We will be running our first full Trug making Appreciation Course here at Magham Down next week over the weekend. It will be an interesting weekend and we have a Japanese lady attending! Chris, my son, Caleb, my senior apprentice, and I will be running the course and we are all looking forward to it!…
It has been raining! We’re short of chestnut and willow and chasing round trying to find some to fulfil an order for some customers in Dubai who have ordered 80 Trugs. We’ve found lots of sweet chestnut for felling in the autumn and two of our woodsmen have promised chestnut for next week! Panic over!
As well as our two friends from Munich we had a visit from an English lady and her American husband who live in Germany near Frankfurt and they bought a Trug for the husband’s birthday, which was yesterday. Well, we will be going to Gartenfest in Langen for the Prinz von Hessen in September and…
I mentioned in an earlier post about the “Tight Lines & Happy Hunting” exhibition that is currently taking place in Munich in Germany and how we have some of our Royal Sussex Traditional and South Down Contemporary Trugs on show there. This morning a lovely couple who live in Munich visited our shop. They had…
Today we despatched Trugs to Hillier Garden Centres in Braishfield, Horsham, Bosham and Pevensey/Westham. They will be on sale probably over the weekend at Pevensey and early next week at the other branches. All are our South Down Contemporary Trugs and each centre has a different colour for the handles and rims.
Redfields Garden Centre in Church Crookham, Hampshire has now placed an order with us as the first Blue Diamond Group garden centre to stock our genuine Sussex Trugs, with Newbridge Nurseries in Broadbridge Heath, West Sussex, soon to place their order. We welcome Blue Diamond Group to our World-wide network of stockist and look forward…
I had a wonderful e-mail today from a good customer in the USA today! Tomm and his wife Leslie have bought several Trugs from us over the past couple of years and always show their appreciation. Leslie has a passion for baskets of any kind and has taken a real shine to our Sussex Trugs.…
I think that I mentioned in an earlier post, possibly towards the end of last year, about an elderly lady, Vivien Greene from North Carolina who wanted a Trug but had no computer and had written and asked for help to buy one. Well I contacted Rebecca at Garden Talk in Topsfield, Massachusetts who telephoned…
We are very pleased to announce that the Duchy of Cornwall Nursery in Lostwithiel, Cornwall has placed an order for some of our Royal Sussex Traditional and South Down Contemporary Trugs. These will be delivered to them next week so local customers can buy there very soon. We welcome the nursery to our Worldwide family…
Kent County Show at Detling was a lovely show in a great venue and we were in the woodland section under the trees and therefore in a very pleasant place, sheltered from the hot sun, which shone for three glorious days! We met some really interesting people including old chums from the Bodgers (Association of…
