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Wednesday, November 26
Tuesday, November 18
Last Chance Bulb Bargains Now
Have you taken a look at our new Bulb Department? (See click in upper right hand corner, homepage.) This is the first fall we've ever offered bulbs, and it's been a big success. We've always thought there was a natural affinity between wildflower seeds and bulbs, since we've learned many of our members plant both at the same time.
If figures. When you clear the ground to scatter seed, it's no more work to pop in bulbs. Especially daffodils, or lilies that naturalize well. Then in spring, they're up and in bloom before any of your wildflowers. It extends your season of color!
The big news, though, is that just last week, we added seven full pages of End of Season bargains in the Bulb Dept. You'll find 25% savings on all kinds of spectacular tulips, daffodils, and more. So enjoy the savings while the supply lasts.
If figures. When you clear the ground to scatter seed, it's no more work to pop in bulbs. Especially daffodils, or lilies that naturalize well. Then in spring, they're up and in bloom before any of your wildflowers. It extends your season of color!
The big news, though, is that just last week, we added seven full pages of End of Season bargains in the Bulb Dept. You'll find 25% savings on all kinds of spectacular tulips, daffodils, and more. So enjoy the savings while the supply lasts.
Thursday, November 13
Welcome to American Meadows' first "Blog"
For a long time, we've wanted a way to communicate with our members through the website, and suddenly, here it is.
This is what is called a "weblog", blog for short. We're able to put up various news items, new products, and any other information we'd like our visitors to have in real time.
Our hope here is to use this blog, and perhaps others, to begin to add various things to our website to support the community formed by our members. Soon, you'll be seeing photos and information about other members' meadows. And once the New Year arrives, we're going to have a "Wildflower Watch" right here.
As the new year dawns, of course, our native plants begin another season of bloom. The wildflowers really begin in the southwestern deserts in February, then we see the massive bloom along the Pacific coast, and then the "wildflower wave" rolls across the continent from west to east, then south to north...until by June the whole continent is in bloom.
As this happens each year, various regions operate "hotlines" and put out current information. We plan to offer all that here. For example, when the famous bluebonnet bloom begins in Texas, there are very organized websites and other information sources that put out daily detail about the bloom. We'll let you know how you can access this kind of detail, region by region.
So I hope you enjoy our "blog". It's a work in progress, and if you have some suggestions on what you'd like to see here, just let me know by email.
Best wishes, Ray Allen, Owner, AmericanMeadows.com
This is what is called a "weblog", blog for short. We're able to put up various news items, new products, and any other information we'd like our visitors to have in real time.
Our hope here is to use this blog, and perhaps others, to begin to add various things to our website to support the community formed by our members. Soon, you'll be seeing photos and information about other members' meadows. And once the New Year arrives, we're going to have a "Wildflower Watch" right here.
As the new year dawns, of course, our native plants begin another season of bloom. The wildflowers really begin in the southwestern deserts in February, then we see the massive bloom along the Pacific coast, and then the "wildflower wave" rolls across the continent from west to east, then south to north...until by June the whole continent is in bloom.
As this happens each year, various regions operate "hotlines" and put out current information. We plan to offer all that here. For example, when the famous bluebonnet bloom begins in Texas, there are very organized websites and other information sources that put out daily detail about the bloom. We'll let you know how you can access this kind of detail, region by region.
So I hope you enjoy our "blog". It's a work in progress, and if you have some suggestions on what you'd like to see here, just let me know by email.
Best wishes, Ray Allen, Owner, AmericanMeadows.com
Free $200 Holiday Drawing! Enter often!
Today we launched a great new FREE DRAWING for a $200 Gift Basket of seed. All you have to do to enter the drawing is order...any order anytime. And you're entered each time you order between now and the drawing, which will take place at our offices in Vermont on December 20th. We'll notify the whole membership list by email, and get the basket to the lucky winner by Christmas. So enter often, and good luck.
