What a difference a week makes! Last week snow, this week we have had shipments of beautiful new trees, shrubs and flowers! May 1st hit us yesterday and the store saw 57 new employees hit the ground running. Bright new orange shirts, black caps, gloves and name tags for everyone! It is incredible to see the transformation. Bob was busy digging new holes for our caliper trees - it is fabulous to see all the big trees come in and fill up the back forty. All of the landscape supplies are in and customers are getting a jump on the season. If there is an economic downturn, we certainly aren't seeing it in the garden centre business. Geoff (operation manager) is truly grace under pressure as he tries to get 57 new people trained and working to get the entire lot in shape for the season. It's like ready, set, uh-oh, stop cause the snow is coming...and then its ready, set, stop again cause more snow is coming...and now finally...GO and GO HARD! I said it before, once it hits, its 24/7 for the next 8 weeks, and then maybe one day off! Its what we do...thrive in extreme chaos.
Currently, we are also running classes all day today on Tubby Tomatoes and Potato Towers with Barry Erskine. Not sure we needed the added pressure, but we are all living with it and using Meryl's office as the lunchroom this weekend - good times!
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