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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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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  I realize that I'm pretty easy to please and little things make me happy most of the time.  We were having a little get together at our home this weekend.  As I was sprucing things up, I realized our deck planters were looking pretty sad.  Towards the end of summer I had horribly neglected them and the endless heat of August and September had taken their toll.  I mentioned it to Dave and he kindly cleaned them up and replanted them.  When I came home, I was so happy to see what he had done.  

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Every August we have a booth at the Oregon Association of Nurseries’ Farwest Show in Portland, Oregon. It is the way that we touch base in person with many of our customers and hopefully each year we meet new ones as well. We spend three long days standing in our booth, greeting visitors, handing out our marketing materials and trying to get a read on the year ahead.

At these shows, we get a variety of inquiries and questions. Sometimes it is someone wanting to know where they can buy a particular variety of plant. Sometimes they just want to

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