RE: another MG sale

So how did it all go? Figure you probably heard some feedback on the garden
walk... and hopefully don't have any plants to count :)

Donna

> Well, our MGs are having our first garden walk of the season.  15 display
> gardens, each with MGs in attendance to answer questions, demonstrate
> things, offer refreshments.  We also have live music and a few seminars.
> Our Birds Bees and Butterflies garden has  got a terrific facelift from a
> new intern who has worked wonders with it.  She even brought her dad in to
> help her lay a stone path.  He was still there working on it when I left
> last night after 7.  We also have a new rockgarden to show off, and the
> roof
> garden is finally completed.
> 
> And we are having our second plant sale.  The June sale has usually been
> our
> least productive - either because we don't have as much merchandise or we
> have fewer shoppers because they shopped us in May and are spending June
> touring the gardens.  I don't  know for sure.  But we are ready for all
> comers and have lots of plants.  I worked 6 hrs in the nursery on Sunday
> and
> every night after work til 9. Yesterday I spent 12 hrs on setting up and
> tidying up - last minute weeding and mulching.  I made lots of new signs.
> We are introducing a new Daylily, 'Lana's First Love', our exclusive.  I
> also made up a display and materials for our Advance Orders Bulb Sale.
> 
> Unfortunately, I work Saturdays, so I went over this morning before work
> and
> finished setting up signs and helping the others tag our 689 Special
> Selections pots (the plants we grow in the nursery)  The other half of the
> sale plants dug from the display gardens or from MG's own gardens, or seed
> grown plants from MGs, and other odds and ends)   looks great, too, with
> improvements to layout.  I'll work in a long lunch hour today and be there
> when the sale opens.  After work, (I get off at 6) everyone will be gone
> but
> I'll go over and pick up all my tables, carts, and materials.  On Sunday
> I'll do a new inventory.  I sure hope there's not much to count.
> 
> Kitty

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