If you're like me you cringe everytime you turn on the television or open the paper to the headlines "Economy in Crisis". We are all aware of the sudden changes in our economic situation, but hearing about it morning, noon, and night makes it even more difficult to do what we need to do to get by in the world. If staying around the house a little more is one of the ways you plan to economize, Rainbow Mums can help you change your yard into a year-round flower show. With our incomparably beautiful plants and gardening advice, you can come home each day to an inspiring & colorful yard. It will make you happier and proud when your neighbors and friends compliment you on how beautiful your home has become!

Expanding your gardening plans is a great and economical way to enjoy spending more of your summer months at home. While itty bitty perennials you can buy elsewhere may take 2 to 3 years to become established and full of flowers, Rainbow Mums perennials and mums are so much larger and healthier, that you will find you have a full-grown planting this year. And that will make the time and money you spend on your garden instantly rewarding!

For quite a few years now, mass marketers and big box stores have been driving smaller retailers out of business with the promise of high quality, and low prices. If you have been to any of them, you have found dry plants, poor selection and well, exactly the opposite of what they advertise. Also, who are all those "plant experts" that they brag about? Ever ask one of them a question? Ever find one? You see, almost all garden and home centers are completely out of touch with the plants that they sell. They don't know who grew them, or even where they came from. All plants are living things and need to be out in the air, in the proper light, and being watered and fed regularly. Healthy, thriving plants have almost no "shelf life". They must never be dried out, stored on racks, inside a building, or under any type of roof.

And so the most important reason to become a regular customer of Rainbow Mums and Perennials will become apparent the minute you step out of your car. Here at our farm, you will shop among plants of incomparible quality, and you will find great everyday values as well as special purchases. You will speak directly to the family that has raised the plants from scratch on our property. We will design whole areas for you free of charge, and help get you started with printed planting instructions, and lists of literary references for further reading and study. We will help you to your car and even help you pack the plants when you get carried away and buy too many to fit!

Rainbow Mums is sensitive to the changing needs of our special customers. This is why over 4,000 cars pull into our farm each season. For 2009 we hear that our competitors are preparing for a poor turnout by cutting back what they will have to sell. By contrast, we are preparing for our biggest year ever by having many more choices for shade gardening and a fantastic new shade house to shop in. The only thing we really need is the continued support of our local New England gardeners for us to continue to grow and sell our beautiful perennials and mums. We hope you who are reading this will continue to shop at Rainbow Mums. It will help your home to be more beautiful to come back to each day, and it will help us to be here for another 25 years!