Monday – Friday
9am-7:30pm

Saturday – Sunday
9am-6pm

Nepeta ‘Walker’s Low’ Catmint
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The soft gray-green foliage of the Nepeta is highly aromatic.  The large lavender-blue blossoms occur heavily from late spring through midsummer and will reappear for a second heavy bloom in the autumn. Even when not in bloom it is a compact and very attractive plant.  To get a denser, bushier growth and quicker re-flowering, cut it back several times during its first bloom season.  This perennial is resistant to drought and is perfect for your sun garden.  In fact, the Nepeta was named 2007 Perennial Plant of the Year!

As always the featured perennial of the week is twenty percent off while supplies last!

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There is still time to register for our Flea Market on Saturday, July 13, from 9am-4pm.  To participate we require a non-refundable registration fee of $20.00.  After you arrive and have your space set up on that morning, America’s Best Flowers will present you with a $20.00 America’s Best Flowers gift card.  Each vendor will be allowed two parking spaces, which equals one booth, to display their wares.   

More vendor space is available for an additional $10.00 for each parking space.  Additional space must be requested at the time of the initial registration.  Each vendor is limited to only one $20.00 America’s Best Flowers gift card regardless of the number of parking spaces.

Rain or shine! Set up time is at 7am and the starting bell is at 9am.  This event will end at 4pm.  Vendors will need to bring their own furnishings, tables, awnings, chairs, etc.

For safety purposes all vendor vehicles must be parked in a separate area and will not be allowed in the market area until after 4pm. 

To register just stop by the greenhouse with a check or cash for the number of booths you would like to reserve.  In the memo section of your check please put ‘Flea Market”.  For clarity include a short note stating how many booths you are registering for, a telephone number and/or email address for contact purposes.

There are a few restrictions on what may be brought to the flea market at our greenhouse.  They are as follows:

• No firearms or ammunition,
• No live animals,
• No flowers and/or plants,
• No alcohol or tobacco is allowed on America’s Best Flowers’ property.

Remember, one man’s (or woman’s) junk is another man’s (or woman’s) treasure.

If you are interested in joining us contact Shirley at abfscimino@yahoo.com or call the greenhouse at 608-222-2269.

They will show up anywhere and everywhere.  Enough is enough!  Now is the time to take action. The following product is one that we recommend to combat this pest.

Earth-tone’s Bug and Slug Control is a wonderful product.  Simply scatter the bait granules on the soil around or near the plants to be protected. Bug and Slug is labeled for organic gardening.  This product kills earwigs, cutworm, sow bugs, pill bugs, slugs, and snails.

America’s Best Flowers wants to help you succeed in your gardening efforts. If you have gardening questions send an email to Al Lunde, at abflunde@yahoo.com. Al will get back to you promptly.

Lucy and friend chilling on the deck!
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Pictures and party antics from Lucy’s birthday party coming next week! 

Has it happened to you?  Out of the blue you remember something you either had forgotten to do or had forgotten to tell someone?  Well, this is one of those times!  I apologize for neglecting to mention, what I believe, is an amazing part of Lucy’s Story.  I still get goose-bumps thinking about it.

After about six months of being Lucy’s mom I got together with Marge, Lucy’s foster mom for coffee.  We had intermittently kept in contact via e-mail, but decided it would be nice to get caught up in person.  Our main topic of conversation was Lucy.  That came as a surprise, didn’t it!  I asked Marge to, once again, tell me Lucy’s story.   Marge went through it all as I had remembered it except for one pretty major detail. 

As Marge is telling me this very familiar story she mentions that Lucy was a stray found in Boscobel, WI.  I stopped Marge immediately and said that she had never mentioned that Lucy was found in Boscobel.  Marge tried to reassure me that yes, she had mentioned it.  My response was a very insistent no; I had never, ever been told that part of her story.  Marge asked me how I could be so sure.  After all, there was so much to Lucy’s story I had probably just forgotten it.  

With my eyes welling up, I very softly said, “Marge, I promise you, I never would have forgotten the fact that Lucy was found in Boscobel, because that is where I was born.”

Some things are just meant to be!

`til next time,
    ~ Shirley

If any of you other dog people want to share a dog story send it to abfscimino@yahoo.com.