End of May, beginning of June and a beautiful day today but where were the customers? We have an abundance of plants which are good, reliable and some are quite unusual but not enough people coming in to buy them. It makes me despondent because I have no idea what we are doing wrong. Are plant buyers going to supermarkets where there will be no helpful advice? Or the ‘sheds’ where plants are often dry or almost dead? Maybe some people are going to car boot sales where plants are for sale at ridiculously low prices, the sellers won’t be making their living selling plants, it will be ‘pin’ money. If anyone reads this I would welcome any reasons regarding why we are so quiet this year.

Equally slow are garden visitors, who are few and far between. Is there too much competition out there so that people are spoilt for choice with their leisure time? We would like to raise lots of money for the NGS who distribute the donations among a number of very worthy charities including Macmillan and Marie Curie cancer charities, close to our hearts this year because Philip is currently having chemotherapy.

Meanwhile I plod on because I don’t know what else I would do but it grieves me that we have such poor recognition.