The concept for the Enjoy Centre was born because we wanted and needed to make a change. We knew that if we wanted to continue as a viable business, we’d need to keep the customers we have and attract new ones. It’s a challenge facing garden centres in general. Fortunately identifying potential customers isn’t hard—Generation Y (those born between 1980 and 1995) is an obvious group that accounts for a fifth of our population and whose members aren’t necessarily gardeners. But how do we appeal to them? The answer we keep coming up with is to create a destination for …
Hits & Misses: Super flower-to-foliage ratio & inferior resistance
Question of the Week: How early in the spring can I rake and fertilize my lawn?
Science & Technology: Worm grunters
What bedding plants will be hot this year? Well, 2010 is shaping up to be the year to garden. My sister-in-law Valerie Hole, who orders all the bedding plants for our greenhouses, says we’ve got a total of…count them…100 new varieties! Now, I’m not suggesting you try to grow all 100, but at the very least, save some space to try a few. Some of them are nearly exclusive to us, as is …
first published February 18, 2010
It’s rather perverse that while Vancouver cries for snow, we’re crying about the amount we have to contend with. Granted our grumbling is about grooming roads rather than grooming ski runs, but both predicaments got me thinking about the value of snow. While we all know snow is a critical factor at Olympic venues, let’s not forget it’s also critical to gardening on the Prairies.
Unfortunately, most of us tend to endure snow rather than value it, but those humble snowflakes contribute a lot to our gardens. On the Prairies, the insulating capacity of snow is …
