On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:36:26 +0100, Sacha
wrote:


A nursery in Jersey was just as you describe and then did just what you
describe. They avoided going broke by the skin of their teeth but it really
was a close call. When I took my husband there on one of our visits he
nearly fainted at their prices. Jersey is a finance centre and some of the
residents are rich but even so.........one friend of ours combines a long
week end trip to England with a visit to us and takes home a (large) car
load of plants

Some of which probably started their lives in the Netherlands, judging
from the ferries full of trucks carrying plants and small trees

and still reckons he gets the best of the deal. ;-)

Our local garden centre is closing, although they grow and sell very
nice plants, they don't have enough space to stock all the crap that
makes garden centres pay. I am sure that in a year the site will be
yet another overcrowded building site.