Annoy your neighbours
We love this blackboard message at Deepdale Garden Centre, which is just outside of Barton Upon Humber.
Quirky and totally non corporate, just what an independent should be doing – well done Matt!
We love this blackboard message at Deepdale Garden Centre, which is just outside of Barton Upon Humber.
Quirky and totally non corporate, just what an independent should be doing – well done Matt!
If word of mouth is the best form of advertising. If the way to continue to boost Cafe sales is to innovate. If connecting with our customers is what it is all about… Then what do you think of McDonalds latest idea… Until the 14th Feb customers, chosen at random can pay with love! Just…
We love the addition of a planted BBQ to the plantaria at Alton Garden Centre…
Now what would be the most appropriate plant to grown on a BBQ?
Salvia splendens “Red Sizzler” maybe…
Did you know? 1 in 5 Brits admits to spending time time in their shed to get away from their partners. 9% store secret unhealthy snacks 8% store secret cigarettes 7% store secret shopping receipts 4% store secret love letters from an ex-partner 11% of Brits even admit to using their shed to make secret…
At Waring Stewart Towers we LOVE this take on Guerrilla Gardening…
Basically a pot home in a pavement or a road, or a Garden centre car park, is a planting hole…
How about celebrating the humble onion set this Valentines Day From ‘Rapture’ by Carol Ann Duffy. Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Here. It will blind you with tears like a…
While we were enjoying a coffee at the cafe nearest to Waring Stewart Towers we saw this great Christmas Promotion
During December every customer wearing a Christmas Jumper will be offered a free mince pie.
What a lovely festive promotion.
Honda is busy building a 130mph lawnmower for Top Gear
Maybe Lawnmower racing in the car park will take off as a new sport?
Have some fun with merchandising and display…
We like the turnip and carrot tree…
The beetroot look almost ripe…
How about using a wheelbarrow army to welcome customers to the Garden Centre or the Plantaria.
We quite like the idea of naming the wheelbarrows after key members of staff…
After all of the wet weather, many gardeners are battling with slugs…
Making this a very well timed promotion…
We became aware of this through their Facebook news feed.
We love this, taken from the newsletter of Choice Plants in Romsey Hampshire, who used their customers to get Nat West to settle an invoice.
See at a visitor attraction in London.
Perfect for every Garden Centre Coffee Shop.
The unusual Spaghetti Tree could revolutionise plant sales says Garden Centre Consultant Doug Stewart.
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We like this blackboard spotted by Richard in York…