America’s Best Flowers will be closing for the season this Sunday, October 31.  We will be saying tearful, but temporary, ‘good-byes’ this week as you come out and pick up those end-of-the-season bulbs, plants and supplies.  If you find yourself needing anything in the weeks to come, we always have soils, mulches, straw, and other gardening supplies on hand, so give us a call at 222-2269 to arrange a time to stop out.  We will be very glad to help you.

To keep in touch, we will send newsletters on a monthly basis throughout the winter, and will return to a weekly format in the spring.  Keep us in mind for your Christmas gift card needs.  Let us take the hassle out of Christmas shopping.  Just place your order over the phone and we will mail the cards wherever you wish. A gift card from America’s Best not only shows you care, but it gives the recipient a promise that spring will come again.

Herbs, herbs and more herbs.  We will be a MUCH bigger herb grower in 2011, offering more than 100 different varieties, carefully chosen to perform well in this area.  We’ve listened to your requests for naturally grown plants, so next year our herbs and vegetables will be grown in a custom soil mix and fed with natural fish emulsion. So now, besides growing ‘America’s Best Flowers’ we will also be growing ‘America’s Best Herbs and Vegetables’.  How cool is that!?

America’s Best Flowers offers FREE tours and field trips for groups of any kind, including pre-school and elementary classes up to 2^nd grade, horticultural students, garden clubs, senior groups, assisted living groups, and more.  You can custom plan your event with scavenger hunts, growing seeds without soil, making seed balls, pizza garden ideas, and so much more!

For more information call us at 222-2269.  If we are away from the phone, please leave a message and we will get back to you as soon as possible.  Or send an email to ed@americasbestflowers.com.  We look forward to helping you plan your best event ever.

We are busy planning for the 2011 season and are so excited about the many events, classes and workshops that we’ve already scheduled.  If you’re organized enough to have a 2011 calendar started, please mark April 2 for our veggie and fruit gardening class.  Learn how to start your own seeds, as well as the ‘what, when, where, and why’ to plant.  The class will be at 10 AM and immediately after, you can purchase seeds and plant them up right here in the greenhouse. We’ll provide FREE SOIL AND CLEAN UP THE MESS.  What a way to kick off your gardening season after a long Wisconsin winter.

In April we will host our annual Community Egg Hunt and Earth/Arbor Day celebrations.  As spring progresses, we’ll have numerous herbal classes, container workshops, demonstrations and much, much more to help you gear up for gardening.  Watch for additions to the schedule as spring gets closer, by checking our website.

Your patronage and support have made it possible for us to be able to have so many free classes and educational opportunities. We are always open to ideas, so feel free to contact us with them at ed@americasbestflowers.com

Fall color takes on new meaning with these amazing shots.  Be sure to use your mouse to move the screen around for the full effect.

In celebration of Halloween Jesse has something special planned for each day this week.  Please visit often.