A Grower Perspective

Dave and I had the pleasure of attending the NW Flower & Garden Show last week in Seattle, Washington. This was the first year we’ve attended and I must say it was quite impressive.  The show filled up several rooms of the downtown Seattle convention center. The display gardens were absolutely stunning.  Huge. I couldn’t begin to imagine how much work must have gone into designing and constructing  these massive gardens inside the convention center.

I was thinking about how to sum up my feelings about this show. I think I went believing that I’d come back with my focus on plants. However, what really struck me at this show was the creativity and inspiration I felt about garden design. I was overwhelmed with the design inspiration I felt about creating outdoor living spaces with everything from plantings, pavers and night lighting to art, accessories and outdoor structures galore. I’ve never felt such a desire to get out into my own garden

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Next week is the annual Oregon Association of Nurseries’ Farwest Show (8/26-8/28).  We have been an exhibitor at this show for many years and always find it to be a great source of business leads and a good chance to catch up with our customers and fellow nursery and industry professionals.  We head into this year’s show with some uncertainty due to this dreadful economy.  We’ve heard that there will be less exhibitors this year - not a big surprise given the times. I’m guessing we’ll see less attendees too with people cautiously guarding every dollar they spend. 

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It was wonderful to see our friends at Fall Creek Farm & Nursery get some positive press on the Garden Center Magazine blog:

They are right on with their theme:  Every Season.  Every Garden.

At Pleasant Hill Nursery, we’ve always loved blueberry  plants and the bountiful harvest of healthful fruit they produce.  However, blueberries are a versatile plant for container gardening and the landscape too.  They offer spring blooms that are really pretty in varying shades of whites, pinks and blues.  Of course, the summer fruit is

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Today is Thanksgiving Day.  Dave and I have so much to be grateful for in life and in our business at Pleasant Hill Nursery.  We are immensely proud of our nursery.  It has been nearly thirty years in the building process, many of those years were tough.  Some were incredibly stressful.  For those of you in the nursery business, you know this is not an easy way to make a living - especially this year.

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I have always been a believer in the power of positive thinking.  I find myself struggling a bit this year to maintain my somewhat pollyanna outlook on life.  This economy is enough to test even the most optimistic thinker like me.

 I had to laugh outloud when I saw this sign at displayed at our Farwest Show the other day.  It was in

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