Face Lift

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Every year, when we tell people that we still work, even through the winter months, they invariably ask us, “what do you do during the winter?” We find plenty of ways to keep busy, but one of our main goals during the off season is to do what we can to make our facilities better. This winter, we’ve been giving our store a face lift and preparing a new fairy garden display area. Primarily, that means a lot of painting.

We’re giving the floor a more subdued slate gray covering that coordinates better with the rest of the decor. Our red floor was getting a little tired and needed an overhaul. We’ve also repainted the bathroom, added a purple accent wall to our fairy garden display area and updated some of our wooden trim with a fresh white color. The overall effect is to make the story feel more open and airy, and the space is much brighter and more inviting now.

As you can see, this is not a task for the faint of heart. We’ve had to get creative with our storage options while painting because of our high inventory volume–and new things are coming in all the time. It feels an awful lot like a giant jigsaw puzzle.

Even Lily has volunteered to help–she provides great moral support and reminds us every once in a while that we need to take a break so we can play ball with her.

We’re excited to see the finished product and look forward to being able to show off our renovated store this spring!

Workshops!

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It’s that time of year again, and we’ve begun to schedule our various workshops here at Moraine Gardens. We will be giving our fairy/miniature gardening and container gardening workshops again this year, and we are contemplating adding one or two new workshops–but more on that later.

We’re excited about our workshops this spring and are confident that we’ll be able to offer a great workshop experience, since we’ve got a whole year’s experience under our belts this time around. The workshops with be structured much the same way as last year, but we’ve got new plants and a plethora of new houses and accessories that we know you’ll fall in love with.

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This year, we’re kicking off our workshop season with our “Spring Fever” workshop, a celebration of the first day of spring! This will be a fairy/miniature gardening workshop, and we can’t think of a better way to start out spring than feeling the satisfaction of having completed a whole garden before the last frost.

Another highlight of our container gardening season is our Earth Day workshop. In this workshop, you’ll receive some tips on how to make your container gardening practices more eco-friendly as well as general instruction on how to achieve stunning container garden results.

Here are our fairy/miniature workshop dates:

“First Day of Spring!” Fairy/Miniature Workshop ~ Friday, March 20th – 1pm-3pm

Fairy/Miniature Workshop 2 ~ Saturday, March 28th – 1pm-3pm

Fairy/Miniature Workshop 3 ~ Tuesday, March 31st – 10am-noon

Fairy/Miniature Workshop 4 ~ Thursday, April 9th – 10am-noon

and our container gardening workshop dates:

Container Gardening 1 ~ Thursday, April 16th – 1pm-3pm

Container Gardening 2 ~ Saturday, April 18th – 10am-noon

Earth Day Workshop ~ Wednesday, April 22nd – 10am-noon

Container Gardening 4 ~ Friday, April 24th – 5pm-7pm

You can find more detailed information on our workshops here and specifics for the fairy/miniature workshops here and container gardening workshops here.

We look forward to seeing you and sharing the joys of container gardening with you this spring!