On 7/7/06 08:30, in article , "June
Hughes" wrote:

In message , Sacha
writes
We got back today, having spent all of yesterday at the Show. We thought
the 'Volvo garden' absolutely lovely, really beautiful. Has anyone else
been yet?
I am rather ashamed to say that you came all the way from Devon and I
haven't been to the show from here, which is only a reasonable distance
away - not sure how far to Hampton Court but it is quite awkward to get
to. Chris, who used to post here years ago, had a stand there for a
couple of shows. I can't remember her last name, even though we used to
correspond by email. Perhaps someone else can remember. Are you going
to consider taking a stand there in the future?

It's a fair hike from here but we did stay at a hotel which is bang opposite
the entrance, so that made it a bit easier! However, it also makes it an
expensive 'outing'. OTOH, we had two nights 'holiday' and spent 7 hours at
the show, visiting the Palace next day and a nursery near Richmond. I
haven't been there since I was about 8! But no, it really isn't viable for
us to take a stand at such a show. It would be outrageously expensive in
terms of getting stuff up there to display, then more stuff to sell and
accommodation for us and/or our nursery staff. I think that for nurseries
that do mail order, it's probably worth it if their operation is large
enough. But as we don't do mail order and don't want to, it wouldn't really
do us much good. Exhibiting at local shows seems to be more commercial use
to us and we may well do the Devon and Cornwall shows next year.

We went to the Royal Norfolk Show last Thursday, which was great but too
hot. It is more livestock based. Can't have everything.

That sounds like our County Show but we did find a lot of people came
through the floral marquee and quite a few new customers have turned up on
the basis that they saw us there.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(email address on website)