On 2013-07-07 18:46:25 +0100, Rod said:
On Sunday, July 7, 2013 11:28:53 AM UTC+1, Sacha wrote:
We are not greedy, Baz. Please don't expect nurserymen and their staff
to work from 8 in the morning until 5 at night, or later, in all
weathers, so that you can pay too little for quite a lot. There's a
big difference between making a living and profiteering and
approximately 40p a plant for which someone else has done the basic
work and bought the seed, is hardly expensive! You appear to think we
should be a charity and give you cheap plants. Like every other
business, we have to pay wages, insurance, taxes, council tax, rates,
oil bills, maintenance and if we're lucky, eat. Just because these
are plants, there are a few people like you who appear to think a
nursery business is just an offshoot of hobby gardening and that they
should be sold for twopence. Very offensive.
Sacha
But don't forget Sacha, anybody can do it - it's just money growing on
trees in the nursery trade.
I'd like to see 'em try it for a couple of seasons if they last that long.
Rod
My stepson has a nominal 'day off' once a week. In practice, he spends
it delivering plants to customers, or talking to people who want
landscaping and gardening advice. So in fact, both he and Ray work
7/7. Few people not born to it can manage that.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk