Well, Mother’s Day weekend 2009 is history.  Lots of hanging baskets and other beautiful flowers went riding home to moms all over the Ohio Valley this weekend.  But if you didn’t get yours yet, don’t worry! There are still more to choose from at Ferda’s Garden Center.  Also lots of bedding plants, vegetable plants, trees and shrubs.  The season has only just begun.

When you are looking around your yard, trying to decide what flowers and shrubs you would like to plant, don’t forget that we have a We Plan/You Plant program that can help.  We come to your home and talk with you about your wants and needs for a specific area in your yard, and leave you with a sketch and plant suggestions for the space.  The cost for this service is $100, payable before the appointment.  With your sketch, we give you a coupon for $50 to use on the purchase of your plants for the area– minimum purchase $200– so the program ends up costing you only $50.  If you decide that you want us to install the landscape, then we apply the entire $100 to the cost of the installation.

Call today for details and to set up an appointment for your consultation. 

Wow! Where did the month go? It’s Mother’s Day weekend already. Time to bring Mom out to Ferda’s to look at all the beautiful flowers, blooming trees and shrubs and, of course, hanging baskets!  We have a lot to choose from, dripping with color– our beautiful combination baskets, New Guinea impatiens, vining geraniums, begonias and much, much more.  Shop early in the day for best selections.

We took a day off this week and looked around at other garden centers to see just where we were in comparison.  I think we have them all beat.  Come in and see if you agree.

Written by Lynn on the slope of Teasel Hill where the rain has quit and the fog has set in.

We’ve started to plant up our beautiful combination baskets that you love so well!  The flowering plants are arriving as plugs, and we’re transplanting them into the baskets.  By Mother’s Day they will be beautiful, full baskets dripping with color!  We keep careful notes from year to year about what combinations looked good, held up over the growing season, and were the most popular, and we eliminate the not-so-good ones, and grow more of the good ones.  By tweaking the selection, we make sure we have the ones you like when you are ready for them.  They grow like thunder once the sun comes out to heat up the greenhouses.

We know you are as anxious for Spring as we are.  You (or your neighbors) came out in force on Saturday, the first day we were open, to buy pansies, to order fruit trees and to just get a shot of spring from the earthy smell of the greenhouses. 

Rain is predicted for later in the week, and that’ll set back our gardening efforts.  But it’s coming! I can feel it!

We send you an Irish blessing on this St Patrick’s Day evening:

May the rains sweep gentle across your fields,
May the sun warm the land,
May every good seed you have planted bear fruit,
And late summer find you standing in fields of plenty.

Written by Lynn on the slope of Teasel Hill on St Patrick’s Day evening.