Chris Hardison

It’s in the mail. No, not the check, but the 2004 Plant Delights Nursery catalog. Some folks have already received their copy and you should have yours soon…at least if you have ordered in the last two years…and your post office delivery person isn’t a gardener. Until your paper copy arrives, you can enjoy the […]

As shipping for the year winds down, work on the 2004 spring catalog winds up. For nearly a month, we have been locked in our offices to focus on putting together the new catalog. I am getting a bit tired of pizza slices slid under the door, but we have found that such confinement increases

September was quite a month as Hurricane Isabel arrived without an appointment the day prior to our final open weekend for the season. While we only got 1.5″ of rain and 60 mph winds, the storm kept many of our regular customers from attending. Our thoughts and prayers are with those in Eastern NC and

July is gone, but the summer rains are still around. We’ve still got new springs popping up everywhere around the nursery…usually in places where they aren’t welcomed. With all the rain, growth of plants (and weeds) has been exceptional this season and we hope that has been the same for most of you…minus the weeds.

June is always a tough month in the nursery business as much more money flows out than in. At least with our summer rains, this June was not a disaster like last year. Normally, by June 1, we can ship orders as they arrive, but this year is the exception. As June drew to a

Well, what a month! After a steady early spring of orders, May seemed like an avalanche. Perhaps it was the warm weather or soaking rains or maybe even the end of the Iraqi conflict, but everyone got busy gardening all at once. Open house was huge this year when some good publicity, especially an unusually

As Tax month comes to a close, orders have been picking up steadily as the weather improves. The last few weeks of April and first couple of week in May are our busiest months of the year. Please be patient, as it may take us a couple of weeks to process and ship orders that

Spring is here! After a wet and cold winter, spring has finally arrived at Plant Delights. Because of the prolonged cold period, we seem to have escaped those nasty late spring frosts that often plague us. Our typical last frost date is April 10, but it looks like we are not going to freeze after

Spring is finally on the horizon as we turn the page on February. If you are like us, the warm weather of spring cannot arrive soon enough. Between the uncertainties of war and the uncertainties of the weather, we need some resolution…to something. The rising fuel prices of the last few months are poised to