One of the Cracked Pots artists made some lovely metal animals
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One of the Cracked Pots artists made some lovely metal animals
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Hughes Water Garden’s peaceful, realistic woodland pond scene (Sorry it’s so hard to see – the light was very dim and I’m learning to use a new camera.)
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Hughes Water Garden’s peaceful, realistic woodland pond scene (Sorry it’s so hard to see – the light was very dim and I’m learning to use a new camera.)
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A Cracked Pots artist (must get the name!) presented a metal menagerie including goats, rabbits, pigs and chickens.
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A Cracked Pots artist (must get the name!) presented a metal menagerie including goats, rabbits, pigs and chickens.
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These plant labels at the Pane in the Glass booth were made of glass labels affixed to recycled cutlery. Ingenious!
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These plant labels at the Pane in the Glass booth were made of glass labels affixed to recycled cutlery. Ingenious!
In case you didn’t make it, the Portland Yard, Garden & Patio Show was a lot of fun this year. We’ll have the numbers soon enough and will know just how well it did… but after my sally around the show floor today, I’d say there was solid visitor turnout and clearly some vendors did very well. It will be interesting to see which types of businesses did best – post-show analysis always provides an interesting reading on current trends. I was drawn to …
