Continued - Christmas 2012 at Plants For All

Another day and lots more stuff. How is your preparation for the Christmas season coming along? You still have lots of time - don't you?
Before getting on with it, I was advised of a couple of points to make about the last post -

Anthurium - Christmas Plant?

1. when talking about Poinsettias, I mentioned a few other plants that want to be considered 'Christmas plants'.  I should have added the Anthurium. With their blazing red flowers, they can attract the eye of the Christmas colour conscious consumer. We have Anthuriums in stock in 4" and 6" pot sizes.
2. Under One of Our Favourites section, I was telling you that our Atlantean products, Specialty Fertilizer Concentrate is mixed at the rate of 7 drops per litre of water. I should have mentioned that to make measuring easier and messless (I think I just created a new word) we include a special flip-top cap that can dispense the concentrate one drop at a time. 

Rosemary Cone form - 6" pot

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is another plant that gains popularity at this time of year. It is quite simply my most favourite herb. Besides its many culinary, medicinal and cosmetic uses, Rosemary is a symbol of friendship, loyalty and remembrance. A sprig of Rosemary is often carried by mourners at funerals and the bride at her wedding. Greek scholars wore garlands or sprigs of Rosemary when sitting their exams to improve their memory and concentration.

Rosemary 4" pot

     When my grandchildren were younger, I would add ground dried Rosemary leaves to scrambled eggs to offer them green eggs (refer to Dr.Seuss - Green Eggs and Ham); both delicious and fun.
     Rosemary are very hardy to grow indoors year round or to plant outside in the Spring. It will not tolerate our cold. Treat it to bright light, warm temperatures and not too wet.  
    Rosemary is only available at certain times of the year and we have it now in the 2 sizes pictured here at $4 for the 4" pot and $35 for the big Cone form. Come in for a smell - excellent.

Plants For All retail store at 

  66 Dawson Road in Guelph will now be open Saturdays until Christmas from 11am to 3 pm. 

Exclusive Save 15% Blog Offer - Plants For All is a small independent plant shop and we would like a chance at your tropical plant-buying business. From now through to Christmas, I'll be updating this blog frequently to discuss Christmas plant topics and feature some of our products. When you come into our store, mention this exclusive blog offer and receive 15% off of your entire purchase - now through to Christmas.  We would love to see you.

Spring Leafshine

  One of Our Favourites - whether it's plants going into our office maintenance accounts or a plant going home with you from our retail store, we want that plant to shine. We sell a few different kinds of leafshine; but our favourite to use is Spring Leafshine. We sell one size - the big 600ml aerosol spray can. The propellant is Ozone Safe. Just spray your foliage plants lightly and that's it. No need to wipe off. I can clean a 6' ficus benjamina in less than a minute. Clean the plants in your home now for just $17.25 per can.

Come in for a demonstration and pick up a can of Spring Leafshine. 

One Last Thing - the 2013 Goldbook telephone directory was distributed today. Check out our ad under "Plants-Indoor-Retail & Maintenance" , we're the only ones listed. It is on page 150. The ad includes a handy QR code that you can scan with your smart phone to get quick contact information about Plants For All. You can also jump to the ad on our Goldbook web page here. Please let me know what you think of this QR code feature. Thanks.

Until next time, keep the Christmas Spirit.

Brian Osmond