Well guys and gals, even though our summer has been relatively mild so far with a record low July, we still have most of August to get through. We’ve still got some great plants in the garden center and we are pricing them even lower so they all go to happy homes. So here it is, SALE STARTS AUG. 15TH:

4″ PERENNIALS – $1
GALLON PERENNIALS – 50% OFF
3″ HERBS – $1
4″ ANNUALS – $1
ROCK GARDEN PLANTS – $3.95
TREES & SHRUBS – 25% OFF

Tell your friends, tell your neighbors, “Dog Days are coming!”

For all of you who have not yet experienced trough making and the like we are offering these classes again this fall. And I’m sure there are those of you wanting to take the classes for a second or third time. Teachers and students alike seem to love getting their hands dirty while creating a unique and special piece for their garden.

A quick reminder – we are always willing to schedule a class for you and your friends or garden club. (Minimum of five people attending) You just need to call and speak with Peggy and set up a time that works for both you and us.

English Trough Workshop

August 7th (fri. 10am) or 8th (sat. 2pm), September 11th (fri. 10am) or 12th (sat. 2pm)

One of our most popular classes – make a rustic hypertufa planter from cement, peat moss, perlite and water. All materials are supplied – and the best thing is that we’ll clean up! Be sure to wear old clothes since this is definitely a “hands-on” workshop. $30.00 fee, advance registration is required.

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Casting Leaves in Concrete

August 14th (fri 10am) or 15th (sat. 2pm)

Learn to make impressions of real leaves in cement, to use as a small bird bath, garden ornament, or coffee-table conversation piece. All materials supplied, but participants are encouraged to bring leaves. Possible options would be a large hosta or canna leaf. Once again, be sure to wear old clothes, just in case! $30.00 fee, advance registration is required.

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Make a Stepping Stone

September 18th (fri 10am) or 19th (sat. 2pm)

Make your own work of garden art – a concrete stepping stone, finished with white cement and embellished with real leaves, stones, shells, or anything else to hand! All materials supplied, but you can bring your own embellishments if you’d like. $30.00 fee, advance registration is required.

To register:

* Call (502)296-1499 or (502)491-6305
* Visit www.thienemans.com (go to Coconuts Corner, click on “Classes” for a printable registration form.)
* or sign up when you come in and visit us

P.S. – Got any ideas for a class you would like to take? Let us know and we might just offer it, maybe even this fall.

I can’t believe it! We are right around the corner from the longest day of the year – June 21st. Do you know what that means? From then until December 21st every day of this year gets a little bit shorter. It feels as if someone turned up the treadmill speed while I wasn’t looking. And it’s times like these that I understand the value of ‘living in the moment’ so again I make that mid-year resolution to do just that.

Which brings us to our Summer Solstice Celebration – the 8th one so far. It’s a fair amount of work for our small crew particularly after a very busy Spring but we want to celebrate the year. We also want to show everyone how to stop and smell the roses as well as thank our customers for their continued support. It’s nice that we have a farm to do this on. It might help call to mind a simpler life style.

This year our focus is on food – preferably the home-grown or locally grown variety. Don’t confuse the term ‘simpler’ with the word ‘easier’. Growing your own food makes your life simpler because all the work involved in planting, sowing, watering, de-bugging, weeding, harvesting, and preserving eliminates all those other consumer focused activities that currently fill up our days. But on Friday night the l9th of this month we will make it easier and simpler to enjoy that harvest.

We have invited Mark Williams, the Spirited Chef and organizer of Slow Food Bluegrass, to come and offer picnic style fare with the emphasis on locally grown. He will be serving grass-fed beef burgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs and locally grown salads along with fresh cobbler, Elmwood Inn iced tea and organic lemonade. Come and support Mark and Slow Food Blugrass. The price is right, the food is great and it’s the green thing to do.

New this year! A Garden Hat Contest! Thieneman’s encourages creativity and we will be rewarding that effort with a $50.00 gift certificate. Be a horticultural fashionista and come strut your stuff. Judging takes place at 8 p.m. (Judges names will not be released prior to contest to prevent lobbying efforts.)

