Publicity counts!

Yesterday I met up on site with members of the team from Alzheimer's Society as well as the sponsor for the ‘Remember to Reflect’ show garden, Mills & Reeve Solicitors. The PR team need photos for publicity purposes and I’m more than happy to help out.  After all, the main objective of this wonderful show garden is to create as much as awareness as possible of the good work of Alzheimer’s Society. We must grab every opportunity that comes our way! Did you see the piece about the garden and me in July’s Cheshire Life? We’re hoping for more opportunities like this in local and regional press over the next few weeks.

Hazel and Jo are sporting T-shirts with the Society logo on and Kirsty is armed with the camera. Stephen McCann represents the generous sponsors of the garden and dons his best suit to look very official for the occasion.  We arrive at the garden in the middle of a technical crisis – the cement mixer is bust but Elliott has managed to get hold of another one without too much trouble or much of a set back in the schedule, thank goodness. He’s back on track in no time.

The RHS Health & Safety team are sticklers about everyone wearing steel toe capped boots and high viz vests. The vests we can do but the boots, well, don’t tell the RHS but we manage to fake it in our best walking boots. Thank goodness for Meindl!  The high viz vests have to come off for the duration of the ‘photo shoot’ as they hide the logos on the t-shirts which kind of defeats the object of the exercise really. No-one comes running to tell us off so we think we’ve got way with it…

I also take the opportunity to drop off a pop up gazebo for the guys to use if this baking sunshine gets too much for them. The publicity tent that will stand next to the garden hasn’t been put up by the RHS yet so they have nowhere to hide from the, dare I say it, relentless sunshine! This weather seems almost too good to be true and I’ve heard rumours that it will last until the end of July sshhhh!

So we take the photos and leave the guys to it. It’s certainly been exciting for everyone to have a behind the scenes view of life at the showground before it opens and to see the progress that's been made so far. I can’t wait to go back tomorrow after I’ve been over to Ladybrook Nursery to check on the plants!