I will stop by funeral homes in my area and get free plants and flowers that have been thrown away. It's customary for those attending a funeral to bring flowers, wreaths or plants to a funeral. If the people who were in charge of the funeral don't want to take everything home, the funeral home just throws them away in their dumpster bin. I go into the dumpster and can get a lot of great plants and flowers for free. Sometimes they are worth hundreds of dollars.

I always have fresh flowers in my house, and my house and garden are full of plants I have rescued from the funeral dumpsters. The ones I can't use, or when I get too many, I give them away.