– Get plants for free. Check Craig’s list (www.craigslist.com), Freecycle (www.freecycle.org), and your local gardening club for trades and giveaways. Gardening enthusiasts are always dividing plants and not knowing what to do with extras. You can often get good sized bushes for free from landscapers, too: They are always digging out something their customers don’t want so they can plant what they do. You can take the old plants off their hands.

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