2020 calendar of events from Plant Hunters' Fairs

[Maggi Young]

It is  ever  more  important  to support  the  specialist  nurseries and  growers -  attending  one  of these  events i  a  great start!

07716 990695     www.planthuntersfairs.co.uk



You can download this calendar from: http://www.planthuntersfairs.co.uk/images/calendar.pdf

[ashley]

Plant fairs in Ireland are listed here.

[Maggi Young]

Thank for that Ashley - here's  a  screengrab of the  Irish  list 

[Maggi Young]

I've  just  seen a post  on Facebook from Barnhaven Primroses  telling  that " France has started cancelling the first plant fairs of the season. This is an appeal to all of you to continue to support the small nurseries like us who depend on such events for a large part of our income. So please, make the effort to go to your local nurseries, buy plants online and help see us through these next few difficult months."
The  story, in a  French magazine, is  here:   

https://magazine.hortus-focus.fr/blog/2020/03/11/coronavirus-fetes-des-plantes-annulees/?fbclid=IwAR2m95etfyCpWRrfWDxvHO8ppBo7QNKinfo82kmzdVnrlUVMGcUK4kaOcek

I hope  we  will all do whatever  we  can to support the  specialist  nurseries  which are  so vital to our  hobby and  interests.

[fermi de Sousa]

Melbourne's International Flower & Garden Show has been cancelled which is very disappointing, especially for some of our friends who derive a large part of their annual income from plant sales at this one event
One of our members has been on Instagram urging his followers to support these sellers through their on-line sites and I whole-heartedly agree.
We have only begun to buy!!!
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

A couple of nurseries expected to attend the Kendal Show today pulled out from the event - this will be happening everywhere in the next while.
Whether or not nurseries decide to withdraw from any events, or the events themselves are cancelled, please bear in mind that these specialist nurseries do not have an easy time of business at the best of times, and many will lose substantial percentages of their income because of this situation, as I have just been reading about on Facebook from Tonkin's Nursery in Australia. Without these nurseries we would also lose out in a major fashion as hobby growers - saving the nurseries is definitely in our own interest!

Be kind - use mail order where you can!

Handy  list .....  ....http://files.srgc.net/journals/NurseryListSRGC.pdf   

[Maggi Young]

Whether or not nurseries decide to withdraw from any events, or the events themselves are cancelled, please bear in mind that these specialist nurseries do not have an easy time of business at the best of times, and many will lose substantial percentages of their income because of this situation, in he  UK and  further  afield.Without these nurseries we would also lose out in a major fashion as hobby growers - saving the nurseries is definitely in our own interest!

Be kind - use mail order where you can!

Handy  list  for  the  UK for  alpine  plant  lovers .....  ....http://files.srgc.net/journals/NurseryListSRGC.pdf   

There  is  also this site  -
http://independentplantnurseriesguide.uk/   

 Shop and  enjoy!