As you step out of your car the smell of maples and fresh autumn air fill your nostrils. The parking lot is nothing more than one big dirt patch and lose dirt feels like gravel beneath your sandals. The entrance to Martin Viette Nurseries looks as if it’s a hike from where you are parked but it’s nothing short of a 400 foot walk. The Martin Viette sign is hand carved from wood with white paint highlighting the words. Yet, the sign itself is flanked by May flowers which are sustainable within this fall’s ‘Indian summer’. As you approach the threshold of the Martin Viette’s home decor shoppe the musty smell of damp wood and Christmas spices envelop the atmosphere which makes you smile because you sense the holidays are finally here.
Martin Viette is a family owned nursery that looks like a farm from the highway. The products and vegetation it grows and sells are to accomodate the needs of gardeners and home makers. They also offer haunted hay rides during the harvest season which is in honor of Halloween. Their home decor shoppe will appease any devout Christmas decorator; my father happens to be one of them. These intricate and glitzy decorations will light up any adolescents eyes and evoke feelings of curiosity as well as joy. If you are not a child it will certainly bring out the kid in you.
Martin Viette holds raffles, hosts Garden Club and Good Earth Kids Club Meetings, MV plant seminars and events every month (and tons around the holidays). If you are a garden member you can regularly attend those seminars and receive weekly e-newsletters. However you do not have to be a club member or resident to shop there.
All are welcome but parking is limited and fills up quickly on weekends.Anyone can also purchase gift cards to their stores online ($1000 maximum). So what are you waiting for ? Don’t you want to feel like a kid again when the holidays start setting in as opposed to feeling your wallet is running away from you? For more information on the nurseries services, events, locations, hours of operation, and inventory go to http://www.martinviette.com/
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- Martin Viette Home Decor Christmas & Holiday Shoppe
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- Christmas Decorations
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- Pumpkin pickers at work.
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- A little girl hounds her father for some apples.
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- Kids run around as their mother pays for their pumpkins.
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- A Martin Viette employee shows a customer around the store.
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- Pumpkin field alongside Martin Viette decor shoppe. It’s huge.
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- Baby lambs awaiting to be hand fed.
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- Road alongside tree nursery, to the left of the pumpkin patch and field.
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- Something my father would place by my grandmother’s parking space in her garage.
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- One lonely pumpkin behind the petting zoo.
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- Children’s pumpkin picking field.
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- Family paying at Martin Viette nursery check-out, outdoors.
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- Martin Viette associate assisting elderly customers with their purchases.
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- A kiddle plays with christmas figurines by the shoppe’s cash wrap.
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- A section of the tree nursery.
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- Corn and wheat fields surrounding the mini petting zoo.
You have some lovely landscape photos including pix of the pumpkins. But unless you focus on the people who run the nursery and their family (if they’re involved), then how are you going to portray it as a community? The people who stop by are just that, transient shoppers.