A CHUFFED shopper who couldn’t resist boasting about the £9.99 Home Bargains buy she got for 50p has been warned her delight may be short-lived.
Kellie was at the Bentley Bridge retail park in Wolverhampton when she came across some cute little which had been slashed to
Thrilled, she picked up four, and took to the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK group on Facebook to share her epic find.
“My little bargain small bushes reduced to 50p each from £9.99,”; she wrote alongside pictures of the plants.
“A few left in the store by the tills.”;
She added that she’d trimmed the bushes and planted them, so “hopefully they will grow”;.
However, the comments section was quickly inundated with other green-fingered shoppers issuing Kellie a warning about the little bushes.
“! We had to rip out all of ours this year from the garden as the little b**gers got to ours!”; one wrote.
“Bushes that had been growing for more than 10 years gone in weeks as they destroyed them.
“They are unfortunately ruining all of these bushes – just be aware!!”;
“Mine too, hundreds of the bleddy things at the all they could eat buffet!”; another agreed.
“20 plus years and all gone in couple of weeks!”;
“I bought two from Home Bargains last year,”; a third wrote.
“Within 2 weeks they were dead along with so many others I had.
“Check for caterpillars!”;
“I had well established bushes like these,”; someone else sighed.
“All got eaten within weeks by a caterpillar. Tried to grow back, got eaten again.
“You’ll need to treat these regularly.”;
“Check for caterpillars!”; another warned.
“I’ve got box bushes in my garden and this year the moth caterpillars have ravaged them!”; someone else said.
“They go brown and have what looks like cobwebs on.
“I and sprayed the bush with washing up liquid/water.”;
“I have them all around my front garden but all huge now,”; Kellie replied.
“Been in 10 years – more like hedges now lol – but never heard of that.
“I will be keeping the new ones in pots, thank you!”;
