Fall is upon us

Many of you have made it out several times this summer and have watched Uncle Daniel's Pumpkin Patch grow, as the plants begin to grow they engulf the pumpkin patch. It begins to be hard to see exactly what the bounty will be as the plants soar to over three feet tall. This picture was taken in early summer before they reached there tallest point.



As our evening temperatures Have cooled the vines have began to die back revealing the bounty. The Pumpkins continue to turn orange and the gourds and turnips continue to grow.



We began decorating this week and have completed a flower bed between the pumpkin patch and parking area.

The Pumpkin patch along with Finch Family Water Garden will be open Friday and Saturdays 10am-6pm and Sundays 10am-5pm Through October. We hope to see you soon.

This word just in.....Uncle Daniel tells me you may want to visit on Saturdays and Sundays.....But I am still in the dark this year as to what he is planning, he will be here those days. I do know that part of the decore has changed.

We Survived!

We survived the wedding, but as the best man and general wedding planner, LOL, I didn't get any pictures and will have to rely on people to e-mail them to me. Most everything was cleaned up yesterday, and I believe that our focus for this weekend is preparing to reline the nusery pond (amongst a few other things we want to get done for the nursery and ourselves.

Preparing for a wedding.

Yet again Finch Family Water Garden will be hosting another wedding in September. We have been busy grooming the yard, and the display pond which will be the backdrop for the ceremony. The lawn is greening up nicely and the majority of the bark is in place in the yard.

Soon we hope to turn our focus to relining the pond in the nursery yard and be able to spend some time tidying it, we began weeding around it this weekend as after the rains the weeds ran amuck. We had almost finished the weeding before it rained, but I didn't get it sprayed.

I will try to get pictures this week and put them up this coming weekend, but if you are close enough you might drop in and see for yourself what is happening

Google Maps.

Durning the season I generally run an ad with a discount on Google Maps. If you haven't already found it, just search google maps for Finch Family Water Garden and check out the details on it.

Change of Hours.

In light of the tough Economic Climate we are all experiencing this year I am reducing the hours Finch Family Water Garden will be open. We will be open Friday and Saturdays 10 am-6 pm, and Sundays 10 am-5 pm August-October. For those of you those hours don't work for I will do my best to accomodate you with Special appointments on Wenesday and Thursday afternoons, Please call and leave a message at the nursery at 541-926-9737 to schedule an appointment.

I am sorry for any inconvience this may cause.

James

Wonderful Water Lilies

I came home yesterday to a number of blooms on the water lilies in the display pond. One of my favorites, Colorado, is shown here--it is a salmon color.

I went through and fertilized all of the plants in the pond this weekend. Some plants like Water lilies and Lotus want to be fertilized monthly during their growing season. The reason for this is they expend a great deal of energy opening and closing their flowers and putting up new leaves. Their flowers last about three days and leaves about three weeks, but they are constantly putting up more. When I fertilize I pinch off all the old growth so the debri isn't breaking down in the pond.

In addition to the Colorado we cary 23 other hardy Water Lilies at Finch Family Water Garden.

A GARDENERS LIFE

"The gardener is a solitary figure, who, like the book reader, withdraws from the real world into one of his own creation."
~Witold Rybczynski
Waiting For The Weekend