Topic: Homebase

[Bugloss2009]

so the new face of gardening at Homebase is......Jamie Oliver  ???

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/8303479/Jamie-Oliver-to-sprinkle-his-magic-on-Homebase.html

I see he's already sprinkled his magic with a 400 quid BBQ

http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=20001&partNumber=3430811

[Mrs Gumboot]

Oh good grief. Just when I'd decided that he'd gone back to cooking and wasn't such a tit after all  ::)

Luckily I don't use Homebase much for plants anyway. Spent a happy hour on Thursday rummaging around a local independent garden centre. Place is a complete tip with shredded plastic polytunnels, broken paths and stock all over the place, but the plants are fantastic. Give me a grotty place that knows how to grow plants any day  ;D

[cambourne7]

maybe its because he has veggie garden but not everyone can afford there own gardener i would have though that james martin might have been a better idea as hes been at it longer :) ( and better looking)

[grannyjanny]

Oh yes Cam. James Martin is the man ;) ;D.

[sazhig]

Are Homebase still owned/part of Sainsbury's? If it is that probably had more to do with the choice  ::)

[Chrispy]

I has a stroll around the garden section of Homebase (& B&Q) yesterday, as they are only a few minutes walk away after I had been to the post office.

The first thing I saw, Jamie Oliver seed potatoes! They also had various Jamie Oliver fruit bushes, celebrity endorsement is getting just too silly for me.