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Hello, again!
I think sometimes at our jobs, we forget how much enjoyment we can provide in someone's everyday life. At the garden center we are fortunate to be able to work around living things - plants. I’ll share a conversation I had with a good cycling friend recently on his shopping experience at our store:
Marty, I just wanted to throw a shout out to your store. Great help and personality from your staff helping me with one good looking mini jade. Probably the wrong time of year but needed something to do this year so picked up the hobby of growing peppers and now wanted something for my office desk. I really enjoy it and learn so much! I had to go back to the store Saturday to get a pot. It was bugging me. I introduce to you, ‘Adam’. I love it!
People frequently ask me if we have a hard time filling positions at the store, and we really don’t. Our staff love working in an atmosphere where plants - indoor or outdoor - create a positive environment, and we enjoy assisting others creating this kind of atmosphere at their home or office.
Hopefully after the cold front passes through over the next few days and the forecasted precipitation provides us with some much needed moisture, we’ll be set to plant our spring flowering bulbs. I removed more of my summer annuals yesterday in preparation for planting winter hardy violas and pansies, as well as spring flowering bulbs. In front of my red brick house, I’ll usually go with brighter colors to show up well from the street. I have been using ‘Golden Apeldoorn’ tulips in the past as well as one of Piet’s blends, which provided several complementary colors that all bloomed at the same time. This year I’m going with either the blend ‘Sunrise Sunset’ which is a Darwin Hybrid tulip blend of mixed yellow, orange and reds or ‘April in Paris’ which is a blend of pastel colors. It’ll be a game day decision I’m sure.
At Angie’s place a few years back, we planted one of our ‘50 bulb assortments’ in a small area of her garden. These miscellaneous bulbs are great naturalizers and have returned each spring. A mixture of narcissus (daffodil), chionodoxa (glory of the snow), scilla (wood hyacinths), crocus and eranthis (winter aconite), the bulbs are usually the first to show color in her yard every year.
As you are shopping for bulbs, check out the assortment of miscellaneous bulbs either in the value pack or the prepackaged options. You won’t be disappointed!
And as Piet always stresses, be sure to feed your newly planted bulbs with Hi-Yield Bone Meal and just as important - be sure to water the newly planted bulbs thoroughly.
Your friend in the garden,
Marty Johnson
Owner - Johnson's Garden Centers
I think sometimes at our jobs, we forget how much enjoyment we can provide in someone's everyday life. At the garden center we are fortunate to be able to work around living things - plants. I’ll share a conversation I had with a good cycling friend recently on his shopping experience at our store:
Marty, I just wanted to throw a shout out to your store. Great help and personality from your staff helping me with one good looking mini jade. Probably the wrong time of year but needed something to do this year so picked up the hobby of growing peppers and now wanted something for my office desk. I really enjoy it and learn so much! I had to go back to the store Saturday to get a pot. It was bugging me. I introduce to you, ‘Adam’. I love it!
People frequently ask me if we have a hard time filling positions at the store, and we really don’t. Our staff love working in an atmosphere where plants - indoor or outdoor - create a positive environment, and we enjoy assisting others creating this kind of atmosphere at their home or office.
Hopefully after the cold front passes through over the next few days and the forecasted precipitation provides us with some much needed moisture, we’ll be set to plant our spring flowering bulbs. I removed more of my summer annuals yesterday in preparation for planting winter hardy violas and pansies, as well as spring flowering bulbs. In front of my red brick house, I’ll usually go with brighter colors to show up well from the street. I have been using ‘Golden Apeldoorn’ tulips in the past as well as one of Piet’s blends, which provided several complementary colors that all bloomed at the same time. This year I’m going with either the blend ‘Sunrise Sunset’ which is a Darwin Hybrid tulip blend of mixed yellow, orange and reds or ‘April in Paris’ which is a blend of pastel colors. It’ll be a game day decision I’m sure.
At Angie’s place a few years back, we planted one of our ‘50 bulb assortments’ in a small area of her garden. These miscellaneous bulbs are great naturalizers and have returned each spring. A mixture of narcissus (daffodil), chionodoxa (glory of the snow), scilla (wood hyacinths), crocus and eranthis (winter aconite), the bulbs are usually the first to show color in her yard every year.
As you are shopping for bulbs, check out the assortment of miscellaneous bulbs either in the value pack or the prepackaged options. You won’t be disappointed!
And as Piet always stresses, be sure to feed your newly planted bulbs with Hi-Yield Bone Meal and just as important - be sure to water the newly planted bulbs thoroughly.
Your friend in the garden,
Marty Johnson
Owner - Johnson's Garden Centers
