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Re: My Garden Centre
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2010, 15:36:05 »
Thanks for such positive comments, Gis, Baden, Gordon and Panos! :) :) :)

The garden centre theme is what really got me into playmobil when I first saw it on holiday (I had a few bits left from early childhood) We ended up bringing nearly the whole range home on the plane from Menorca and it is still my all time favourite sets as I can still remember sitting by the pool at the villa playing with it in the shade of the midday sun :love: :love: :love:



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Re: My Garden Centre
« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2010, 15:50:05 »
This is brilliant Damo  :wow: :wow: :wow:
As always your attention to detail and touches of humour are superb  :clap: :clap: :clap:
But...I do wish you wouldn't keep showing such wonderful displays: I want a garden centre now!
I've kept looking at all the different sets on ebay and so far resisted but now..... :-[
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Re: My Garden Centre
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2010, 16:16:55 »
This is brilliant Damo  :wow: :wow: :wow:
As always your attention to detail and touches of humour are superb  :clap: :clap: :clap:
But...I do wish you wouldn't keep showing such wonderful displays: I want a garden centre now!
I've kept looking at all the different sets on ebay and so far resisted but now..... :-[

Ditto! Is there any other toy product on the market that provides all the materials to build a Garden Centre?

Superb details and touches. My wife loves the raised nursery beds, and I am amused by the pallet jack and pallets (very familiar with these through my work). We stack our empty pallets 15 high and take them to a pickup point in the car park, where a truck comes to collect them. We also create bales of cardboard (lots of these), and bales of plastic wrapping, which have a few inches of cardboard each side and plastic in the middle like an ice cream sandwich.

I used to cycle to the Garden Centre at Syon House in London, where you could also visit the historic house and/or grounds, the National Trust Shop, and have a meal or light refreshments at the Café. Not long before leaving the UK I went there to see a re-enactment of the Battle of Brentford.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brentford_(1642)

Now we actually have a garden, we've patronised several local places (Jerry's, Wal*Mart, Lowe's) which have a Gardening Center (!) but none of them realise that this can be turned into a whole day event with snacks and history thrown in.

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Re: My Garden Centre
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2010, 17:51:26 »
Thanks Elaine and Martin! :)

We used to have a pallet truck at home, but then we sold it to make room in the shed :( It was great fun lifting stuff up with it and moving it around! :D
 

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« Reply #14 on: June 11, 2010, 05:57:33 »
Well, what more can be said.  As ever, a joy to view and what great detail.  The layout of the centre is just like the garden centres in the real world, there's the detail of the leaves in the tractor trailer and the crates and bits untidily tossed in to the skip - wonderful!  Another contribution to go back time and again to enjoy.

I completely agree with Gordon, excellent attention to the small details that bring this to life!  :)9  :wave:

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Re: My Garden Centre
« Reply #15 on: June 11, 2010, 07:04:58 »
I completely agree with Gordon, excellent attention to the small details that bring this to life!  :)9  :wave:

Thanks you, Gepetto :)
 

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Re: My Garden Centre
« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2010, 14:25:27 »
i love your garden center!!! you must have a great real garden and spend lots of time in real garden centers judging by all of the details and the activity in your playmo garden center.  i love the little pots of annuals, veggie starts, the composting bins, the  piles of pallets in the back corners, everything.  thank you for shariing.
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« Reply #17 on: June 12, 2010, 16:35:29 »
i love your garden center!!! you must have a great real garden and spend lots of time in real garden centers judging by all of the details and the activity in your playmo garden center.  i love the little pots of annuals, veggie starts, the composting bins, the  piles of pallets in the back corners, everything.  thank you for shariing.
kaethe

Thanks, Kaethe :wave:

I am studying Horticulture at a college in London next year (well end of this year when term starts) so I am very familier with everything :)
 

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Re: My Garden Centre
« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2010, 21:40:38 »
Thanks, Kaethe :wave:

I am studying Horticulture at a college in London next year (well end of this year when term starts) so I am very familier with everything :)

So your plans are becoming reality - excellent.  Will we see a Playmobil themed garden at the Chelsea Flower Show one year?
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Re: My Garden Centre
« Reply #19 on: June 13, 2010, 21:55:32 »
So your plans are becoming reality - excellent.  Will we see a Playmobil themed garden at the Chelsea Flower Show one year?

As a succesor to James May's plasticine garden?

Great display, Flatcat. You really have thought of everything!
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