First Week...well kinda...
April 22-30
Hours Worked Cumulative: 29
Highlights: Product meeting on Wednesday evening for Kellogg products and Master Nursery, Planted some decorative watering cans with Wave Petunias, Tomatoes in Earth Box experiment made it through the night, and Travelocity gnomes are the new thing at the register.
So this week started out with off and on rain showers making customers few and far between. The advantage of this is the ability to get projects done without many interruptions, but the downside is that the projects get done quickly and leaves us all looking for something to do. Projects that I did this week include: watering perennials, annuals, vegetables, and herbs, unloading a truckload of trees and shrubs with the guys, helping to put together an Earth Box and planting tomatoes in it so that we can show customers how well they work, planting decorative watering cans with newly received wave petunias, putting out loads of herbs and ground-covers out onto the tables, siphoning rose food into the water for the roses, covering tomatoes with a blanket for cold nights, consolidating and organizing plants, and whatever else came my way.
Here are some tidbits of information that I gleaned this week from working,
-Digitalis is the common name for Foxglove, it is also used as a descriptive latin word for plants with long spear shaped leaves.
- There are tons and tons and tons of varieties of Penstemon... and they all look really different too.
- Ranunculus is a ridiculous name for such a pretty little annual. I found out that they don't bloom for very long but their blooms are gorgeous.
- Wildflower seed mixes are usually a variety of both annuals and perennials.
Hours Worked Cumulative: 29
Highlights: Product meeting on Wednesday evening for Kellogg products and Master Nursery, Planted some decorative watering cans with Wave Petunias, Tomatoes in Earth Box experiment made it through the night, and Travelocity gnomes are the new thing at the register.
So this week started out with off and on rain showers making customers few and far between. The advantage of this is the ability to get projects done without many interruptions, but the downside is that the projects get done quickly and leaves us all looking for something to do. Projects that I did this week include: watering perennials, annuals, vegetables, and herbs, unloading a truckload of trees and shrubs with the guys, helping to put together an Earth Box and planting tomatoes in it so that we can show customers how well they work, planting decorative watering cans with newly received wave petunias, putting out loads of herbs and ground-covers out onto the tables, siphoning rose food into the water for the roses, covering tomatoes with a blanket for cold nights, consolidating and organizing plants, and whatever else came my way.
Here are some tidbits of information that I gleaned this week from working,
-Digitalis is the common name for Foxglove, it is also used as a descriptive latin word for plants with long spear shaped leaves.
- There are tons and tons and tons of varieties of Penstemon... and they all look really different too.
- Ranunculus is a ridiculous name for such a pretty little annual. I found out that they don't bloom for very long but their blooms are gorgeous.
- Wildflower seed mixes are usually a variety of both annuals and perennials.
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