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!
My Aunt had a Christmas Cactus she kept it in her living room, a room no one ever sat in except during holidays when family over flowed into it. She had it for many years. I was always amazed that it bloomed when it was supposed to.
Sounds like fun! We’re pretty much done for the season. Sold out of pumpkins Sat, almost out of mums. Don’t do Christmas trees. Everybody and their bro does them here. We don’t do bulbs either—not a real good market for them here and anymore, it doesn’t get cold enough to plant them and not have them sprout. Besides which, we have an overabundance of voles/squirrels.
No JUNK? How dare you? LOL
I’d settle for not having any Christmas displays out until after Thanksgiving. Guess I’m showing my age. I like to have my holidays seperate, each in their own time. There’s just something about hearing carols at Halloween that turns me off.
We’re in down mode, and it will slow down even more. We need it, because we’ll start sowing cabbage, etc aaround C. Used to do it about Thanksgiving but the weahter has changed/stays warm longer in the fall/stays cool longer in the spring.
Enjoy your—well deserved!—break!