Botanicals, Garden Centres

Garden Centres

I started my I have decided to start my research for my new unit - Botanicals, by looking at garden centres and what they sell. Although i plan a trip to a garden centre soon i thought i would start today by looking online. I started with a place called Dobbies, the closest one to me is in Edinburgh.

At this point i am unsure what i will be doing for this unit, what i mean by this is what what direction i will be going e.g. fine art, textiles, photography, film, video etc. So i decided to just have a look and see what kind of stuff they sell and see where i can go from there.

So what do they sell?

Online they sell bigger items like benches, BBQ's, gardening tools etc. but i did manage to get a look at some of there labeling for seed packets and gift cards.

I thought these were good to look at because they show what kind of imagery they use, very simple and what you see is what you get. I like that they are fine art photography, and it has made me think more about labeling and imagery i could use for packaging... I will be able to see more when i go and visit a garden centre.

I also found another one called - Pentland plants garden centre, they do not sell stuff online but it shows me what i can get at the gift shop or an idea of what i can get.

I then went out to a range of garden centers to see what i could find...

http://www.pentlandplantsgardencentre.co.uk/gift-shop/

https://www.dobbies.com

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