...the season that gardeners say goodnight to their yards and garden beds, tucking them in for the winter, then turn their attention indoors with houseplants and overwintering cuttings, bulbs, seeds, etc. It's also the season to dress up your home for festive celebrations! At Rekker's we embrace this time of change, giving you the tools and help needed to get your gardens through the winter, and stocking up on everything you need to create a festive holiday look!
What's In? Our giftware section is all dressed up with many gorgeous Christmas decor items - see our facebook page for photos of a sampling of it! Our famous pointsettias are arriving daily, turning the store into a sea of red (and white and pink and striped and...). Plus there's Christmas cactus, mixed planters and other holiday favourites too.
Also in store are Christmas greenery, including wreaths, garlands, and branches of pine, spruce, fir, cedar, cypress, holly, dogwood, berries (and many, many more!) to create gorgeous arrangements to grace your front entry. We are offering workshops in November where our talented designers will guide your through the process of crafting your own, or you can take home a pre-made insert to drop into an urn or pot for instant impact!
And of course we still stock our usual excellent selection of houseplants and plant care products to help you garden inside for the winter months.
Join the Party! Our season traditionally kicks off with our annual Poinsettia Festival & Open House - this year on Saturday, Nov. 19th. This event gives you the opportunity to take in the spectacle of thousands and thousands of poinsettias being grown in our production greenhouse with guided tours at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm (or you can stroll around on your own whenever). It also includes refreshments, special one-day-only deals and charitable events (bake sale, food drive and gently-used coat collection) benefitting our local food bank. All we need to add is our favourite friends and neighbours from all over Clarington and beyond (that's you!)to share it with and it should prove to be a pretty awesome day.
Our Gift to You Don't forget we are open right up until December 24th to help you with your Christmas shopping. We have lots of great gifts for gardeners like gorgeous ceramic pots, statuary, etc., as well as gift cards in any amount. Poinsettias can be custom-dressed to make a stunning hostess gift or choose a lush mixed planter with a holiday theme. And our Christmas decor items make great teacher gifts. We are even open late on Fridays, until 7:00 pm, to give you a little extra time to get things done!
Looking Ahead... We will be closed January and February to give our staff time to regroup, retrain, and restock our store with many fabulous things when we open again in March. We are very excited to be going green with a new plastic pot recycling program next year (more details posted soon). And we look forward to proving to you why Clarington This Week readers have once again voted us their #1 Garden Centre! |
