A Grower Perspective

If you want to read a great piece about creating stress-relieving outdoor spaces, check out this article in today's (7/23/09) Register-Guard's Home & Garden special section:

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Do you feel like taking the whole summer off and lolling around on a chaise lounge, berry picking, swimming in the perfect swimming hole, hanging out with friends and not having a timeline for anything?  I do.  But for some reason being a grown up has gotten in the way of summers like this.  I have thought of a way to bring this about on a daily basis in a small way, just to have that summertime feeling.  The name of my program is One a Day.   You don't need to reserve this for summer only; you can do it all year round.  So all you do is try one new thing a day; a new food, a new way to drive home or maybe a new mode of transportation, visit a new place in your town or city, be the tourist of your own town.  You can do this is your home as well, add a bouquet of garden flowers, move your furniture around, eat outside sitting on the ground with a picnic cloth, go meet your neighbors you've been meaning to get to know, paint a wall, get some watercolors and paint anything.  My sister, when she was around ten, would clean her room at the beginning of summer, put up a canvas tent in the side yard and move out until school started again.   Have some fun.   As you are going around, stop into our nursery for your first time or just to say hello if you've been here many times before.  We'd like to see you.  We'd like to be your One a Day.

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I often say this to people I know but I want to say it publicly.  Pleasant Hill Nursery has the most amazing group of people working here.  Every day I feel pride and gratitude for the employees that make up our team.  They are passionate about what they do.  They care about the customers we have.  And they treat our business as if it were their own.  As a business owner, what more can you ask? 

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  If you want to know how trees cool the earth, take a drive in the country with your hand outside the window.  As you drive along you will notice the change in temperature between the grassland and the wood areas.  Enough said.

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Go out into your yard today and clip a little of this and a little of that, you might be surprised at your own creativity and with the beautiful arrangement you produce. That’s exactly the kind of arrangement you see pictured here. Many of the plants you see here are common landscape plants, like wax leaf privet, pieris and lavender. Throw in some Spirea japonica ‘Shirobana’, Hemerocallis ‘Siloam Fairy Tale’, Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’, and an Italian sunflower and viola! A fabulous arrangement without the trip to the florist’s shop!

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