‘Others should have followed me here’
Tuesday 18th October 2011, 2:29PM BST.
A WORLD-RENOWNED grower said yesterday that he wished others had followed his lead by moving to Guernsey.
Guernsey Clematis founder Raymond Evison (pictured) was guest speaker at the Chamber of Commerce lunch at The Old Government House Hotel.
He spoke of how, in the early 1980s, as junior partner and managing director of the UK company Treasures of Tenby, he had chosen to set up business in Guernsey partly due to the climate.
Mr Evison, who now has 23 Chelsea Flower Show gold medals to his name, bought his first glasshouse site in Guernsey for £20,000 at a time when he said he had only £23,000 in his pocket.
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Mr Evison has in some ways put Guernsey on a very specialised horticulurists’ map, his clematis are world renowned, he has been instrumental in bringing horticultural fame and business back to Guernsey, in this day and age – he instigated and undertook re-vitalisation of the Victorian garden at Saumarerez Park.
I greatly admire his foresight,knowledge and expertise, in coming to Guernsey in the first place; am I cheeky in asking how he managed it with just 23k in his pocket? Today, he would be backed to the hilt, as he should be, but then…
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Just goes to show the importance of not allowing vinery sites to be built on.
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Well we’ve been saying for years now that Greenhouses are more than just ‘Houses of Glass.
They can be used for growing most anything,
during the war they were a God send for our food, so why can’t those who own these places use them.
Stop importing those red things that look like tomatoes, but have no taste,
Early lettuce Radish, onions, beans we grew most vegetables.
But today it’s easier to go to a supermarket and buy those items that go under the names of things I just mentioned.
OK so people don’t wish to work those places, yet perhaps a few might just do it.
People out of work might have an incentive, if they had a bit of backing.
It’s all in the mind.
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