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Well 2020 sure hasn’t been like a year any of us have ever endured before; it’s not quite over yet, so please breathe, we can make it!. For our small nursery, it has been a good season, and we are very grateful and feel blessed for all of you who have supported us. Thanks…
We have created a link to an order sheet on Google docs so that everyone with a computer can access it. Please allow up to 20 seconds for it to load properly, lot’s of traffic out there! MGD online order sheet Here is a PDF you can open and print and either call in an…
It seems as though our world is changing hourly these days. At Madras Garden Depot we hope to be able to help with one of the more stable activities in our world – gardening! For our customer and employee safety, we are taking extra precautions, including social distancing and surface and hand sanitation. We know…
One more week…..We wanted to share an update about our opening day for this spring 2019. If you live in the area, you know we still have mucho “frozen” snow to contend with. We still can’t access 75% of our perennial and shrub storage areas – maybe we can in about 3-4 more days.…
Right now as I write this post, winter’s white glove is holding firm, very firm on Central Oregon! Exactly 2 years ago we also had quite a late “big” snow event, so this is not unusual to be happening here, and I know were all hoping it will nudge the moisture content upwards so it…
Your’e Invited to: A Fall Frolic ~ Pre-Holiday Open House & Fruit & Wine Tasting Party! Let’s embrace the Fall and get ready for the Holiday’s at a ‘Fall Frolic’ on Saturday, November 11th from 1 to 4:30 pm at the Madras Garden Depot. We are so excited to be partnering with our local Grocery…
“Summer fades and passes and October comes. We’ll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.“ – Thomas Wolfe, ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’, 1947 Hmmmm…wondering why you haven’t heard from us in a bit? Well, we haven’t closed, or moved or taken…
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” Lewis Grizzard Being a good gardener, but a wretched typist, I make doubly sure that each of my cold fingers carefully touches my keyboard so I don’t have to go back and make (yet another) correction…yes, it’s very, very cold out, but…
….And the good news is that we had a very gradual fall with temperatures that gently eased our plants into a nice dormant state. Hopefully, if you noticed snow dumping off of roofs and piling up on perennials, vines or shrubs, that you attended to them before too much damage ensued. If not, be aware…
This Friday, August 5th from 6 – 8 pm there will be a free ‘Twilight Open Garden’ at the Moran residence in Yarrow, co-sponsored by the Madras Garden Depot & the Madras Garden Club. This garden is about 3 years old and was intentionally designed to display very hardy, but beautiful native and adapted ornamental plants that…