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Weekly News, 05.30.23
VIEW THIS WEEK’S EMAIL NEWSLETTER After the mad rush of spring planting and garden maintenance, it’s a relief to take a more leisurely approach to gardening this month. Here is your June Gardening Checklist, and a few things we’re looking forward to: Sunday, June 11th is our Summer Open House, when...
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Weekly News, 05.23.23
VIEW THIS WEEK’S EMAIL NEWSLETTER One of my daughter’s recent assignments for school was to enhance a space, then write about it. The idea was that we have wonderful opportunities to improve our lives, if we choose. For example, organize your bedroom or closet, pot up a flower arrangement for...
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Weekly News, 05.17.23
view this week’s email newsletter I love to be home. I try to save most of my errands so I can just make one trip. Recently the girls and I had to go to Bridgeville, so we hit up all the places on our list. As we drove (and sat)...
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Weekly News, 05.09.23
view this week’s email newsletter This is when—right before the mad spring rush—my heart starts to beat a little faster. I watch as plants we’ve grown from seed, plugs and unrooted cuttings come into bloom. And I want everything for my own yard and garden! I tell myself that I...
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Weekly News, 3.21.23
I spend a lot of my time on the farm at my desk working on my computer. Most of us know that we need breaks from sitting throughout the day. But I delay that break, again and again, telling myself that I’ll get up after I finish this email or...
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Weekly News, 2.22.23
You know that saying, do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life? It’s not exactly true, for me anyway. We work really hard at what we love because we believe in how important it is. We shared this message with students at a local school...
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Weekly News, 2.7.23
Have you noticed how days are getting longer? More daylight feels as good for us as it does for our plants, that’s for sure. I thought it might be fun to give you a peek into everything that happens behind the scenes leading up to spring. Like you, we spent...
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Weekly News, 10.25.22
Hello, Last week I mentioned that I was doing some garden “editing” in a large landscape bed that we have. I love to make some changes in the fall, after my ideas are fresh from the season. I encourage you to do the same. It makes the spring so much...
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Weekly News, 10.18.22
Hello friends, How did your garden grow this year? Just like life, the garden is always changing and a work in progress. To capture moments of time we take photos. Some of us perhaps are more worried about the pictures than enjoying the moment. There’s something about the passing of...
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Weekly News, 08.01.22
Happy August! A few of us are on the road this week at the National Perennial Plant Symposium, so I’ll keep this brief. Here are a few notes this week: we recently planted up some fresh, colorful container gardens. If you need something fresh to get you through to fall,...
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Weekly News, 07.26.22
Hi gardening friends, One of the to-do’s on our July gardening checklist is to visit other gardens. I’ve always loved visiting our customers’ homes to see what you create with the plants that you get from us. I always admire their hard work and come away inspired. Recently I had...
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Weekly News, 07.20.22
Hello, Have you been by to pick up some of our fresh produce yet this summer? Did you even know that we grow fresh vegetables? A lot of people visit us in the spring only, and don’t realize that we are here to serve you through other seasons too—summer, fall,...
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Weekly News, 07.12.22
Hello there, Do you do much reading? My book list from the last few years was mostly on business topics, but recently I read a fun book—The Secret Garden, by Francis Hodgson Burnett. I only came upon it because it was a recommended read aloud for our home school botany...
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Weekly News, 06.29.22
Hi there, I hope that you’ve had some time to be outside and enjoy the garden lately. Watering during the super hot summer days can feel like a chore sometimes, but I try to take in the daily changes and growth whileI’m watering. One recent morning I was frustrated and...
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Weekly News, 06.01.22
Hello gardening friends, I was excited to come across this quote by EO Wilson – “Just being surrounded by bountiful nature, rejuvenates and inspires us.” It has the same two words that are in our Mission statement: We provide our community with Quality plants, products, services, and experiences that rejuvenate...
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Weekly News, 05.24.22
Hello there, I hope that you’ve had some time recently to get in the garden and get your hands dirty! I had so much fun on Saturday night planting over sixty Sunpatiens in my patio pots and landscape beds. This year I decided to plant all seven of my pots...
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Weekly News, 05.17.22
Hi there, Who else can’t wait for fresh, homegrown vegetables? Do you grow your own food at home? I wasn’t fortunate to grow up with gardening. My dad had a small vegetable garden for a few years, but I never helped him or learned what he was doing. I got...
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Weekly News, 05.11.22
Happy Wednesday Friends, Did you know that just 20 minutes a day in a garden can reduce stress levels? There is even scientific evidence to prove it, such as this one that studied the impact of a hospital garden on burnout among nurses. During the month of May, we are...
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Weekly News, 05.03.22
Hi there, The weather has seemed to finally break and we are in full spring planting mode! The garden center is fully stocked and ready for eager gardeners. The hanging baskets are all beginning to explode with color. Not to put a damper on things, but to be perfectly honest,...
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Weekly News, 04.26.22
Hello gardening friends, With Arbor Day this Friday, I’m thinking about trees with thanks this week. It was a Horticulture class at CCAC called “Woody Plant Identification” by Joann Hall that really opened me and Russ’ eyes to trees. For years I didn’t always notice or admire the huge catalpa...
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