The businesses aren't worried about thrift, and the landscapers couldn't be bothered trying to save any of the flowers, so out they go.

If you ask the landscapers if you can have some of the flowers they are pulling out, chances are that they will give you all that you want. And they will probably be extra careful removing them, since they know the flowers will be getting a new life somewhere else.

Some of the places that routinely discard flowers are large business parks, housing complexes, housing developments, condo associations, large independent businesses, restaurants, strip malls, regular retail malls, hospitals and retirement homes.

If you never see any of the workers around, you can go into the business and ask, leaving your name and telephone number.

The flowers will make you have to work pretty hard and pretty quick to get them all in the ground, but it will be worth it. You'll be rewarded with a yard full of beautiful flowers when they all bloom. As an added benefit, you may get some ideas on how to arrange the flowers from seeing how they were planted originally. So you get the flowers and a design for free.

Mary Ann Romans writes about everything related to saving money in the Frugal Blog, technology in the Computing Blog, and creating a home in the Home Blog. You can read more of her articles by clicking here.

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Mary Ann Romans is a freelance writer, wife and mother of three children. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, the kids and a 16-pound cat.

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