Lug-a-trug no more!!

A lovely tour around the show. Thanks for posting some photos. They almost make you feel like you were there too! I hope that the lug-a-trug becomes a very useful piece of gardening equipment for you.

thanx for the tour it was lovely, lots of plants but as you said not as many as usual, wish we had more things like this in our area, anyway you treated yourself to some nice new plants and im sure you will make room for the clematis lol, like the wheelie trug very handy, save weighing your arms down,not into the car bonnett either, dont like these modern ideas for gardens, well not silly ideas like that lol

Thanks Spritz for the tour, that lug-a-trug was a good purchase.
I am glad to see that the garden with the Mercedes car bonnet was not the winner, although I do have a Mercedes bonnet in my garden too .... but it happens to be attached to my car :o)))
Well done to the Ladies that did win though it looks a good design.

enjoyed your tour loved the lug a trug too does it work? I have a birthday in mind?

Enjoyed your tour of your day out was interesting arrangements of plants and garden design , the cars were vintage was there a tour of vintage cars we have that here every year its lovely love the campanula octopus very pretty , interesting stalls, yes I think it is the reccession as my friend went to the town and country just up the road to me and she said hardly any thing was there is year and very dissapointed, she felt 30.00 was wasted on enterance for her and hubby, you think cars were strange! there were undertakers showing off their coffins at the town and country stoneliegh lmao the mind boggles.

Loved the tour and the Echinacea Sun Dawn was delish must search for that one
My Pink trugs are crying out for the lug a trug I'm not getting any younger as my shoulders keep reminding me!
Thanks for sharing :o))

Lovely dayout Spritz, enjoyed it very much. Must say the lilac trug is very fetching !

I was spoilt for choice when it came to choosing which colour trug...the price included it, you see.

It was so easy to wheel acoss the showground, then it folds up to go in the car (or shed at home!!) and it went up and down some steps very easily. I'm sure it will be one of those indispensible 'gadgets' in the garden. I get really tired lugging loads of compost or dead perennials etc in a trug, so it should save my energy - and sore back!

The trug's a good idea and will be invaluable i'm sure.
I love the aster too and as for the Clematis ..... i can't believe you found one there !!! :)))
It must be fate ;)

Glad you had a good day despite the changes. That ecinaccea was gorgeous....was the plant with it persicaria? I do like your trug, it will be very useful in the garden. I got that campanual "octopus" a few years ago and it does spread!!! I pulled a whole lot out but it will pop up again next year. A bit disappointing though, the flowers all clump together and hang their heads, so you can't see them easily. I'll give it one more season.....

Thanks for your blog Spritz. Certainly looks a nice show and worth the visit.

sorry that the magazine doesn't seem to be associated with the show any more~that is disappointing!
However do admire your lilac trug~we have some of those square plastic boxes which will be accompanying us next week to Wisley!.
I have a lime green trug bought at Hampton Court and even without the wheels it is very handy.
Anyway go and open your Amateur Gardening mag~mine came in the post today~blackcurrant Hollyhock seeds giveaway!

enjoyed your tour round the show...love your trug..... could do with one of those myself.......

I enjoyed your day out Spritz. The photo's were great. :~))
I would have thought the recession would have brought the nurseries out in force, to get their name out and get more sales surely? I love your lug-a-trug, it looks ideal and I think I'm going to google it right now. Lol :~))

Well I googled lug-a-trug and guess where I ended up?
A blog by Spritzhenry at Growsonyou.com. Lol

You should patent the name Spritz :o)))

`me too! check rainbow trugs Ian~prices from £19.50~or
# www.containerama.com 13 colours & 6 sizes, the original Tubtrugs®, accept no imitations.

Thanks for taking us on your day out with you, like everyone else i think the trug wheelie is a brill idea.

Oh dear - I'm in trug-trouble here, aren't I! I didn't think to ask what the company's name was - the one Arlene found isn't the same - it hasn't got the band round the trug to support it. I think the trug might topple over on that one...
I am sorry, folks!

Ian - that's SOOOO funny!!!

