H has been nattering about visiting the Lavender fields for ages, all those memories, endless fields of purple spreading across the french countryside.ahhhh........
Purple fields stretching out towards a distant horizon
Fast forward............. we decide to do a walk that visited the renouned Yorkshire Lavender centre.
Well advertised as a major attraction, we had seen leaflets on show in all the main tourist outlets,we picked up our leaflet at Sutton Bank. It looked good, well worth a visit, photos showed extensive fields of purple reaching out to the horizon.
So on arrival we were shocked to find a small garden centre with an extensive cafe/shop area full and only half an acre of lavender parked on a hillside.
I consulted the leaflet it definitely showed distant fields of Purple BUT now they were a suspicious paler shade of GREEN.
We had a walk round the shop/cafe, it was doing a roaring trade, dissapointed as I was I had to take my hat off to the owners craft.
By importing most of the products from Europe, backing it up with creative advertising and a few photoshop skills they had managed to attract thousands of visitors to a tiny garden centre in a backwater of Yorkshire.................Pure Genius.
Small but perfectly formed