As you know if you’re a regular newsletter reader, Abby and Maddy love to play outside. They remind me of myself when I was a kid. I was just talking to my brother the other day and we were reminiscing about how we had little nooks and crannies all over the yard for various forts and clubhouses. Sometimes we used a giant stand of philodendron. Sometimes it was a cavernous grouping of ligustrums, and if we were brave, we had a little spot under some blue plumbago.
Abby and Maddy have chosen similar areas around our yard. They found a new one the other day, just behind the chicken coop and spent the day clearing and flattening a little hidden area. Abby lined the area with cardboard boxes to make a wall, and Madeleine cleared grape vines that were encroaching. Then they made a discovery: a cluster of old snake plants from container gardens of years past. You know a plant is tough when you leave it for dead in a compost heap and years later you find it just growing away.
Abby and Maddy are definitely the kids of plant people, because their first inclination was to dig their discovered plants up to save them. But then they had a better idea. They came to me and said, “What if we divide them up and put them into a bunch of pots. We could sell them at the nursery. Will you buy them from us?”
Sure, girls, you take care of those plants for the next four months and make them full and beautiful and we’ll talk then, is what I wanted to say. But I just smiled and said, “Of course. They will make someone’s home beautiful.” They even managed to recruit me as labor for their project, and I helped them dig plants while they potted away. We’ll see how it goes. At the very least, they created some cute little plants to decorate their newest clubhouse with.
As we start to turn the corner from summer to fall, lots of new stuff is arriving at the nursery, including fall Veggies, Mums, and Supertunias®. Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the start of this year’s Pumpkin Patch. Cronus Big Stems, Gladiators, Crystal Whites, and Warty Goblins will make their appearance on October 1st. A new addition this year is a Pumpkin Wall which will be filled with pumpkins and fall decorations, perfect for fall photos outdoors in the open air. It is just about time to Make Fall Happen. I don’t know about you, but I am looking forward to a new season.
