Snowdrop gardens with gift shops?

[Martin Baxendale]

I'd appreciate suggestions for snowdrop gardens open to the public which have gift shops.  The Rococo Gardens at Painswick are selling my novel, The Snowdrop Garden, having contacted me after seeing a review in Cotswold Life, and I was thinking that I might contact other such gardens with gift shops to see if any of them might want to stock the book.

Since my distributors shut down their marketing department and sacked their salaried reps as an economy measure, I've been struggling to market the book pretty much on my own, so any suggestions will be a great help. I don't get out and about to snowdrop gardens as much as I'd like, due to work constraints, so I don't really know which ones have gift shops that might sell plant-related or snowdrop-related books. Just suggestions of garden names would be a real help (I can google for addresses) but if people have addresses to hand that would save me some time (I'm up to my eyes in book-related work stuff right now).

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[KentGardener]

Hi Martin

Angelsea Abbey definately has.
RHS Wisley has a bookshop.

and possibly the Chelsea Physic garden? (but I have never been there - but know people have purchased snowdrops there)

[Martin Baxendale]

For any owners of snowdrop gardens (or other gardens open to the public) with gift shops who might read this and be interested, details of the book can be found in a separate thread in the forum's galanthus section, titled (I think) "My new book, The Snowdrop Garden", here's a link to that thread:

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3123.60

[Alan_b]

Surely the name "Silent but Deadly Publications" should have given you a hint of things to come?

I was also going to be constructive and suggest Anglesey Abbey gift shop but KentGardener beat me to it?

[Maggi Young]

'Silent but Deadly' is the name of Martin's own publishing company, Alan... it is the distributor that has croaked!

Some Scottish suggestions, Martin......

http://www.camboestate.com/

Email cambo@camboestate.com
Phone - +44 (0) 1333 450054
Fax - +44 (0) 1333 450987
Mail - Cambo House, Kingsbarns, St.Andrews, Fife, KY16 8QD, UK


Brechin Castle Centre,
Haughmuir,
Brechin,
Angus,
DD9 6RL.

Telephone: 01356 626813
Fax: 01356 626814
Please email any feedback/suggestions to;
Email: enquiries@brechincastlecentre.co.uk



http://www.scone-palace.net/
Scone Palace,

 Perth Scotland  PH2 6BD

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and this website for the Scottish Snowdrop Festival will give links  to other gardens and many will have gift shops, I expect......
http://white.visitscotland.com/white_things_to_see_and_do/events_and_festivals/festival.aspx

[Alan_b]

'Silent but Deadly' is the name of Martin's own publishing company, Alan... it is the distributor that has croaked!

Oops, sorry, shows how little I know about the world of books. 

[Anna]

Have not visited Martin but I believe that Hodsock Priory has a new gift shop ~

Hodsock Priory Gardens
Blyth
Nottinghamshire
England
S81 0TY

Tel: 01909 591204

Fax: 01909 591578

Email: info@snowdrops.co.uk

[vivienr]

Yes Hodsock has a giftshop, and they get thousands of visitors by the coachload at snowdrop time. RHS Harlow Carr has a large gardening bookshop (probably second in size to Wisley) and they have a new winter garden. There is a new (restored) winter garden at Dunham Massey (National Trust) in Cheshire and several other NT gardens are now opening for snowdrops.