Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

A Dobbie's opened up nearish to us on the Speke retail park. Since then my favourate nursery has closed as they lost so much business. Been sold for housing. :mad: They grew a lot of their own stuff, and had good selections of perennials. Plus they always had half price decorations sale from Boxing Day to New Year, had some wonderful deccies from them that I simply wouldn't have felt able to buy otherwise. We do have a nursery closer by, but it's a lot smaller so less choice of plants. But we intend to try and use it more as don't want to lose another local one. They've opened up a tea shop, so we might go and try that out when we get some spare time.

I still use the smaller enterprises if I can , they can often tell you far more about the plants suitability etc. I feel so sad for ALL small business losing out to the biggies..
we are quite lucky here [NF] that PP restricts big builds so the smaller ones thrive better

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

LIR.... ive been trying to ring you [landline]...
I have a team of electricians and plumbers turned up to do air extractors/shower etc downstairs and my bathroom .. surveyor chap forgot to tell me !! so im stuck here. so sorry but will make it asap. poss next weekend ?
I know I shouldn't complain that works are being done [as others seek workmen ] but they picked the wrong day !


apparently plasterer is coming tomorrow....

Ok.......don't worry! ( I'd nipped out for........scaly leg spray :mad:)

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all,

Beautiful day yesterday and today..

Moved a few pigs around diff pens yesterday, and the wraners are now totally away from mam. We left them longer than normal with her, so now they are in the new run which I is huge and like a jungle. We were going to take them to the next market, but might leave it, as the way they are growing.. They will be ' ready' by august.

Managed to have a sneaky day off today, lol.. So will def try and clean my car out. Its worse than worse.. Its more like a skip on wheels :cool::D

phoebe1989seb

Fay wrote: »

Phoebe which garden centre do you go to if you don't mind me asking. A friend is looking for some giant sized planters. Sounds like there are some good places over there by you. I'm still hoping for s trip to David Austin in the next few weeks.

Hi Fay

The one we went to yesterday is Ashwood Nursery in Kingswinford, think that's the best one we've discovered locally......so far Regarding David Austin, we did find that their rose prices are higher than other stockists - £19.99 per rose compared to £16.99 in some places. Back in Wiltshire one nursery had them for £10.99!

Sunny here today so hopefully can get on with some work in the garden

lostinrates

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

ome places. Back in Wiltshire one nursery had them for £10.99!

Sunny here today so hopefully can get on with some work in the garden

Which nursery please?

alfie_1

our local nursery does david austen but generally £16.99. nice big healthy plants but not the cheapest...
isn't the main nursery near to you LIR ?


well I now have those lights that come on by sensor plus fan when I walk into doorway of shower /loo rooms downstairs....great BUT that door is prone to opening by way of the draught between front door and patio doors ... they have shown me switch to put light isolated so just fan comes on by sensor ...
upstairs, my bathroom has same but ive separated that as cat is always going in there at night and it would be like living in a lighthouse.... cat likes to chase her tail sliding up and down the bath.. !!


they are just finishing tidying the wiring and putting carpets back..
feel like ive wasted half a day now.. even tho I know the guys im not keen on not being here..

choille

Maggie I hadn't realised that Tesco own Dobbies. Did find it strange that they have the same entrance. It's all new to me as going into Inverness retail park is too. Like a kid with my nose pressed against the glass.
There's a lovely little garden centre near Inverewe & all the plants are outdoors so you know that they will survive.
There i flat worm round about, but I've never seen it here thankfully.
Quite dull here & midgied to hell.Jut been packing stuff to post & doing paper work boring stuff.
Since hairy cat started going out he's never used his tray. He' really clean, which is a blessing living in a confined space.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

( I'd nipped out for........scaly leg spray :mad:)

We are trying the old fashioned method of putting thick layers of Vaseline on as they go to roost. Bloomin' time-consuming, but they get nice shiny legs, and my hands are a lot softer! :rotfl:

Nurseries can't survive based on the old model. Everywhere needs a tea room/coffee shop and lots of tat....some of it preferably expensive tat!

We have a family-run garden centre less than 2 miles away as the corvids fly, which probably helps our gate sales a bit. Their perennials are around £7 - £9, so ours at £3 compare very favourably. They have a good value tea room,. which pulls them through in the winter months.

Lovely here. I'm out zapping thistles and docks, then treating hen house 2, ready for the long overdue switch-over.:o

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

I still use the smaller enterprises if I can

I try to, but here we are, new week and we've had to lay our builder off, because there's still no sign of the skirtings and architraves ordered a week ago. :mad:

lostinrates

I love the smaller nurseries for plants. The bigger ones are certainly worth visiting for inspiration and bargain corner.

We are lucky, we have quite a few around us. I nipped into one of mole valleys brothers this morning and had a browse and the garden bit there was telling me I wouldn't beat £7 for the perennials they had. The big garden care bus trips go to near but certainly sells some at around 12. Its a shame because just a few years ago when we came here they had a really interesting range of stuff and I thought we'd found the neatly impossible big centre that were also really interested in planty plants.

A couple of years a go I was sitting in the plant advice bit trying to describe to them what I had seem on Chelsea and having them look up things by plant name....and I thought ...what a bloody shame. its all very well selling the 'key plants featured at' but.....watch the coverage for what else customers might ask about surely? If not for your own interest as plants people?