~there does appear to be quite a lot of different types for sale including a different one again from the guy we bought our trug from~very basic~normally the RHS shows have a list of exhibitors and I have all mine for the last few shows~ will have a look to see what I can find. Does it have something stamped into the bottom of the trug Barbara?

Yes - 'Gardenextras.com'. I tried that..got nowhere...see if you can do better! I hope so...

This wasn't an RHS Show, though - and I didn't get a catalogue, so no help there. :-(

Love your blog Spritz, what a lovely find of your trug very useful.

Interesting blog again spritz. Even the RHS are cutting back - no September Show in London this year :-(

Amblealice - yes, it's persicaria 'Red Dragon'

Great blog Spritz, garden shows seem to have all sorts of non-gardening retail opportunities these days - our local garden centre is more of a plant supermarket nowadays. Looked at a trugbarrow (alternative name!) and was tempted .... but didn't succumb! Maybe I will soon though!

wow luve the pulla trug
Im forever scraping up the grass as I lug mine around, fab idea

shame that its changed

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I've been using it this afternoon - SUCH a difference! I'm very glad I bought it. :-)

Love that old watering can but as you say what a price ! We have a few picked up at local tip a couple of years ago for about £5 each ! Also have an old tin bath waiting to be planted up !

My green plastic ones (recycled plastic of course) do me. There's no way I would, even if I could, pay that much for a watering can. :~((

I don't think I could use it, anyway - it would be far too heavy for me.

Bb - at our 'tip' you're not allowed to take anything away! Yes, there was an old tin bath there, too. I didn't look at the price, though.

Have a couple of old belfast sinks too....inherited...heaven knows how much they would be now ! Sadly our local tip "shop" now closed too ! Once bought a wonderful old but solid spade there for £2....the best spade have ever had !

I think the cars are a distraction for disinterested husbands. (That'll get Toto going)

They are like gold dust, Bb! People want them in their kitchens - it's fashionable, apparently.

Wagger - as there were only about 12 cars, the poor husbands would need to take about 20 mins gazing at each one! lol.

I could spend an hour looking at just one GOOD classic car. :~))

But Ian - wouldn't you want to go and see the HUGE veggies competition?? And see the flowery things?

Oh yes, but I would have to make time for the drivy things as well............. Lol

like the trug puller, and unlike most also like the mercedes bonnet!! but would have done it differently. I dont think NP has seen this blog yet as theres no retaliation....

Interesting tour Sprizhenery.I especially enjoyed the Bonsai,Salvia and Companula'Pink Octopus'.I'm going to look them up and see if I can get something like it here.Beautiful tour ! Thanks. And yes, it looks like you got a good investment with that trug thingy.

great photos ...loved the succulents/cactus display.
ressecion has hit us nurseries hard....i was at a show yesterday. there was half the usual nurseries there. in times like these gardens become less essential as far as the purse goes. a few of my friends have closed their nurseries..last winter being the final nail...
but i NEED one of those lug- a -trugs...

I'm hoping that Arlene may come up with the company name from her back-catalogues!

Such a shame about nurseries closing, Sandra. :-(

hard times Spritz. last winter nearly finished us off too. its hard to compete with all the dutch imports....

Do you do a postal service Sandra? :~))
and have you got a web site?

i do post a few Ian. and i hope to have a web site up and running by the spring...i mainly sell at local markets from haome and wholesale to garden centres..

I was just wondering, as you know the more advertising the better and if its free then its even better. Lol :~))

Looks a great idea for us that are past our sell by date.....
TRUG TROLLEY
to be found at
http://www.gardenxtras.com/catalogue.asp?catcode=17

Oh, what a little genius to have found them! Well done! :-))

It also makes me even happier, 'cos mine was at the show price! :-)))))))))

GRRRRR! And me an Aberdonian too!!

Well, just think - if anybody else wants to buy one, you've done THEM all a favour - and made ME happy!! :-)))))))

I've been trundling it round this afternoon - it's so much easier!

Lovely photos... Interesting blog...
Classic cars seem to be at lots of events these days...

Thanks, Tt...I suspect that they were there to attempt to fill one of the many empty areas! A bit like that gorilla - next to it were two enormous pirates, with another banner advertising Wookey Hole Caves! Nothing to do with gardening at all - just there to fill a very large gap!

