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September 15, 2012

Our Fall Festival has come and gone. I hope you were able to get here for the fun. The weather was perfect; just cool enough to remind you that fall was here and warm enough to make the day enjoyable. This year’s crowd was the largest yet. Our parking lot was filled and the lot at CWI next door was too.

View our photo gallery from the event, here

This year we had 40 vendors, covering a wide variety of interests, from jewelry to sign makers to a photographer. Our friends from Parkland Alpaca Farm were here with two animals. We had chair massages, North Country Wild Life and SPCA of Upstate NY (with puppies and kittens). Did I mention a troupe of belly dancers? We had them too.

Greetings from The Flower Guy:

It’s been an interesting growing season this year. Hot and dry early, with the fall trying to make up the rain shortfall. The warm late summer weather helped us to produce huge mums with enough rain and mild weather to extend the annuals. With the Thanksgiving / Christmas seasons just ahead I’m looking back on our Fall Festival and forward to our newest arrival, mulch.

Our Christmas trees and greens are scheduled to arrive around Thanksgiving and inside our store we’ve begun the change-over to the holidays. I’ll post some history and care of Christmas trees on our website, so look for that in December. On the subject of Christmas, I’m rerunning an article from last year on care of poinsettias.

Seventh annual event

Join us on Sat. September 15 from 9:30 AM to 4 PM for our 6th annual Fall Festival. WCKM's morning crew, Pete and Dan will be broadcasting live from 10 to 1. This year we've got something for everyone.

The SPCA of Upstate NY will be here with pets for adoption. Also our friends from the Parkland Alpaca Farm will be here with some animals. The Valley Road Maple Farm will be here with syrup, maple cotton candy and other maple products. New this year is Meme’s Snack Shack, Roger’s Dessert Cart, custom Wood Signs Woodcraft, locally grown produce plus many more.

Come and see live birds of prey brought by North Country Wild Care. The NYS Police will be here at 10 AM & 1 PM with a canine demo.

There'll be local crafters, some that have not been here before, vintage cars, belly dancers, a dunk tank fund-raiser for SPCA and chair massages from The Massage Works.

Of course we will be featuring our spectacular garden mums and fall decor, including pumpkins and cornstalks. Stop by and join the fun. If you're not here, we'll miss you!

It's always busy around here in May and June, but this year was really special; we were chosen to receive two awards. In May the Post-Star's reader's "Best of the Region" survey named Binleys as the area's favorite florist and garden center.

The Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce in early June, awarded Binleys the "Steven Sutton Business of the Year". This was awarded based upon various criteria and judged by a committee of Chamber members.

I want to thank all who nominated and voted for Binleys and mostly to our staff, who enjoy what they do and belive in customer service.