BIG GARDEN CENTRE still seeing a steady


stream of business


last 18 years,and consistent seasonal staff for the last three years. “The ones that have been here for 18 years some- times tell me what to do,”said Matz.“They know exactly their job.‘No I think we should do this today Terrie and we’ll do that thing tomorrow.’ I’m going fine,good.The younger two, they still need a year or two in here.You have to pay attention and really like what you’re doing. Laurie Haynes is one of the girls that works for me. She calls this her therapy.She says to me ‘those plants don’t talk back to me.’” With the business being the only one of its kind in


B said Matz. “But it depends how these years go because it’s


tough. It’s going be a wait-and-see,see how some of my changes I thought of for 2019 (and) all about bucking the price perception... It really isn’t because we are cheaper than a lot of places in the Hat. I have upped by orders this year on certain things that I


town, the garden centre is in a state of change. “I plan on doing 2019 and probably even 2020,”


IG Garden Centre owner (formerly Bow Island Greenhouses) Terrie Matz began her business over 20 years ago and today still has the same two employees for the


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know I’m going to rollback the price and see if we can do it on a volume.” There was a period about 10 years ago


where gardening became stale because of the generation and planning a garden where there was two people in the house- hold, and they shrunk the size of their gar- dens. Additionally, there was younger mothers


coming and had a family to feed and through 100-mile and fresh-food campaigns, they start- ed to do their own garden. Now she has noticed people shopping away


from the area and driving to the city to pur- chase gardening supplies. “Plants can be an impulse buy,” said


Matz.“ You impulse bought here and you don’t need it when you come to the greenhouse in Bow Island.You’ll come here because you didn’t buy potting soil or you missed buying some greenery. I’m down to a $10-sale ver- sus a $30 sale.” Matz said “It’s part of the percep- tion of shopping in Bow Island.”


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