A Grower Perspective

FOOD For Lane County, one of our favorite organizations, was out to pick up plants today for their upcoming plant sale. We encourage you to support this amazing organization by attending this fundraiser. Proceeds benefit their food growing program.  Here are details of this event: Spring Plant Sale to Benefit the FOOD for Lane County Gardens Program April 2 10:00am - 5:00pm GrassRoots Garden 1465 Coburg Road behind St. Thomas Episcopal Church

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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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As I've said before, Passionflower is my favorite store in Eugene, Oregon.  Her most recent blog post offers some wonderful inspiration for ornamentation in the garden. This is Jewel's photo from her blog.  I love her ideas and how beautiful her displays are. Check out her post here In fact, I think I'll go down to her store today to view what garden art she has right now.   I'm sure I'll find something perfect!

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We're getting lots of calls and drop-in visitors with questions about damaged/sickly plants in their landscape. Just a few moments ago, we had a gal drop by this morning with branches from a dead plant. Let us put your minds at ease: You did not kill your plant. It is not your fault. Remember, we had a very tough winter with three days of subfreezing temps. It was very hard on all but the hardiest of plants.

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