To help us understand what schools need from a greenhouse we donated this Rhino 8x18 to a Norfolk school.

They have found the flush door option perfect for the children and use two Rhino growbeds for direct planting. Two 4ft stagings are used back to back in the centre of the partition so that the children cann all work around the same bench. The children hav sown bedding plants, sunflowers and tomatoes.The greenhouse is being used as an outside learning environment, unaffected by the weather, the teachers linking the work to a variety of curriculum areas.. The greenhouse is proving a great success so far, especially with the kids who seem to love getting their hands dirty!

Three weekends of hard slog were almost over when gardener John Watson came to fit the sliding doors on his new aluminium greenhouse. "Then to my utter horror I discovered that I had built the base wrongly so the doors were at the back instead of the front. It meant dismantling the whole lot" John tells Crusader.

He called the supplier, Greenhouses Direct. Their adviser Bill Campbell came to his rescue. "He said he could send a part which meant I could adapt the front with a runner" says John from Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.

The part arrived two days later and Bill was at the end of the phone line while he attached the new fitting."He was eager to help and solved many problems. Greenhouses Direct deserve a medal for such professional after-sales attention," declares John.