We won’t mess with the dog like this

There are many different pre-carved evergreen bushes available for purchase at Chuck Hafner’s Garden Center. You know, for those of us who want a great topiary but don’t think we have the artistic talent with the clippers. They are interesting. We could not do that to our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle.

Some lawns add extras to their flowers

When my dear wife Karen and I safely stroll the aisles of Chuck Hafner’s Garden Center each spring, different features catch my eye. Some worker spent extra time in the lawn statue section this year. Somebody somewhere has a green space waiting to be spiced up with one (or more) of these babies. Not us.…

Our spring trip to find new garden plants

My dear wife Karen and I decided our spring picks at Chuck Hafner’s Garden Center would include a new azalea. That section was surprisingly spare in its choices. We did add one to our cart. Thank you to sister-in-law Lynne for the gift certificate for this spring’s shopping spree! I’ll wait to show you the…

We add our Gerber Daisy

Walking all the aisles at Chuck Hafner’s Garden Center is a pleasurable safe hike, mask and all. After soaking in the genres we decided upon … A lovely Gerber daisy. Yes, we do have an annual every year, too.

A garden center in a suburban setting

When you look out in the distance at Chuck Hafner’s Garden Center, you’d think they were growing and welling their plants and trees out in the country. Look in another direction, though, and you can spot the big buildings of other businesses poking through the nature. This is, after all, the suburbs of Syracuse.

Hafner’s Garden Center can do it socially distanced

It took us way longer than usual to take our annual trip to Chuck Hafner’s Garden Center. The biggest of our local nurseries always looked too darn crowded for safe socially distancing for my dear wife Karen and I. Then we took the Monday following the July Fourth weekend off. The plants were still many.…

Our new little tree makes us smile

Little by little, my dear wife Karen and I got the inside holiday decorating done in A Bitty Better exactly the way we wanted it. The final piece of the puzzle fell into place with a trip to Chuck Hafner’s Garden Center, just down the road now from our lovely new home in the Liverpool…