Think back to neon colours, puffy hair and some of the best music ever created! That’s right 1980’s! My father (Dale Winstanley) had created his company Dale’s Gardening & Landscaping Inc. He was well versed in planting flowers in pots but in the late 1980’s he was working for the Park Plaza in Toronto and they didn’t like the idea of empty pots in the Winter. My father decided to go out and cut some evergreens and stick them in the pots at the Park Plaza and guess what? The Winter Pot was created. Although this is a self professed prophecy I’m pretty sure he’s right! It started with a few meager pine branches and now has turned into an absolute necessity for great winter curb appeal!
The new generation of Winter Pot design and Planting is much harder then it looks. From design to install there is a lot that goes into them. Did I mention you have to think about Winter in July! All my ordering of all my winter products is done in July. I have to think out each customers pot (all 150 pots) and make sure I have exactly what I need to create that special look. I have lots of customers who don’t want the traditional Christmas looking pot so I must come up with new concepts and colour themes to create that perfect combination that accents my customers homes. From traditional to modern there is a design for everyone.
I absolutely love every moment of designing your custom pot installation, and thanks to my dad there will be many winter pot displays to come.