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Family Flowers Store and Mini Farm Hours:
Monday - Friday 9am-5:30pm
Saturday 9am-5pm
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Sales + Specials
TREE CLEAROUT - $20!
All summer patio pots, hanging baskets, annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs, grasses, and roses are on BUY ONE GET ONE FREE! Pick out whatever you like and mix+match for another item for FREE! It's that simple! (the item of equal or lesser value is free). While supplies last.
A great price to fill in spots here and there!
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Upcoming Events
BUY 1 GET 1 FREE Sale
on while supplies last.
Mid August - Look for the Straw Castle and Garden Mums 
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Out + About in Elgin County
(click on the underlined text to read more)
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Greetings!
Can you believe we are into the 30th week of the year already! By next week we will be into August! Backyard BBQ's and summer vacations are in full swing.
Hopefully you survived last week's heat wave...
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| Another Way to Keep Cool: |
Planting Poinsettias! Yes, you read that right - last
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week 4,700 of the 12,000 poinsettia cuttings were planted. Poinsettias are grown and sold for the Holiday season, so these beauties will continue to grow on for the next three months or so and then join you in your homes for wonderful Christmas
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décor! Even rattling off some of the names should cool you down: Christmas Beauty, Ice Crystal, Winter Sun White, Christmas Day... The next batch of cuttings will be planted Mid August.
Click here for updated pictures of the poinsettia crop so far.
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Look what else is 'Growing On':
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Garden Gabbing
The straw bales are stacked and ready to be  transformed into a gigantic castle, which means the next season is around the corner. If you missed the process of the Fall Hardy Garden Mum planting, click here .
But who wants to rush Summer?
The BUY ONE GET ONE FREE
sale continues. And what better price than FREE to fill in spots here and there at home. There is also lots of cottage and summer décor available.
I stumbled across a really neat website while looking for fun things to do in the summer: Ontario's Summer Fun Guide - check it out.
And don't forget to take the kids for a visit to the Family Flowers Mini Farm and feed the animals too!
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Family Flowers Feature
Purple Fountain Grass
Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum'
An extremely showy and popular selection of Fountain Grass, seen frequently as a focal point in containers and annual plantings. Plants form an upright clump of deep burgundy-purple leaves, bearing arching bottlebrush flowers that change from red to tan. Although not winter hardy in most regions, this may be treated as an annual or wintered indoors. Clumps are easily divided in early spring, still getting large and flowering the same year. Widely used in municipal plantings.
Growing Conditions:
- Full sun
- Normal, Sandy or Clay soil
- Keep soil moderate to moist with water
- Easy to care for
Appearance + Characteristics:
- Red/brown plumes in late summer, early fall
- Good for border, containers, cut or dried flowers, mass plantings or specimen
- Deer resistant
- Height = 90-120cm (35-47")
- Spread = 60-90cm (23-35")
- Medium growing rate
Available now and in the Fall as a
Fall Feature Plantable
exclusively at Family Flowers for $5.99
in a large one gallon pot.
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| May your BBQ's be bountiful and your vacations tremendous! Enjoy your summer and look ahead to a wonderful and flower filled Fall :-)
Sincerely,
Jacklyn Versnick
Retail Manager
Family Flowers
PS - Thank you for your understanding last week while Family Flowers had shortened retail hours due to the heat. Everything is back to normal and in full function at the greenhouses, and no one melted... so we look forward to seeing you soon!
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