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We've just spent a day at Tresco, a lovely sunny day and superb
gardens full of exotics. But does anyone know why they have such an abysmal selection of plants for sale? I would have thought they would have done a roaring trade and it would be well worth their while, let alone reducing the risk of people being tempted to take the odd cutting.... It must be a conscious decision on their part, but why? -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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Chris Hogg wrote in
: We've just spent a day at Tresco, a lovely sunny day and superb gardens full of exotics. But does anyone know why they have such an abysmal selection of plants for sale? I would have thought they would have done a roaring trade and it would be well worth their while, let alone reducing the risk of people being tempted to take the odd cutting.... It must be a conscious decision on their part, but why? Lots of places that are primarily 'gardens to visit' seem to be like that. I've had the same experience at Ness Gardens on the Wirral, and Rosemoor, and several National Trust places too. So frustrating, when you really want to buy the plants you've seen florishing in the gardens, (or even just buy a cutting or a paper twist of seeds!) but instead you are confronted with a few over-priced and sometimes even neglected specimens of plants you could find in any garden center. I assume it's because they either don't have a proper sales manager, or they have one who is a fairly junior member of staff with little horticultural training. I now don't bother with the sales sections at such places: I take notes and order things I like online later. I have often thought that a roving cutting-salesman would be a good idea in some gardens - goes with you to the plant you like, takes a cutting that will not damage the plant with clean secateurs, labels it, and provides a little pack to keep it safe, damp and un-crushed till you get it home. I bet that would reduce the number of cuttings 'stolen', and provide a useful little extra revenue stream on busy days. Victoria -- gardening on a north-facing hill in South-East Cornwall -- |
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Chris Hogg wrote in
: We've just spent a day at Tresco, a lovely sunny day and superb gardens full of exotics. But does anyone know why they have such an abysmal selection of plants for sale? I would have thought they would have done a roaring trade and it would be well worth their while, let alone reducing the risk of people being tempted to take the odd cutting.... It must be a conscious decision on their part, but why? Lots of places that are primarily 'gardens to visit' seem to be like that. I've had the same experience at Ness Gardens on the Wirral, and Rosemoor, and several National Trust places too. So frustrating, when you really want to buy the plants you've seen florishing in the gardens, (or even just buy a cutting or a paper twist of seeds!) but instead you are confronted with a few over-priced and sometimes even neglected specimens of plants you could find in any garden center. I assume it's because they either don't have a proper sales manager, or they have one who is a fairly junior member of staff with little horticultural training. I now don't bother with the sales sections at such places: I take notes and order things I like online later. I have often thought that a roving cutting-salesman would be a good idea in some gardens - goes with you to the plant you like, takes a cutting that will not damage the plant with clean secateurs, labels it, and provides a little pack to keep it safe, damp and un-crushed till you get it home. I bet that would reduce the number of cuttings 'stolen', and provide a useful little extra revenue stream on busy days. Victoria -- gardening on a north-facing hill in South-East Cornwall -- |
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from Chris Hogg contains these words: We've just spent a day at Tresco, a lovely sunny day and superb gardens full of exotics. But does anyone know why they have such an abysmal selection of plants for sale? I would have thought they would have done a roaring trade and it would be well worth their while, let alone reducing the risk of people being tempted to take the odd cutting.... It must be a conscious decision on their part, but why? Someone told me recently Tresco make £20,000 pa from their plant sales. Janet. |
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"Chris Hogg" wrote in message ... We've just spent a day at Tresco, a lovely sunny day and superb gardens full of exotics. But does anyone know why they have such an abysmal selection of plants for sale? I would have thought they would have done a roaring trade and it would be well worth their while, let alone reducing the risk of people being tempted to take the odd cutting.... It must be a conscious decision on their part, but why? -- Chris Had a chat with Mike N. about the very same thing, aparently they had a nursery grew lots of lovely things then found most visitors were detered from buying by the transport problems so closed the nursery (they still produce for the garden) All that was there when we stayed were a few pelagoniums (worse than the NT!) -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs) |
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