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!
Thank you! I will!
We put the ‘bones’ in place today for our Natural Christmas, and also practiced our “Disney Answer’ for customers that complain we don’t have artificial trees, ornaments, light sets, etc. anymore, which will be, “I’m sorry if we disappointed you, but we’ve decided to do what we do BEST as a GARDEN CENTER and that’s fresh cut Christmas Trees, fresh greenery and green gifts for the Holidays.” (A ‘Disney Answer’ is what Corporate WANTS you to say to explain a situation, not necessarily what YOU want to say...I won’t tell you what I want to say, other than, ‘Praise the Lord! I don’t have to decorate a dozen fake Christmas Trees this year! Wa-Hoo!’)
I’ll be tweaking it in the month to come. The trick is to make it look full and pretty and not like Christmas...yet! The last thing to go up will be the lights on the arbors, when the Points arrive that week before Thanksgiving.
It’s looking very pretty so far and when I get some photos posted, I’ll give you a link to my Facebook account where you can see them. :)