The Garden Centre on the farm is open. Corn Maiden Garden & Imports is open daily from 9:30 – 5:30 for this week and then we lengthen the hours to 9:00 to 6:00 for the spring.
We grow almost all of the annual bedding plants right here on the farm. We source our perennials and a few annuals from other small family owned greenhouse operations.
The Garden Centre also carries prairie hardy shrubs and a good selection of fruit trees. We offer a special order process for those customers that need a large number of trees to establish new yard sites or acreages. We also offer a free garden design service if you don’t know where to begin with your bedding plants.
We started the Garden Centre in 2006 after discussing options for extending our sales season. As you can imagine it is difficult to make a living with in only 4 months of sales! So now we start growing the bedding plants in February, and open the Garden Centre in late April. This does extend our sales season, but it really increases our work load too!
In 2006 we also began importing garden pottery from Asia. Now we import garden and home decor from Asia, Mexico and Africa. We sell everything from giant Mexican clay garden pots to hand made silver jewelry from Nepal. We have the largest selection of Mexican decor in Saskatchewan, and many of the items are made to our specifications so cannot be found at any other shop. The gift section is located upstairs in the area called the PookaRoola Handcraft Gallery. Most of the items we offer here are certified Fair Trade, and the rest are sourced by us from the artisans in Mexico directly. We have new items arriving all the time, and a new shipment from Africa will be coming in the next month.
We have plans to continue expanding the farm and the activities that we offer. This year we are planting more u-pick berries and we continue to work on the walking trails. The Labyrinth will be completed this spring and we are looking for sculpture to install along the walking trail.
So many things to do, so little time!
Today we will be making more hanging baskets and container gardens and getting things ready to start going to the RFM in a few weeks.
