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General => The Shed => Topic started by: Jeannine on February 09, 2008, 14:30:12
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does anyone actually buy from this source?
I have just got the catalogue again as I do most years, the prices are so high I find it amusing and I look for the silliest one each year.
How about 6 plant labels and a pen for £9. 45 plus £4.45 postage, that is the winner this year.
Maybe I am missing something but will someone really pay £9.50 for 10 lettuce seedlings or £13.50 for 7 squash seedlings plus postage for either.
How about 1.5 kg of seed potatoes for £8 95 plus postage.
I guess I live in a different world to her customers.
XX Jeannine
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I think most of us do.(I meant live in a different world from her and her customers!.....not most of us buy from her).
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Or 27.50 for a steel bucket! Nice pictures, though! ;D
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I'm afraid I use her catalogues as good reminders of what and when to sow for late summer flowers, I then go and source the seeds from cheaper sources!
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I clearly live in a different world, as they don't even send me a catalogue!
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Sarah needs to get down to a proper lottie and quick.....Recomend her book The great vegetable plot though ;D ;D ;D
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I can just see her in her £90 wellies, shifting cow poo with her £70 pich fork and carting it in her designer wheel barrow that probably cost more than my car.
Who is she by the way, I truly don't know anything about her?
XX Jeannine
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Who is she by the way, I truly don't know anything about her?
Exactly.
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She is a presenter on Gardeners'world and she has this fab place she owns with everything a Gardener could want.She is obviously aiming for the top end of the market at those prices. :)
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I think she use to be a doctor before the children came along
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The old Gardener's World presenter I couldn't stand was Rachel De Thame - she had long manicured nails and was always posing and she lifted a shrub on one show and you could see where it had been in a pot and plonked in the hole read for her to lift it out.
The silliest gardening things I saw for sale - at the Chelsea Flower Show a few years back one of the stalls was selling shabby chic garden tools and accessories - as in old trowels with rotten split handles, old enamel buckets with big chips and dents. It was a load of rubbish out of a skip basically fluffed up with raffia and there were all the ladies that lunch buying it. It just struck me as very sad. Its frightening that so called intelligent people have that amount of money to waste, its obscene actually. If they want to throw their money away on rubbish - why not just give their money to some poor sod who is skint?
Yes - people would and do pay a tenner for a few lables and a pen. I don't know why, but they do.
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Ha ha. It is very true, sadly. I remember a florist telling me that the terracotta flower pot the plant arrangement was in was 'antique', thereby worth the silly price she was charging. That must make my pots worth a bomb then. ::)
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Well in that case my old wooden greenhouse that should have fallen down 20 years ago must be worth a fortune.
For Sale..desirable glasshouse filled with character and olde world charm, tastefully adorned with vintage algae and moss. Comes complete with several antique cracked terracotta flowerpots ,a collection of hand polished gardening tools naturally aged with a delightful rust, decorated with naturally soiled cotton string in a charming knotted design.
Serious offers considered in the region of £4500
XX Jeannine
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You do realise that some sad soul will be Googling tonight for just such an item and will take you seriously. Just sit back and wait for the offers... er... can I be your agent (showbiz or estate, I don't mind)
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Absobloominglootely!! I will go halves with you
XX Jeannine
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But I put the idea in your heads so I want my cut too LOL
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Jeannine, I have spoken with my contact from 'Suvvabees' - 'Valuers and suppliers of bric-a-brac to the idle rich - No job too small'. As your agent I strongly advise you to put your treasure on e-bay. You might make enough to buy a brand new post-modern model.
Just Vegging Out - Have your people call my people...
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Sorry Folks I have decided to keep it for now, I will do a bit more work on it, pop the old wooden wheelbarrow on there , plus a few other antiquities(my old wellies). I think I could get alot more if I really tried.
I don't mind cutting you in Just vegging Out, I will give you half of Amazin's share!!
XX Jeannine
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There is a photo thread idea. "Rustic, or not" - subtitled: "Make our old rust stuff look a million pounds". We could sell the photos printed on cards to the rich.
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I think she use to be a doctor before the children came along
She was a doctor and then stayed home to look after the kids. Home being the small farm they'd just bought. Her dad is a fairly well known Cambidge University Botanist. She knows people like Monty Don & Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall from university. Her husband is the grandson of Vita Sackville-West and grew up in Sissinghurst castle - probably one of the most famous/influential English gardens of the 20th century?
