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Old 30-09-2013, 11:18 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default No SW RHS shows?

On 2013-09-29 22:41:39 +0100, Bob Hobden said:

"Sacha" wrote

I wonder why the RHS doesn't hold a regular annual show in the SW. I
think the nearest to us is in Cardiff. But for some reason, I can't get
onto their site to check that, atm. They did a sort of one-off at one
of the hotels in Torquay about 5 years ago but nothing since that I'm
aware of. You'd think with Rosemoor down here there'd be some
incentive, along with a big tourism industry, too.

But once you have been to one you have been to them all. The same
people exhibit and year after year, the same plants usually too, the
show gardens are just that and invariably unrealistic in the extreme
and certainly boring for a plants person, the food is dire and
expensive, the pushing and shoving to see anything dreadful, the
knowitalls who know nothing are always loud. Why would you want a show
in the SW?
Ps. Rosemoor is just too small anyway.


You may be right about Rosemoor, though some say that about Chelsea
now, too. I was really just struck by the fact there are no shows in
the SW when I was looking at the RHS web site and the different venues
where there are Shows. I suppose the nearest equivalents here are the
County shows, though the garden marquee at the Devon County Show
doesn't get much publicitiy but there is a lovely atmosphere at these
County shows and a terrific mix of interests, so perhaps it works out
better in the end, after all!
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Sacha
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