All the talk we've been hearing about food gardening this week made me think of this display I saw at Rolling Green Nursery in New Hampshire a couple of years ago.
We'd love to see the clever ways you're marketing edibles. Send your photo of the week images to smartinez@gie.net.
This week’s featured display garden comes from Marci McIntosh, marketing projects coordinator at Four Star Greenhouse in Carleton, Mich. Marci also offered this reminder:
“Each year, Michigan State University organizes the Michigan Garden Tour. It is the first two weeks of August, this year August 3-14. It’s a great opportunity to see display gardens at 7 different sites. For more info, visit www.hrt.msu.edu/planttour.”
We’re spotlighting display gardens on Open Register for the next few weeks. We’d love to see yours! Send in your images and description today!
Our photo of the week comes from Linda Shively, the public relations representative for Farmington Gardens in Beaverton, Oregon.
“In 2008, Farmington Gardens built this demo vegetable garden, to showcase how to grow veggies in a small space, and different strategies for growing vertically,” Shively said. “We also wanted to show that a vegetable garden can be an attractive part of your landscape, so we incorporated edible flowers as well. We utilize lots of signage, so the garden is an educational tool. We have had much interest in it!”
We’re spotlighting display gardens on Open Register for the next few weeks. We’d love to see yours! Send us the particulars.
For the next few weeks, we'll be highlighting display gardens on Open Register. The images above come from Platt Hill Nursery in Bloomingdale, Ill. The store's compact display garden includes a complete listing of all the "ingredients" consumers need to recreate the look at home.
We'd love to see photos of your display garden. Send the photos our way!
Our photo of the week comes from Ellen Barredo of Bowood Farms in St. Louis.
“Our display garden is in irrigated windowboxes” Ellen said. “The windows of our building face west so the vines shade and cool our building and show our urban customers how to do the same. The planting include hyacinth bean vine, passion vine, potato vine, scaevola, and scented geraniums.”
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This week's photo comes from Marlene A. Frisbie, controller at Hoffie Nursery.
"I'm [sending] a photo of Echinacea 'Virgin' from last summer," Marlene said. "It's been a very cold, snowy winter here and I'm quite ready to see white flowers instead of white precipitation! I wish the photo also carried the great scent of this flower. Bring on the spring!"
Beginning next week, Open Register will begin spotlighting display gardens as our photo of the week. Send your photos our way!
Before the Yuletide season comes to a close, we bring you some photos of the fantastic Christmas displays at DeWayne's Home & Garden Showplace in Selma, N.C.
Here's what Marcia Woodall, the store's marketing coordinator, had to say about this photo of the week submission: "These are a few of my favorites. Debra L. Raynor and her merchandising crew transformed our greenhouse into a Christmas decor showroom! Customers visit upstairs to see the year-round displays (all new designs for '08) and they visit the greenhouse to find even more designs for the season!"
The wreath decorating station at Russell's Garden Center, Wayland, Mass.
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A beautiful winter basket from Churchill's, Exeter, N.H.
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