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| Perhaps a 'stag' reclining in the flowers will keep other stags away! PHOTO COURTESY PLANT PUBLICITY HOLLAND |
Located on the southern border of interior British Columbia, Don and Anna’s customers come from a 160-kilometre radius and all of them have to co-exist with Bambi and her greatly extended family. Add into the mix that this is Zone 3 gardening, and it’s immediately apparent that we’re talking about a garden centre dedicated to meeting the very specific needs of their customers.
Displays at Don and Anna’s are in alphabetical (Latin) order, and this one in particular uses Zone 3, deer-resistant perennials from A to E, all sold in one-gallon pots for only $7.99.
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| An ode to Deer Resistant plants! Interesting, whimsical statuary, a
lovely assortment of plant material and hard to miss signage that tells
all. PHOTO COURTESY PLANT PUBLICITY HOLLAND |
“If you enjoy your wildlife friends,” Anna Bartlett, co-owner of the garden centre says, “the three varieties of Echinacea in the display, ‘Bright Star’, White Swan’ and ‘Harvest Moon’ are a must-have. Not only are they deer-resistant and drought-tolerant, they bring butterflies to the garden and their seed heads feed birds throughout the winter.
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| A close-up of the signage and its two most important points: Deer
Resistant and Dry Soil Tolerant. A closer look tells you the height and
breadth of the plant, its sun requirements and that, yes, it will
survive winters of minus 40˚C. PHOTO COURTESY PLANT PUBLICITY HOLLAND |
Don and Anna’s Greenhouses, of Keremoes, British Columbia, is one of the Top Ten winners of the 2007 Perennials Marketing Contest, co-sponsored by Plant Publicity Holland and the Perennial Plant Association.
Reprinted with permission from the August 2008 website edition of Perennial & Nurserynews.com.