One of my wife's friends went on one of Sarah Raven's courses. I was laughing at the price until she pointed out that it was less than a quarter of what my company charges for a day's training. As she said - you're not even on telly!
Rachel de Thame went to Royal Ballet school and then worked as a model & actress before doing a gardening course and getting the job on GW.
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I received her latest catalogues this morning, and I have to say I really enjoyed looking through them, the photographs are excellent. Seeds mostly £1.95 per packet: not too bad, but I couldn't see anywhere obvious how many seeds per packet there are.....?
The courses she offers....hmmm, most £145 for 5 hours, £95 for 2 and a half hours (including lunch; I should think so!)! I could be tempted by the 'Year round veg' course should my OH decide to splash put on an extravagant birthday present; has anyone been on one of these courses, ?enjoyed it?
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I clearly live in a different world, as they don't even send me a catalogue!
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And we live in a different world again, since we've never even heard of her. :(
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She's the one who gardens in a dress and looks very frumpy!
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Ive have three copies all have been shreded ready for mulching
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Yes she does look frumpy I quite agree with that but who is laughing loudest. Never mind we have a lot of warmth in our hearts!!!!!!!!!!
It is a strange world innit!!!
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Well i think she's nice :-* :-[.
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Seeds mostly £1.95 per packet: not too bad, but I couldn't see anywhere obvious how many seeds per packet there are.....?
Duh, had another look last night and the number of seeds are next to the code number of each item.......... :-\ 30 average in the tomatoes, so not too shabby.
Looking through the main catalogue, I think the four marble fern coasters for £35 will take some beating for expensive useless items......
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The coasters almost tied with the plant labels, they look just regular small tiles to me. However, laugh as I am doing, I do wish her well,I would just like to hear fom somebody who pays all that money fior a lettuce plant. XX Jeannine
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Not listened to it yet (but will shortly..) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/items/04/2008_06_wed.shtml
Seeds mostly £1.95 per packet: not too bad, but I couldn't see anywhere obvious how many seeds per packet there are.....?
Duh, had another look last night and the number of seeds are next to the code number of each item.......... :-\ 30 average in the tomatoes, so not too shabby.
Looking through the main catalogue, I think the four marble fern coasters for £35 will take some beating for expensive useless items......
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Frumpy, Kea? Give me a bit of frump!!
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http://www.enoughness.co.uk/
They are seeking nominations to find Britain’s most useless consumer product.
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That would have to be that thing to put part of a cucumber in that was on Dragon's Den!
Tim, I can do frumpy too! My old flowery maternity tent (14 years old) and a pair of wellies will do it ;D
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Hey I could challenge that with my twinset and tweed skirt, oh and the pearls of course!!
Any good Tim!!
XX Jeannine
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No Sorry I can't beat pearls!
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That would have to be that thing to put part of a cucumber in that was on Dragon's Den!
Tim, I can do frumpy too! My old flowery maternity tent (14 years old) and a pair of wellies will do it ;D
Hey I could challenge that with my twinset and tweed skirt, oh and the pearls of course!!
Any good Tim!!
XX Jeannine
I don't think Tim had the Nora Batty look in mind Ladies...... ;D ;D ;D
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Ok you are a dead man.. Norah Batty, you cheeky whippersnapper, I am definaely more of a Maragret Rutherford or even Hattie Jakes.
mumble mumble mumlble...I will get him for that
Jeannine and no XX today
Ok can't do it, it is my signature xx but just little ones
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Ok you are a dead man.. Norah Batty, you cheeky whippersnapper, I am definaely more of a Maragret Rutherford or even Hattie Jakes.
mumble mumble mumlble...I will get him for that
Jeannine and no XX today
Ok can't do it, it is my signature xx but just little ones
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(http://thegardenseat.com/images/monkey.jpg)
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Stop laughing, they don't need any encouragement!! XX Jeannine
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I missed this because i couldn't log on the other day.
Cheeky monkeys!
That wasn't the look i had in mind either! >:(
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Rachel de Thame went to Royal Ballet school and then worked as a model & actress before doing a gardening course and getting the job on GW.
And married a multimillionaire mate of Michael Winner, the 'film' ptoducer.
valmarg
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Rachel de Thame.........phwoar :P
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It just proves what I have always said, Its not what you know, Its who.