Sheen Garden Centre has beautiful plants, shrubs and all things plant indoor / outdoor related. What it doesn't have is service oriented staff. I went in on a Saturday and proceeded to ask for a recommendation on what interior plants would be good for someone who isn't good with maintaining plants... (aka: what doesn't need to be watered too much and still thrives) not one but two of the staff looked at me like I had eight heads. Is this a strange question? I would think not? I went ahead and made a list of all the plants I liked that looked easy enough to maintain.
I came back at the end of my shift to order for delivery plants that I had picked out. Granted, we walked in at 10 minutes to 6 p.m. which is when they close, we knew we were cutting it tight. I walked up to the same staff person that I had chatted with earlier in the day and told her I was here to order the plants I had previously picked out. The staff member seemed to be very upset that I took her away from writing in the ledger and proceeded to tell me that "we close in 10 minutes." I told her no problem, we'd picked everything out already and again she said, "Whatever you can do in 10 minutes, if you can."
I just think there could have been an easier and nicer way to be told that we didn't have the time to buy our plants. Instead, we were being scolded for spending money in the establishment. She could have gotten up and helped us bring our selections to the till or just apologized that we didn't have enough time but please come back the next day.
I just don't get it. And we won't be getting our plants from there. read more