Happy New Year

Betty and I want to thank you for your continued patronage of Floral and Hardy Gardens in 2008 and wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2009.

We are happy to announce the launch of our new website. This project has been long awaited and has had many false starts, but finally it is a reality. It has been a huge undertaking to enter all the data, but once in, maintenance will be much easier. Adding, deleting and modifying data doesn't require a page re-write as before, and the on-line shopping cart and wish list will hopefully make browsing and selecting easier. If you haven't yet visited it, you can find it at Floral and Hardy Gardens.

This has been an exciting winter everywhere, and we are no exception. This morning, however, dawned clear and cold and cloudless. It doesn't get much better. We had a couple more inches of light fluffy snow overnight and everything looks pristine again. The photo above was taken a few minutes ago from our "Tower cam" which is mounted halfway up the tower that we use for high speed Internet connectivity. The black things that you see at the top of the picture are what remain of 150' of shade house. They collapsed during our first big snow storm before I could get out there and shore them up. Another spring project.

Betty has been working around the clock putting the finishing touches on our 2009 catalogue and it will be going to the printer tomorrow or the next day and in the mail shortly after. When completed you can download your own copy if you like by selecting Printed Items under Categories on our website.

With these projects behind us, we will be off to Hawaii and January 8th for a 3 week stay on both the big island of Hawaii and the island of Kauai. Betty's sister and her husband will be joining us and we are SOOOO looking forward to it.

We will have our trusty little laptop with us to we will continue to answer emails, perform website maintenance and hopefully contribute to this badly ignored blog.