“Look the winter is past . . . The flowers are springing up, the season of singing birds has come, and the cooing of turtledoves fills the air.”
~ Song of Songs 2:11, 12
Joyfully shared by Betty Hanselman
Gardener’s wife
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THE LURE OF APRIL DAYS
“Hark, I hear a robin calling!
List, the wind is from the south!
And the orchard-bloom is falling
In the dreamy vale of beeches
Fair and faint is woven mist,
And the river’s orient reaches
Are the palest amethyst.
Every limpid brook is singing
Of the lure of April days;
Every piney glen is ringing
With the maddest roundelays.
Come and let us seek together
Springtime lore of daffodils,
Giving to the golden weather
Greeting on the sun-warm hills.”
~ Lucy Maude Montgomery
(Canadian author of beloved Anne of Green Gables series; 1874-1942)
Joyfully shared by Betty Hanselman
Gardener’s wife (& eager spring celebrant)
THE “CARE-ACTER” OF OUR COMPANY (Part 3)
Caring clients and crew members understand and “buy into” the value of attention to detail in all facets of garden creation–from design and installation to long-term garden maintenance. While high-quality craftsmanship is crucial when designing and building a garden, it is equally important after the garden is installed. Our people recognize that regular garden maintenance is necessary for the long-term health, growth, and beauty of their garden investment and will do the work to increase the ROI.
We can’t overemphasize the necessity of regular garden maintenance. Not only do these visits enable our team members to manage plant growth, they also provide opportunities for our team to monitor plant health. While team members are in a garden pruning and shaping plants, they keep watch for plant pests and diseases so as to “nip them in the bud” before devastating outbreaks occur.
Please contact us (717-653-1273) to find out how we can manage and monitor your garden elements to keep your investment growing in beauty and value for the increased delight and well-being of those who spend time there. We’d love to share our garden “care-acter” with you and bring joy to your garden!
Gladly shared by Betty Hanselman
Gardener’s wife (& grateful recipient of daily garden joy)
THE “CARE-ACTER” OF OUR COMPANY (Part 2)
In addition to clients who care, we are privileged to attract caring people to our team. When Pete Dymond, the general manager at Hanselman Landscape, interviews our crew members, he is consistently impressed with their “care-acters”. Not only are they caring individuals; they also value working in a caring environment where consideration for clients, gardens, and other team members is a daily experience.
In recent conversations with team members about our strengths, Pete was pleased to hear the following: “Our strength is our level of caring.” “We care about each other.” “We pay close attention to details.” “We don’t take shortcuts.” “We do what we say and do it right.” “We are like a family–it feels warm to work here!”
While some faces have changed, this photo taken at a company picnic is representative of the caring and conscientious people our company “care-acter” attracts.
Gratefully shared by Betty Hanselman
Gardener’s wife (& privileged member of this caring group)
SPRINGTIME IN THE SECRET GARDEN
They ran from one part of the garden to another and found so many wonders that they were obliged to remind themselves that they must whisper or speak low. He showed her swelling leafbuds on rose branches which had seemed dead. He showed her ten thousand new green points pushing through the mould; They put their eager young noses close to the earth and sniffed its warmed springtime breathing; they dug and pulled and laughed low with rapture . . . . There was every joy on earth in the secret garden that morning.”
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett (from her children’s classic, The Secret Garden)
Joyfully shared by Betty Hanselman
Gardener’s wife (& huge fan of all gardens, secret & otherwise!)
SPRING UNLOCKS THE FLOWERS…
Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
~ Bishop Reginald Heber (English Anglican bishop, hymn writer, and poet; 1783 – 1826)
Shared by Betty Hanselman
Gardener’s’ wife (& spring’s “floral art” enthusiast)
From our nursery to your garden . . . a palette of floral art to paint your springtime garden!
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