On 26/11/07 17:13, in article ,
"VivienB" wrote:

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:34:48 -0000, Charlie Pridham
wrote:

I am told (by someone in their employ) that the plants are ordered for a
show like Chelsea and are delivered for them to the show, they never even
visit cornwall, they justify this by claiming they are from "partener
nurseries" It gets worse, plants people order from them at the show are
not owned by the nursery but are sourced after and delivered direct from
the grower without ever visiting cornwall. I would not say the majority
do it, most are indeed proud of their plants but the fact that at least
one does (with the knowledge of the RHS apparently) means I have never
wanted to go.

This might explain why a nursery in Cornwall, which used to be
recommended often in magazines and broadsheet gardening pages for its
mail-order plants, was such a tatty-looking disappointment when I
visited it some years ago.

One in particular did so many shows that on visiting the actual nursery, we
did feel that attention to nursery business itself was spread too thinly.
But that was some years ago.
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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children.'