I had noticed the absence of Am Garden, I had no idea they had pulled out. This doesn't sound good, if it carries on like that the show will surely finish. I looked at the trugs too, what a great idea, I'd spent up though before I'd seen them LOL

Well, thanks to Alzheimer, you know where to get them! :-))

I agree - it's the beginning of the end for this particular show. :-(( I don't know who to complain to, though. Any ideas??

~I looked at Garden extra days ago but didn't think it was the same one as yours~never mind as long as we got there in the end!I will have a look at Wisley to see what they have got at the weekend~

Good thinking, Arlene! :-)

Thanks for the tour Spritz ,I also like your little trug and its given me an idea as to what to do with sons wheels that he used to cart his golf clubs around with,if it works I`ll let you know..........

I've been thinking along the same lines LL. :~))

Great idea, Lincslass ! :o)

Worth a try and that`ll perhaps encourage my lad to collect his belongings and I can have my garden shed back then........

if you go to the B&W website they have a contact email and a phone number, I guess that would be the first point to complain

Love that bonsai. I'm finding myself getting more interested in it, might make it a hobby later. Like the lilac trug too!

Hi Spritz!! Such a shame the AG show was not as you expected and more expensive to add to the disappointment. I was in your neck of the woods a couple of weekends ago for a wedding at Halswell House, should have let you know and I'd have popped in to ask you the name of that plant you have in your gravelly garden with the blue foliage. My hubby really liked it when we visited your garden.
About the Salvia confertiflora, in the Ventnor Botanical Gardens, it does grow as a perennial, but it is on the tender side and they get away with really surprising tender plants there. I might try it, buy a few and do your own trial, i'd suggest planting it where you have plenty of sun and shelter and surrounding plants around the soil level of the Salvia confertiflora, grow a few in pots and see how they recover, and of course keep some inside during the Winter. I looked at buying some too but I haven't created the bed where they are going yet.

Thanks for that, Andrea. It's worth a try - it's such a great plant! Shame you didn't pay us a visit - you know where we live, now! Did you mean Cerinthe major 'purpurascens'?? I'll save some seed for you, if so.

Bamboo - I liked the 'tasteful' colour! LOL. I did have a choice of several rather bright ones...;-)

Grindle - it's probably a bit late to complain now - we've been away. I should have thought of that as soon as I came home from the show....:-(

Great blog, as always!
LOVE the truggy trolley! I want one!!!

:) Let's hope Malvern is much better (I'm sure it will be)

I do hope so - it's RHS so it SHOULD be!!

MP - look at the link above - Alzheimer tracked them down!! You could have one.

Brilliant! Ta! I dont have a barrow, so that'd make life SO much easier!! :~)))

What I didn't say is that the frame folds up - so you can hang it up in the shed if you need to! As for the trug - no, that doesn't fold up...LOL.

LOL! At least the frame does!! Price wasnt too scary either!

No - and I am using mine every day! It really saves my back. :-))

Sounds like a plan to me! My back really plays up lugging stuff in a pail!

Go for it, then, Mp....what colour trug do you fancy??

I like the lilac one too! Still trying to get student loan sorted out tho!!

Oh dear - good luck! Is it different in Scotland?

That's a silly question - you wouldn't necessarily know what it's like in the rest of the UK, would you?? lol.

LOL!! All I know is they sent me all of the paperwork, but forgot to put the money in my bank!!
I know there've been a lot of c***ups all over Britain!

Oh dear! I am sorry to have to take issue with you but this is NOT a Trug! It's a bucket on wheels - nothing more. A "trug" is a wooden garden basket hand made and usually in Sussex when it was invented. Its a traditional garden basket and it's made either in the traditional way using sweet chestnut and willow woods or in the more contemporary way using Birch ply. How do I know this? Well Smith's Trugs are the original makers of the World famous Sussex Trug and I have owned the company for many years keeping it going when importers have brought in cheap Chinese knock-offs and everyone calls any old wooden tray they dug up in a car boot fair a "trug". Genuine Sussex Trugs come from Sussex and are freely available on the websites of the few remaining Trug Makers in the county. Hope you don't mind my try at setting the record straight?

Feel free.