You can set your clock by it – at 4pm on the last day of Tatton Show the heavens will open, and the exhibitors will squelchily haul plants out of the ground and hand bags of plant and mud to passers by in exchange for a few quid. Funny really – they’ll part with £5.00 for a puny (but labelled) plant in the plant marquee, but on the same day will think £5.00 pricy for the same plant, four times the size from a show garden. I think I just haven’t got the gift of the gab when it comes to sales.
So that’s it for another year. Eight build days, five days of chatting, smiling, handing out leaflets and answering garden questions, three ‘Plants for free’ talks in the Gardening in Action tent and four tours for Harvey Nichols prize winners. Hopefully just two days to take it all down again. Probably in the rain.
The really good news is that the garden is going to a community allotment project in Levenshulme. This group has a site cleared ready and is (hopefully!) turning up tomorrow with a van and a pile of fresh, strong volunteers. Win/Win as far as I’m concerned. I’ll post some pics of the garden’s new home when I get them…
4 Responses to “Tatton’s sqidgy end”
You could always go back to IT like my son. He only works 60-70 hours a week and sometimes he has the whole weekend off.
A doddle compared to your chosen career !
…and never to be far from our thoughts! Today you had a spread in Garden News. The garden is looking good and we must try and trek over to see it again.
Thanks Sue! We all got back to Levenshulme in one piece and apart from me nealry burning the clutch out of the lorry doing a ten minute reverse up to the allotment site – the heavily laden van made it too! Not sure if i can put pics on here so i'll email them to the nursury. We had a few more volunteers at the other end and we were unloaded and had the van returned by 6. Ruth is calling a design meeting and ive contacted the local press – so you'll hear from us soon, thanks again jamie
Jamie – delighted to hear you made it back in one piece – I had to cover my eyes when you were driving down the nursery track!
It's win/win all round for my part – the first time we've cleared the site and been signed off on the second breakdown day. It's a huge relief. Thanks for the pics – let me know when you're ready for some plants