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Re: [GWL]: Gardens To Go

Hi, Doreen!

If you can't find enough gardens packaged to go, perhaps you can expand the
topic to include easy garden combos you can put together. It could be a
sidebar.

For example, my doctor once mentioned that she'd like to grow fresh tomatoes
but didn't have time. So I advised her to get some big flowerpots or tubs,
more than knee-high, put them on her sunny terrace, fill them with
commercially prepared potting soil containing fertilizer, and plunk in the
tomato plants and supports, the bigger the better. When I saw her the next
year, she said the tomatoes were great. Feel free to use this if you like.

- Betty Mackey
B. B. Mackey Books

----- Original Message -----
From: Doreen Howard <doreenh@ticon.net>
To: <Gardenwriters@topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 6:04 PM
Subject: [GWL]: Gardens To Go


About a year ago, I read in a London newspaper about the gardens-to-go trend
in the UK.  The article detailed how garden centers were selling boxes and
totes filled with plants, fertilizer, seed, planting chart and even borders
and small garden ornaments.  A bale of compost was included in the
package-all for one price.  These gardens-to-go were aimed at the
time-starved young professional who lived in a terrace house (a row house
with a small backyard) in urban areas, and at two-income suburbanites with
little time and small yards.  Varieties of gardens included herbs, sunny
annuals, shade gardens, curb appeal, etc.  You get the picture.

At the time, I thought this was a terrific idea for the USA, in view of the
success of Etera and Spring Hill were having.  I pitched the idea to a
couple of editors with no luck last year.  A few weeks ago, I got a contract
to do the article.

With the demise of Etera and Spring Hill, I'm in a quandary about retail
sources.  Do any of you know of regional garden centers that package this
way?  Do you know of any catalogs that will be doing this concept for 2002?
I think Park does in the Park Countryside catalog, but how about others?

And, lastly, can any of our UK list members give more details about the
gardens-to-go trend and how it has worked?  Popularity, variety, endurance,
etc.?

Any help is appreciated.
Doreen Howard

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