For the Next Generation of Gardeners we will have veggie coloring books, we’ll be planting seeds and Bernheim Park representatives will be there offering encouragement to kids to Get Outside! A bedtime story, “What the Wind Told” will be read at 9 o’clock and a bedtime snack – smores could also be found around the fire-pit.

Entertainment will be provided by the String Chickens and they are promising a new twist to their musical endeavors this year.

As always this will be the first big SALE of the year so come prepared to find some bargains.

Come and have some fun. Stuff gets crackin about 6pm and we won’t stop until midnight. Whew!

Lose at the tracks?… Win at Thienemans!
Come in this week and get some color for your patio. Buy FOUR annuals ($4.25 each) and get the FIFTH one FREE. Keep ’em watered well and feed them occasionally, and you should have blooms all summer. A bigger pot and some deadheading wouldn’t hurt either. Sale runs thru Memorial Day. We still have a great selection of annuals.

Abe Hall
Ace 55
Amish Oxheart
Amish Paste
Amulet
Arkansas Travler
Aunt Ruby’s German Green
Australian Heart, ‘Joe Thieneman’
Barnes Mountain Pink
Barnes Mountain Yellow
Bear Claw
Beefsteak
Black Cherry
Black From Tula
Black Krim
Black Master
Black Mountain Pink
Black Pear
Black Plum
Black Prince
Black Truffle
Black Yum Yum
Brandy Sudduths Pink
Buckeye Yellow
Bulgarian Triumph Red
Butler Skinner
Calf’s Heart
Caspian Pink
Champagne Cherry
Cherokee Purple
Chris Ukranian
Clustermato
Cows Tit
Creole
Depinto
Depps Pink Fire Fly
Dr. Walter
Dr. Wyghe’s Yellow
Dwarf Champion
Early Girl
Frank’s Large Red
Fresh Salsa
George O’Brian
German Johnson
Giant Belgium
Giant Italian Paste
Giant Sicillian Paste
Gift from Woodland
Grandfather Ashlock
Grandma Viney’s
Granny Cantrell’s German Red
Green Grape
Green Zebra
Haley’s Purple Comet
Hasting Mildglobe
Hazelfield Farm Red
Hege German Pink
Hog Heart
Indiana Red
J.D.’S Texas Special
Kellog’s Breakfast
Kentucky Striped
Khaborosky
King Umberto
Kosovo
KY Heirloom
Ky. Beefsteak
Ky. Light Yellow
Ky. Pink Stamper
Ky. Plate
Ky. Wonder
Large Red Cherry
Lenny & Gracie’s Red
Lenny & Gracie’s Yellow
Lichi Cherry
Lime Green Salad
Lincoln Adams
Linnie’s Oxheart
Livingdon Globe
Lumpy Red
Mama Leona
Marglobe
Marianna’s Peace
Matina
Max’s Large Green
Mikado Ecarlote
Monk
Moraviqua Del mercato
New Jersey Championship
New Yorker
Old Kentucky
Opalaka Paste
Opal’s Homestead
Orange Strawberry
Ozark Pink
Pale Perfect Purple
Palestinian
Pan American
Pasture Cherry
Peacevine Red Cherry
Persimmon
Pike County
Pik’s Yugo
Pink Climber
Pink Ice Cherry
Pink Ruffle
Plum Lemon
Polish C Pink
Potato Leaf Cherokee Purple
Pritchards Scarlet Red Topper
Purple Dog Creek
Red Calabash
Red Grape
Red Kimberly
Red Lightening
Red Robin
Red Russian
Riesentraube (Red)
Romeo Roman
Rose Beauty
Royal Hillbilly
Rutgers
San Marzano
Santorini Salad
Sicilian Saucer
St. Pierre
Striped Roman
Sun gold Cherry
Sweet Baby Girl
Sweet Meat
T.C. Jones Yellow
Tappy’s Finest Pink
Thessalonia
Tigerella
Tondina Maremmano
Tony’s Italian Paste
Uncle Mark Bagby
Viva
Walzer
Wes
Williams Striped
Winsall
Winter Grape
Yellow Pear Cherry
Yoders German Yellow