Monthly Archives for November 2007
The shine starts to come off Starbucks
It would appear that some of the shine has come off Starbuck’s. Store visits are down 1% (this is the first time store visits have dropped). In addition the stock price is dropping. So what’s their solution? Start advertising, which … Continue reading
“Black Friday” wrap-up
I couldn’t resist posting once more on the “Black Friday” phenomenon. It turns out it wasn’t the slowest day of the year at the nursery like I predicted in my last post. Some people actually came in and Monica and … Continue reading
Go shopping today? Not me
On this so called “Black Friday†shopping day we will be open. I don’t know about other nurseries but this day is traditionally one of our slowest days of the year. It would appear that most people would rather shop … Continue reading
Save a tree from what?
Around this time every year someone comes out and says “save a tree†and buy an artificial Christmas tree. I guess these people imagine folks going through the woods chopping trees down wily nilly as Bambi and friends scurry away … Continue reading
Tough times for nurseries in Georgia
According to Open Register Pike Family Nurseries is filing for Bankruptcy Chapter 11. This is no small deal as it consists of 20 retail outlets scattered about Atlanta. Pikes is the largest independent retail chain in The United States with … Continue reading
The nurseryperson as entertainer
Hanna at This Garden is Illegal says “I know why gardening shows failâ€. She compares the popular cooking shows to the not as popular garden shows. This isn’t the first time this stuff has been talked about in the blogosphere. … Continue reading
Tin Punch Workshop
We had our first non-gardening oriented workshop on Saturday. Betsy Afdenkamp held the class and fun was had by all. I took the Tassimo Coffee Maker out to our new event tent so everyone could make coffee as they wanted. … Continue reading
Living the good life, at the garden center!
Today is our Tin Punch Workshop with Betsy Aufdenkamp and Monica. Its our first workshop in out new events tent. While Tin Punch really has nothing to do with gardening, so what. People are signed up, coffee and snacks will … Continue reading
Need a garden speaker, who you going to call?
Angela had asked how the talk at The Sacramento Organic Club went. When I left I had told Monica that if just two people came to the nursery from the talk it would be a success. Yesterday the second person … Continue reading
The City by the bay
Monica and I went down to San Francisco on Monday. I grew up here, so we like to check out the places that get missed by most tourists. This is a shot of a small garden tucked into a alley … Continue reading
