Armchair Gardening - The Salad Bowl Greenhouses

With spring in sight, or at least in yearning, this is the time to start thinking about your yard - your outdoor rooms. We can't do much in our yards yet, but we can plan, plan, plan.

First question on your gardening 2011 list should be: what will this spring, summer, fall and winter be for us?

• hosting any special events?
• moving?
• welcoming a new baby or grandparent or exchange student?
• want to start the "gardening bug" in the hearts of little ones?
• will you be away? Holiday? Cottage?
• have trees and shrubs grown or been removed from your or your neighbour's yard?
• are you wishing to create more gardening space?
• is someone in your family ill?

Contemplate these questions and others you might think of.

Keeping a gardening journal with your thoughts on the above questions is an easy way to prevent becoming overwhelmed at planting time. My journal is a spiral notebook that goes with me everywhere. Yours should be whatever you need it to be - even just a calendar with square boxes works well.

We open in 66 days! Next blog we'll talk about how hosting a special event at your home affects how you garden this year.

Spring 2011 is around the corner..really... spring is coming. Once again the trees will leaf out, the lilacs will fill the air with fragrance and both the willing (joyful) and the unwilling (chore) gardener will see a clean canvas with which to paint.



We are a family owned operation with a combined over 60 years of business experience in flowers and vegetable material with which you can create your yard rooms. We look forward to our regular friends who usually know what they want and yet are curiously excited about anything new they can try. We also always take time for the newbee who hasn't a clue, who sees gardening as a daunting and overwhelming chore. We are excited about gardening and enjoy ingniting that same excitement in you!



Come and enjoy our massive selection of unusual and standard bedding plants, ornamental grasses, spike alternatives, perennials, daisies and much more. We will personally assist you in your gardening desires no matter how large or small the requirement.



We offer pop-out'n beauty selections - which makes planting fast and easy, 4 part garden mix or,professional soilless mix. We buy fertlizer by the pound, bag it ourselves and pass on the saving to you at reasonable prices.



Finished hanging baskets, patio pots, wallbags, kettles, and novelty planters are mostly one-of-a-kind items, although we can usually make up an indentical or similar one if you insist. Enjoy the rarely seen living wreaths and living walls! Hypertufa rocks and rock houses are one-of-a-kind items, all hand-made.



We are most excited about the line of black tubs, planters, baskets we will be offering this year...

all are totally made from recycled pots!



We offer free landscaping tips and will provide that personal touch by planting your pots for you with your colour schemes and personal preferences in mind. Dropping off your pots May 2nd, our opening day, will ensure the best selection. We keep your pots maintained until fear of frost is gone. You can pick them up or we can deliver.



Related to gardening.....we sell scrubbies!! Don't know what that is....ask the closest person to you and they'll share what they use their scrubbies for....because scrubbies are fantastic and we've lost count on how many we've sold.



Also related to gardening.....once the flowerbeds have been prepared, the lawn raked, the trim painted, etc., and the backrub only a dream.....consider the no-need-4-'nother (nnn) scratch your back, back scratcher. Since our backs are always out of our reach, and there never seems to be a line-up of back scratching volunteers, we have designed (patent-pending) a do-it-yourself back scratcher that does the job very well, can be done anywhere at anytime, and rolls up to a very small carry-along item.

Keerp checking this site as we will be updating frequently. Remember....planting season is as close as 2 months away.



Our website will be up and running soon...stay tuned for updates. Watch the mail for our coupon so you can save even more.