Saturday morning Perennial Paradise Garden Sale was scheduled to open at 7:00 a.m. Through the night, I was sick and had the chills. I tried very hard to sleep knowing I had a 12 hour day in front of me or more. Finally at 4:00 a.m. I fell asleep! At 4:30 a.m. the alarm woke up. One may ask, why so early? To own a business there is a lot more at stake than just a lot full of perennials. That is the easy part!
Feeling very sick and dizzy I tripped over the couch and fell [click to continue...]
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Several years ago, I made it a habit each spring to purchase young sapling trees from the Clearwater Soil and Conservation office. These trees are economical and you can purchase large quantities for good prices. The difference in buying these trees and the trees you buy at a local nursery is that you have to wait longer for maturity. They range in sizes from 15 inches - 3 feet in height depending on the variety you are buying. Each year I made it a pact to buy at least 200 trees and each year the survival rate was quite low. My soil on my property is poor consisting of gravel, sand and clay.
My kids were small at this time and I always felt it was a waste to use disposable diapers as I knew they would just end up in the landfills. [click to continue...]
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1. A clipper
There are all sorts of clippers out there. I personally like Fiskars. They are reliable and don’t break after the 5th use. When gardening you need to be able to snip this and that at a moments notice, clipping off branches, dead heading, not good for clipping your finger nails. [click to continue...]
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More and more I am finding that people are becoming more involved in gardening. Years back when I began landscaping. I can remember many smirks and side comments from individuals that thought this was only a woman’s hobby. Gardening is for males and females alike! [click to continue...]
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Perennial Paradise now offers for the month of August and September, 2008 an online coupon for customers. Several of you have been receiving emails from my email address up until we launched the website: perennialparadise.org. Isn’t the internet a wonderful tool for communicating! This coupon entitles you to purchase 10 perennials and get 1 free, while supplies last. [click to continue...]
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