If you live in or near a major city search craigslist.org for cheap plants

I check craigslist.org every now, farm+garden, and then for sales on perennials and plants. This weekend someone advertised 3 2.5 quart containers of perennials for $5.00 in suburbia. I bought lavender, verbena, soapwort and primrose and repotted into 5 gallon because a 2.5 pot is a bit smaller then a 1 gallon. Early in the spring I bought specific colored azaleas, foster holly, gardenia and repotted into 5 gallon and a 5 gallon Candy Stripe phlox subulata for $5.00 and took cuttings of the plant and planted 4-1 gallons. There are sometimes great deals instead of waiting for close-outs at big box stores. Also in the free people sometimes give away iris and daylilies if you dig. It is a wonderful place to find the plants to increase the color of your garden beds.