The Garden Center is currently working on our 6th Annual
Fall Festival. The official dates are October 14th, 15th and
16th from 9 am – 5 pm. We are so excited to have Lou’s Bonsai returning as well as our own brilliant & creative Designers and a
help desk from the University of Florida with its Garden Masters
to answer all your gardening questions.
In addition, there will
be production walks of the cold hardy material we grow at our
nursery. We have ninety acres under production. Some of our
specialties are tropical cold hardy palms and gorgeous Ligustrum
trees that we have been growing for up to eighteen years.
We
also will be having a couple of different speakers from different
services. Our Irrigation department will have two complete
displays set up: the conventional irrigation system and a low
water management system. Each will have meters and valves
to switch the two systems so you can actually see the difference
in gallon usage. Also, our Gardening Maintenance division has
the Retail Garden Center as a client to show off!
Here comes Christmas right around the palm tree!
We have ordered our
Frasier Firs directly from our personal growers out of Northwest
North Carolina and Southwest Virginia in the heart of the Blue
Ridge Mountains.
The Frasier Fir has continued to edge out
all other species by major retailers and wholesalers because of
its endurance, marketability and functionality. |
The Frasier Fir
is known as the “Cadillac of all Christmas Trees.”
It has soft,
pleasant-to-touch needles, incomparable needle retention,
long lasting aroma, and more pliable yet stronger branches for
even the heaviest ornaments. For our end of year event we will
continue our tradition of the Holiday Spectacular. If you have missed it before, be sure to pay us a visit this year.
As you drive
along River Road you’ll see lights in the distant trees. That is the
entrance to our Garden Center. As you enter and come up our
driveway lined with lights you pass through our scenic displays
created by each of our company’s seven divisions; Pavers,
Maintenance, Landscape, Irrigation, Design, Accounting and
finally the Garden Center where all the magic happens. We will
have Frasier Firs all decked out in our 20,000 square foot green
house. All the fresh cut trees will be sitting in water with overhead
irrigation operating at night to help preserve them for as
long as possible.
Poinsettias will be everywhere; wreaths hanging
here and there; large gifts covered with lights, some reindeer and
of course holiday music that brings out the child in everyone and
memories that will last a lifetime.
Brian Chuchro
Retail Garden Center Manager
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