Welcome To Floral and Hardy Gardens.
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Here On Earth....
We promise to do our level best to make you thrilled with our service and products. We want to become your favourite place for Hosta, Heuchera and Daylilies.
| What's Happening Updated July 10, 2010 |
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Peak bloom is here and will continue for the next couple of weeks. Our gardens have never looked better. If you have been planning to visit us, now is a great time. You can drop in any day between 10:00 am and 4:30 pm to wander the gardens. If you plan to purchase plants, give Betty a heads-up by email so we can ensure that we are adequately staffed. Visits on Sunday are encouraged, but there are no sales. Email is the best way to contact us as we carry Blackberries. Phone messages do not get answered nearly as quickly in the summer.
Betty and I thank you so much for your tremendous support this year. It is greatly appreciated and enables us to continue doing what we love.Since bloom season is now upon us, we will not again be shipping until August. You may,however, continue to place orders, and we will ship when blooming is past.Please keep in mind that due to all the activity during the summer, the website availabilities and quantities may be in-accurate.It is absolutely essential when placing an order to supply us with a substitution list, or state clearly that substitutions are not allowed.
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In my many years as an optometrist, when people asked me what I "did", I would always say I was both an Optometrist and an Optimist.
After my illness took from me the ability to practice, the "optimist" part remained. And who is more optimistic than a gardener. We all see the beauty in what is to be - in what can be. And we all take the joy of that future beauty in our minds and hearts when we plan our next wee bit of heaven in our next bit of garden.
Like many gardeners, and like all optimists, I tried to convince myself that any given zone 7 plant would LOVE it in my zone 4 raised beds. And I spent many hours with the anticipation of how beautiful something would be, only to sorrowfully collect little tombstone markers the following spring. The other obsession of mine is to save everything and make more of it. Cuttings and trimmings are hoarded and propagated - again the optimist. Years of practicing, fixing problems left their mark - I did not want other gardeners to also fall prey to the tender plant siren if they were not fully aware.
We now have a few newer passions - Hosta and Heuchera and more recently, Helleborus. So join with me in our passion for hardy plants and obsession for beauty. Did I mention we now have about 3200 registered Daylilies, plus about several thousand of our own seedlings, 450 hosta cultivars, and 138 heuchera cultivars. We also supply 2 great lines of metal markers. (more?)
