So I thought last week was busy.  You guys really love your plants. That make us happy. We’ve dubbed the shop the botanical petri dish at the moment.  If you happened by the shop yesterday you would have seen as many plants on the front sidewalk as were inside.  We had 3 deliveries yesterday and holy cow were they huge. Travis and I decided to take a bit of an easy morning and work on a few things that needed to get done.  He did...

All of the projects I have photographed take too long to write a post about.  I have nursery tours to write about, but again no time.  Good news is that my husband is out of town tonight so I will have time to sit down and write out a bunch of posts.  Either that or sit around and eat ice cream and watch stupid documentaries.  We’ll see after my day today. I didn’t want to leave you without something to read.  Ok, that’s a...

Ever since I really had to seriously limit my dairy intake I’ve been on a quest to make the best tasting dairy free ice cream.  There is only so much sorbet someone can eat.  Considering my best friends are named Ben and Jerry this is a very tall order.  Last summer I nearly perfected chocolate ice cream.  This year I’m branching out. I found a thing on Pinterest for an orange push-up smoothie.  I’m not a huge smoothie...

For the most part I dislike the grocery store.  I would be quite happy to purchase all of my food items at a local market or green grocer.  Unfortunately there are a few things I still need to buy at the grocery.  I accept that other shoppers are quietly judging me while they look at the things I’ve put on the belt.  There is a conspicuous lack of produce and meat.  You’ll find me purchasing dairy goods (butter and milk*), the...

Well, we survived it.  Another Mother’s Day weekend has come and gone and I’m still alive.  Vertical even. In the nursery business Mother’s Day Saturday is the busiest day of the year.  Every person that works in a garden center in the Northwest goes home completely exhausted.  Last week I worked 9 hours Wednesday, 10 hours Thursday, 10 1/2 hours Friday and 9 hours Saturday.  They were non-stop days too.  We managed...

I am not exaggerating when I say I came home last night and fell into bed.  Ok, maybe I ate some dinner, had a glass of wine, watched the season finale of The Amazing Race and THEN fell into bed.  The point is I don’t know that I’ve ever worked so hard at a tiny little nursery in all my life. Every year Travis orders truck after truck of plant material the week before Mother’s Day and then takes the day off when it all...

I am shocked that I haven’t reviewed Vassey yet.  Next to my own nursery Vassey is my favorite.  I’ve shopped there as long as I’ve lived in the Tacoma area and usually never walk away empty handed.  Yesterday was no exception.  Of course I visited 4 nurseries yesterday and purchases something at all of them.  I need help. I wasn’t intending on reviewing Vassey today.  I had originally planned on a tutorial for a...