Last week's record snow in our area has succumbed to sunny skies and warmer temperatures this week. Spring is lurking and gardeners are planning.
While you're planning, don't forget to include vertical growing. Trellises can be used to support your favorite vines in any area of your garden, from showy colorful vines to pole beans in the vegetable garden. They can add an interesting vertical focal point in an otherwise flat landscape. Utilizing one or more vine-covered trellises as a privacy fence will create a natural division between you and your neighbors or you can create a secluded outdoor living or dining space by surrounding an area with trellises.
Our rustic mountain cedar trellises are now available in Fort Worth at Elizabeth Anna's Old World Garden at 2825 8th Ave. They are just a few blocks north of Berry St. across from Luby's and Fiesta.
Elizabeth Anna Samudio and her business partner and husband, James, are earth conscience so their green commitment from the start is to reuse, recycle and restore as much as possible in their work and design practices.
That's why they like using our rustic mountain cedar trellises and plan to incorporate them as well as our pergolas and arbors in their designs when possible.
"I like using this type of wood product because it's sustainable," said Elizabeth. "It's finding a new use from a tree that is otherwise considered a water guzzling menace to many."
Elizabeth Anna's Old World Garden is the only totally organic garden store in Fort Worth and has been featured in many mainstream and national publications, such as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Garden Chic, and Woman's World magazine.
In addition to the garden store, Elizabeth designs unique landscapes to reflect clients' personalities. Their landscape installation and gardening maintenance are carried out using organic practices. Understanding and valuing the importance between healthy soil, healthy plants, and healthy people, synthetic chemical herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers are not used in their work.
Elizabeth and James don't just respect and value the the earth, they value people too.
"We respect and place high value on the people we serve, as well as the people we employ," said Elizabeth. "We believe in fair-trade in the industry for both our workers and our clients."
Chickens and roosters welcoming customers are the last things you would expect to find at a business nestled in the middle of Fort Worth on a busy street, but that's exactly what you'll find at Elizabeth Anna's. And to keep them healthy Elizabeth feeds them organic food. They are an organic city feed store for urban pets, farm animals, and people at their city farms.
Other items at the garden store include organic fertilizers, urban composters and rainbarrels, as well as organic seeds and plants. Check out their website at www.elizabethanna.net to read more about what they do. Elizabeth Ann's Old World Garden is located at 2825 8th Ave., Fort Worth. They can be reached at 817-922-0930.
