As Catherine McGhie and Stephan Peleck demonstrated the virtues of Wallgarden, they also are the perfect demonstration of how Home Exhibition 2014 in Brantford was up to date.
“I’ve been working most of a year on bringing it to the area but everything came only three weeks ago, in time for the show,” McGhie said as she stood in her booth in the civic centre with Peleck, her business partner.
Paris-based Wallgarden: Sales, Installation, Maintenance sells a wall system for potted plantings or herbs or flowers.
The product is manufactured from recycled plastic in Portugal. It can be stacked in vertical or horizontal preference against a wall, and can be irrigated by hand or by a pressure and plumbed system of plastic lines running through each tray.
“We tested the product for awhile in house and outside to make sure it works, then placed our orders,” McGhie said as patrons to the show stopped to consider the product’s possibilities.
Peleck also runs a complementary business, Fixtures, in Paris, and he and McGhie operate as partners to offer a wider home furnishing product.
Wallgarden was one of many home improvement, finance and management ideas available to thousands of visitors who walked the show’s aisles from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon.
The event attracted more than 70 exhibitors with a mix of local and national companies.
The displays and their representatives ranged from home design, construction and landscaping to the specialized installation of plumbing, windows, doors, roofing, fireplaces, painting and decorating.
For the outside, there were companies ready to sell landscaping, lawn and garden equipment, patios and fencing.
The number and variety of companies represented – from established firms to upstart enterprises offered options and competition.
At Ringuette Windows and Doors, owner Matt Ringuette touted his company’s products.
“We sell exclusively locally made Canadian products because we want to support our community,” he said, pointing to products in the Mitten line.
“A lot of really big manufacturing firms are in the U.S. and they produce for people there. There are products that are more suitable for our local climate, such as Mitten Vinyl, which everyone around here knows.”
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