Sounds great, Di! The flowerbed and the carpet!
Glad your sales were up. We don’t keep such accurate records/still grazing with the dinosaurs here. But...I can tell you that we sold way more than last year. I write down what we plant/ when we run out. By the numbers, we did way more and we are out of everything but lettuce. Planted my barrels at the bottom of my steps today.
I have one more week to sell pumpkins and hay bales and other ‘Undead Accoutrements’ and then it’s on to cleaning out the nursery yard and setting up for fresh Christmas trees, potted living trees, fresh greenery, wreaths, swags, roping, bows, etc.
We start tearing down our fall bulb display inside and setting up for Christmas (a very natural one; no artificial, no JUNK this year) starting tomorrow. It is going to be a shock to many of our customers, but if they want a Santa-based Christmas, they can go to Farm & Fleet or Target, who are our closest competitors.
Poinsettias are booked, and I will order everything else I need, plant-wise (Christmas Cactus, Amaryllis, Paperwhite bulbs for forcing, Cyclamen) for the holidays this week.
My favorite part? A Field Trip to the local florist wholesaler to buy speed-wraps and ribbon and care tags and pretty baskets and stuff; I and one of my talented staffers make a lot of our floral displays out of live house plants and jazz them up for Christmas. We’ll also be doing custom porch pots with fresh greenery, pine cones, red twig dogwood, curly willow, etc.
Fresh-cut, local Christmas trees will be here the week before Thanksgiving, and then it’s a full-court press until December 24th.
And then, blessed, blessed January & February when I can FINALLY put my feet up, LOL!