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OT - sort of
On 2013-10-15 17:27:53 +0100, Jake said:
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:07:46 +0100, sacha wrote: Some years ago, we even had a garden designer from Madeira buying things here which were supposedly native there but which he couldn't find there! Try and find a copy of Russell Page's "Education of a Gardener" (out of print but often a couple of quid on Amazon Marketplace). He talks about having to venture far afield when designing gardens around the Mediterranean because local growers only grew a couple of varieties which the "more common" locals would buy. Think how much effort we need to make to find that just slightly unusual summer bedding plant - places which stopped selling Walleriana 6-packs replaced them on the shelves with Begonia 6-packs, not New Guinea 6-packs - round here at least you can only but NGs in garden centres as large plants for £5+ each. Interesting, Jake, I'll pass that on to The Bosses. But it seems to me that this whole business is a bit like supermarkets moving into an area, causing smaller family-run businesses to close down. The erstwhile customers of those butchers, greengrocers and bakers then have no choice but to buy what the supermarket has for sale. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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