Why Are Tickets So Expensive??

[Alice]

At the risk of offending anybody (my God I'm taking a risk) I think they set the prices at this level to keep the riff raff out. That's us guys. Real gardeners with dirty hands. Peasants who actually grow things. Folk who know something about the price of tatties. My God, we don't want folk like that at the Garden Show. If they have to worry about £28 for a ticket we don't want them lowering the tone of the event , do we? Think I must be paranoid tonight. Talking about nobody but myself.

[bramble]

Alice, your right, hit the nail right on the head. Thats me too your talking about.Peasants, see if we care

[supagranz]

Never mind the price of the ticket what about all the precious water they are wasting At Chelsea they are boring a hole in the ground so the will be able to use 4,400 (ish) gallons of water per day NOT to drink Just to water their flowers....What a waste

[bramble]

Don't know if i agree with that supagranz. If people are allowed to fill their swimming pools why should'nt Chelsea be allowed to water their flowers especially as they are drilling for their own water. I say, live and let live.

[rosiesmumof4]

I went to the one at Harrogate and thought that was expensive enough (i think it was £12) did buy some interesting plants, but they weren't cheap either, and i had been hoping to see some powered garden gear for comparisons but there wasn't any! (things like cordless/elctric/petrol hedgecutters etc)

[valmarg]

I agree, anything to do with the RHS is expensive +++++.

I have been a member since the early 1960's. At that time you used to get the option of one or two FREE tickets to members' day at Chelsea, ie Tuesday depending on the amount you paid for membership. Now you have to pay an extortionate amount on top of your membership.

I can rememer when the RHS started to get really greedy. It was when they offered the 'join here' bandwagon outside Chelsea on 'members only' day, ie Tuesday. From there it went downhill, until they had to restrict the number of entrants. Why it is a 'registered' charity I just don't know!

I agree, any show tainted by the RHS is just too expensive for your average gardener, and the TV coverage of, for example, Chelsea, is only interested in the 'Show Gardens'. Whereas most real gardeners would be more interested in the plants in what used to be known as the great marquee, but they gloss over them as if they didn't exist.

I know when we used to go to Chelsea, the only attraction we wanted to visit was the marquee. The outside gardens were of minor interest, but the BBC (in it's wisdom) seems to think that this is the only part of Chelsea that deserves coverage and joe public wants to see. The BBC is simply massaging the over inflated egoes of the designers of gardens that you would most definitely NOT want anywhere near your house.