As the public continues their social distancing measures amid COVID-19 recommendations, independent garden centres have made the difficult decision to close their retail fronts to visitors. But for some, this experience has only spurred their businesses forward in new directions. For Heeman’s, this...
Garden centres – and their suppliers – are doing stiff business this year. From tropicals to edible ornaments, here's what's been selling exceptionally well. September 1, 2020 By Treena Hein COVID-19 has affected, and continues to affect, many aspects of life this year, but one of the...
Our sales growth over the past few years has been phenomenal. It is hard to say exactly what has been due to Suzanne’s involvement and all the positive changes we have made (because of how the COVID pandemic positively impacted garden centre sales generally). But what is interesting is th...
Nurseries and garden centres across Vancouver Island are gearing up for a busy spring season. Just 20 minutes after opening last Friday morning, Elk Lake Garden Centre in Saanich had several cars pulling up to the lot. It’s still early in the season but with COVID-19 protocols still in p...
There was a video of something to watch (still not sure what it was) but it was a small room packed with people and we didn’t feel safe with the possibility of catching COVID. I had visited the MoPop, Pacific Science Center, and the Space Needle on a previous t...
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In early May, I was hit with a bout of Covid, and while the acute symptoms were never worse than a bad cold or flu, ongoing fatigue and brain-fuzz has bedevilled me ever since. (Add in another summer cold on top of that, plus a couple of other issues… I don’t know why we ...
animals Article Garden Scraps: Agonistic Interactions between Hedgehogs and Sympatric Mammals in Urban Gardens Dawn Millicent Scott 1,*, Robert Fowler 2, Ariadna Sanglas 3 and Bryony Anne Tolhurst 4 1 School of Animal Rural and Environment Sciences, Brackenhurst Campus, Nottingham Trent University, ...
mounting of any exhibition/running of workshops/talks/events is subject to prevailing circumstances at the time which may be affected by the weather or pandemic/COVID-19, therefore dates may change at short notice and the event may be cancelled, especially due to circumstances beyond our control...