Spring Fling

We set up for the Annual Memphis Master Gardeners Spring Fling on Thursday. It took all morning to pull and load all of the plants and accessories needed for a show.
Mike has decided that we need a trailer that is specifically designed for our use, he is looking hard for one.
The way that the truck was loaded is a marked improvement over last years shows. We loaded five flats to a rack and use the racks as display tables. Last year we loaded the flats individually and it took a long time to unload them. We can get 55 flats of plants in the back of the truck, but we took 67 flats, so it took 2 trips. We couldn't get everything we needed in the cab of the truck so it was going to take 2 trips anyway. With the trailer that he is looking for, we should be able to get everything in that trailer.

We had a successful show, even thought the weather did not cooperate. If we could have had some sunshine, even though it was chilly, we could have had much more traffic by our booth. On the whole we were pleased with the outcome.



The show lasted 2 days, Friday and Saturday and they had some good speakers. The Master Gardeners are a good group of people. This show had a large number of vendors which required 2 buildings and some of the vendors were setup outside.

While we were there, I had decided that I didn't like traveling without some sort of house plant.
One of the vendors was selling pottery, I told her what our situation was and she came up with a beautiful bowl. It has a small chip in the rim which she filed down with a Dremel tool, so she sold it to me for a very good price. It looks great. I wanted some plants that wouldn't take over without a lot of maintenance, so I asked Paul Little, another vendor, to help me design a planter. He planted the bowl up. I think it looks terrific.
We took yesterday off as we were both very tired. Brenda and I went to church then onto breakfast with the breakfast club. It was nice not to have to rush and leave to get to work.

Jennifer, had to work at home so she took Sunday off, too. We head back to work today as we have a lot of orders to pick and ship. We have to inventory what was sold. All in all a very busy day.


Ta ta for now