Green is our favorite color!  We’re back at the greenhouse and our production crew is busy planting, fertilizing and creating that perfect outside addition for your yard, patio and/or deck.  It’s a labor of love … just for you, our customers!

Mark your calendars for our opening day on March 31^st.  We’d like to invite you out to meet the new members to our plant family. 

Come and see us at the 2012 Garden Expo at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison.  Our large and colorful booth is located just inside the entrance right across from the Wisconsin Public Television booth. 

Stop by and grab one of our empty 2012 Expo Pot Swap 4 inch pots, bring it in to any of our locations and exchange it for an annual plant in the same size pot.  Stop by early as our supply is limited.

Our cyclamen have "Be Mine" written all over them
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Blooming plants in February?  You bet!  This year we’ll be bringing African violets, azaleas, cyclamen and kalanchoe.  Our lovely cyclamen plants, in a rainbow of colors, make a perfect valentine gift.  We’ll also have a variety of succulents, including aloe vera, along with rosemary and houseplants. 

Planning a vegetable, herb or flower garden this year?  We’ll have a large selection of seeds for you to choose from.

A schedule of our 2012 events will be available for you to take home and hang on your refrigerator.

Are you looking for a short term seasonal job?  Can you work flexible hours during the week, weekends and holidays?  Do you enjoy people, flowers and dirt?  If so, we may have the perfect job for you.  Job duties could consist of stocking and cleaning plants, sweeping floors, corralling run away shopping carts, cashier work, sales and customer service.  If interested please give us a call at 608-222-2269.  We have some openings available.  Plant knowledge, retail experience, sales and/or customer service skills are a plus.

Hey teenagers, if you are 16 years old or older this includes you, too!  We have several teenagers that have worked here for 3 or four seasons.

To give you more advance notice of our weekend events you will receive our weekly on-line newsletter on Tuesday rather than Thursday.

Do any of your school sports programs need new equipment or uniforms?  What about your school or church music programs?  Have you heard about America’s Best Flowers’ Fundraising Program?  We offer non-profit organizations the opportunity to keep 25% of the proceeds from the sale of our gift cards.  For example, if your organization sold $500 of our gift cards, which are available in any denomination, your organization would have raised $125.  It’s easy, it’s fun, it’s profitable, and we would be happy to come speak to your group and/or send you information.  If you are interested or have questions, please contact Shirley Cimino at abfscimino@yahoo.com.

It’s going to be a busy season for us at America’s Best Flowers.  Our Community Egg Hunt will be on April 7 this spring.  We’re going to have 10 container workshops this year along with several different types of gardening classes.   Our hope is that we have a little something for everyone.   We’ll have more details about our 2012 events in future newsletters.

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