Last week when shopping in Brigg Joe and I walked past a florist's shop with a display of potted daffs on the pavement outside.

"They look nice," I said, and Joe went in and bought a pot at £1.99.

We went on to Lidl and, just inside the door there was a large display of potted daffs at something like £2.80 a pot.

"Yours were a good buy," I said, but then we noticed that the Lidl pots were nice ones for display, not bog standard plastic ones.

Next to the daffs in the nice pots were bulbs in bog standard pots at 87p. I bought a pot.

Here they are.
Daffs
Joe's are on the left, and mine are on the right. Both are tete-a-tete variety. Both pots contain four bulbs and a bulblet. Let's see whether there is any difference in how well they last and how many flowers they produce. So far mine are 2.28 times better value.

Ignore the brass containers: they are mine, and have been in the family for four generations (five counting Joe) the one on the left belonged to great-granny Jones, and the one on the right to great-grandma Turner. And I must remember to put brass polish on my shopping list.