A Personal Note

I stand upon my desk to remind myself
that we must constantly look at things
in a different way

--John Keating, Dead Poets Society

Many of you, my beloved customers and friends often ask about my mother, and I thank you for that, she and I have always had a very strong relationship. Tuesday morning I received a call telling me that the doctors have concurred it is time time to start hospice. Obviously my mind is reeling in many directions.

She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1999 just two years after I opened the nursery to the public. I kept her here at the place for 6 years, and many of you were blessed with meeting her. She now resides in Lydia's House, the Alzheimer's unit at the Mennonite Village. She has received wonderful care, and we will continue to try our best to make the remainder of her life as comfortable as possible.

My hope is to run the nursery as usual, we have began planting and preparing for the upcoming season, but please be understanding if there are unforeseen delays, lat openings, or short closures this year. If this should happen I apologize in advance.

I am currently hoping to open the weekend following Easter.

Thank You for your support.

Love and Light to All,

James

This weekend was a blessing, bright sunshine and warmer weather, not only helps the plants to grow, but brightens my spirits.

I got lots of quality time at the nursery, separating plants and planting them. I managed to get three more ponds cleaned, and things are beginning to look a little more inviting out there after a dark winter.

The plants emerging from their winter dormancy of course is dependent on the temperatures, and many of them are still lying dormant as our nights are still rather cool keeping the water temperature of the ponds low.

I cleaned the bog pond on the large display pond to ready it to receive plants. I started the water flow to it and started the skimmer back up for the spring. I noticed I had string algae forming in the creek so I turned the system off and applied Green Clean, I want to stay ahead of the game on that and hopefully have it taken care of before the warmer weather arrives.

A little mowing time was a must as the grass was looking quite ragged. I didn't manage to get everything mowed, as the nursery was my first focus for the weekend. But all in all things are beginning to look a lot better.

As the days grow longer and the weather warms I find it harder and harder to sit myself down to write on the blog, but I will do the best I can to keep you informed of the progress.