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Bonnet of Gardening Express.
Gardening ON-LINE
Have any of you readers received a copy of the chunky, glossy, highly polished
(although can you ever really polish a turd?) So Essex magazine
through your letterboxes recently, readers?
In it, on pages 70 and 71, to be precise (Jesus, it’d take The Edge a few
issues to produce that many pages), there’s an article on a local Chelmsford
bloke called Chris Bonnett who’s built up his online internet gardening plant
& shrub supply service from a patch of unused earth in his parent’s back
garden into a £1million turnover business over the past 10 years, and the
fella’s still only 29.
Well, Chris got in touch with The Edge and invited me over for a brew and a
chat. I say ‘a brew’, only I noticed he declined when offered one by a
member of his staff, and when I tasted mine, bugger - it surely qualified as
the worst cup of char anyone’s ever made me, bland and tasteless as it was.
In fact, I was actually preparing to sod the interview and jump straight back
into my Edgemobile when...
“I’m going to be on the tele,” said Chris. “It’s a brand new C5 show called
Garden ER, which also spells gardener.....get it?.”
“Oh eye, lad, eye,” I confirmed. “There’s no flies on me.”
“It’s a weekly show aimed at putting the fun back into gardening, and I even
managed to wangle a brand new water feature for my own garden out of
them as well, which was handy. The show covers real garden makeovers,
with real prices and the time involved. And there’s some great
ideas on how to turn a garden shed from shabby to chic...”
“Every man loves his garden shed,” chimed I. “Someone
even bought me a couple of books about the subject for
my birthday, entitled ‘Shed Men’ and ‘Men & Sheds’.
They’re about....”
“Whoa! Edge bloke. This article is surely about me and not
you yet again, isn’t it? So, as I was saying, Garden ER....yes, you’ll no doubt
be interested to know that there’s a pimp my shed section, where rundown
garden sheds are totally transformed. Then there’s a help and advice section
as the team sorts out viewers embarrassing gardening gaffs. There’ll also be
a bit of green-fingered gadget testing, plus a look behind the garden gate into
some of Britain’s celebrities’ gardens. The whole aim of the shows is to
demystify gardening and bring back the fun element that Ground Force used
to tap into.”
“W’hey, Ground Force,” I repeated. “The Edge should feature that on its TV
Gold section as I honestly used to love that programme, and not just
because of Charlie Dimmock’s hooters either.”
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“Quite.”
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“OK, Chris, back to you then, sir. Now, The Edge gathers that you already
send plants out to all corners of England, Scotland and Wales, so whatever
next? Ever considered thinking about Europe?”
“To be honest with you,” says Chris, “I have been thinking about it. One step
at a time though, so it’d be Germany first. In fact, your Edge might be able to
help us recruit someone who could help us translate our website into
German and handle all the customer calls the new site would hopefully
produce?”
Any budding gardeners and/or bi-linguists out there should simply log on to
gardeningexpress.co.uk