Garden Centres In England To Reopen Next Week

[naomi24]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52597586

Thanks goodness for that! A bit of light on the horizon. Now for the rest of the shops.

[naomi24]

LB x

[Deskdiary]

Fair enough Ladybirder - I apologise.

[andres]

Keep safe and stop at home but you can go to the Garden centre . Which is it?

[Prudie]

Yes LB I know and completely understand your situation and wasn't meaning to be insensitive - I meant that most people are making their own minds up about what they feel safe doing now without needing to be told so we should have the freedom of choice. I hate to say it but this is not like a dust cloud waiting to disperse, it will not die out (like the common cold, although will hopefully diminish) so can't quite see the value of extending lockdown for weeks or months as if one day we can step outside and it won't be there.

[jourdain2]

Thank goodness! Trouble is, everyone has been digging out old packets of seeds and growing and swapping plants! I needed 3 tomato plants and so far have 2xbush and 2 standards arriving - all from villagers. I could really do with hanging-basket plants though. I sowed a tray of lobelia and the tiny results are discouraging. As naomi says - a sign of normality emerging. Daft to have closed them in the first place, I think - they are all big enough to allow spacing and most are outside.

[diddlydo]

I totally agree about garden centres - ridiculous that they were ever closed. The 2 metre rule is pretty arbitrary as well - in France it's 1 metre.

[nailit]

Wish the shoe shops would open, im in desperate need of footwear.
Cant see how plants take precidence over clothing?

[royfromaus]

If it was only about if I feel safe I would be out and about...but it isn't, there are others in the family I have to think about.

[royfromaus]

The garden centres will be mental and are best avoided. I hate queuing.

[ladybirder]

Thank you for your apology DD.
And thank you Naomi.
Prudie I know you weren't meaning to be insensitive at all, don't feel bad, it's just me. I guess I'm hoping against hope that there just might be a glimmer of a vaccine on the horizon at some point soon. You must go off and enjoy your longed for holidays as soon as you can. I'd be happy rescuing another old dog from kennels so we could both trundle around one of our local parks together. Happy days:-)

[Barmaid]

Because a lot of us grow our own food and those plants are pretty vital to us.

Plus you can order shoes online.

But I am not sure that they are taking precedence. Most garden centres are fairly open whereas shoe shops aren't.

[andres]

Pleased to see some sense of normality returning ? Tell that to the 6 out of 25 District nurses at a Health Centre near us.They have all shown signs of the virus this week and have had to go into isolation. It has arrived in our area now with a vengeance.

[nailit]

//Because a lot of us grow our own food and those plants are pretty vital to us//
If you can grow ur own food I take my hat off to you (seriously). I wish that I could. A bit difficult living in a high rise. This is where I miss living in house with a garden.

//Plus you can order shoes online//
Having odd feet, I need to try on shoes in the shop (one foot wider than the other and one foot a different size than the other). Its a nightmare buying shoes at the best of times, let alone on line.

Difficult times for all....

[royfromaus]

Cheap pair of trainers one size bigger will surely suffice?

[nailit]

//Cheap pair of trainers one size bigger will surely suffice?//
Walking round like coco the clown now anyway.
Just be nice to get something that fits rather than a plant for my non-existant garden.

[nailit]

In agreement with naomi anyway
//Now for the rest of the shops//

Practice distancing and health measures etc but for god's sake's let people make a living...

[Tilly2]

Nails, do you have a balcony?

[nailit]

No Tills I don't...

[andy-hughes]

The idea of garden centres opening presupposes that everyone is desperate to get plants for their gardens and everyone will feel better.

I was made to do the garden growing up and I hated it then, and vowed i would never ever do it, and I don;t, mowing excepted, which I don't mind.

For mer personally to be happy, they need to open the barbers, the local Italian restaurant, the library, and the cinema - garden centres need never open again for me!

[webbo3]

the problem with garden centres, as big as they are, people go to browse and not buy and leave, you will end up with a large number of people in one section looking to buy certain plants and products.