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2020 Hillside Holidays

10/1/2020

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Christmas at the Greenhouse
Join us for Hillside Holidays! We will once again offer online orders starting October 22nd. Our Preview Weekend will be Sat-Sun. Nov. 21-22 from 10am-5pm. Come tag your tree! And we'll open for retail shopping on Black Friday (Nov. 27th). Our in-person shopping season will last until December 13th. We will be open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am-5pm.**

**Online orders are for pick-up only (NO SHIPPING). Please allow 48 hours before your items will be available for pick-up. We will email you when your items are available and arrange a pick-up time.

​We will have a bit more greenery and decorations available in-store that won't be available online. Call the shop or email us at info@hillsidewestliberty.com if you’re looking for something online and don't see it. We may have it in-store only.

Christmas Trees!

Christmas Trees
Come see us for fresh greenery, fresh cut Christmas trees and decorations. Some trees and inventory may be available outdoors, but please wear a mask if you plan to shop in-person. Christmas trees will soon be available for tagging and prepay. Pickup may be later during store hours (Fri, Sat, Sun: 10am-5pm starting Nov. 27th through Dec. 13th). 

Christmas Tree Sizes, Types and Prices are below:
7-8’ Canaan Fir, premium - $70.00-$80.00
6-8’ Blue Spruce, premium - $70.00-$80.00
6-8’ Concolor Fir, select-$60.00-$80.00
5-8’ Fraser Fir - $45.00-$75.00
6-8’ White Pine, premium - $50.00-$80.00

If you would like a tree bigger than 8' please call or email us at info@hillsidewestliberty.com.
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UPDATE- Online Ordering Available This Fall Season

8/17/2020

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UPDATE!
Online ordering will only be available until through Tuesday, September 8th, not the 15th.
Pick-up will now be either Thursday, September 10th from 12-4pm or Friday, September 11th from 12-6pm.

Fall Mums West Liberty
Fall Season Online Ordering is a GO!

Place your orders now for fall mums, black-eyed Susan's, celosia, pansies, ornamental peppers, millet and more!

Online ordering will remain open on the website until Tuesday, September 8th. All orders must be picked up 
Thursday, September 10th from 12-4pm or Friday, September 11th from 12-6pm. at Hillside Greenhouse.

If you need a fall fundraiser for your group, we can do that too! Just email info@hillsidewestliberty.com for details.
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Spring Season ENDS SAT. May 30

5/18/2020

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Sorry we’ve not posted much lately, but business has been crazy! Thank you to everyone who has supported us! We still have lots of beautiful plants, but things are moving quickly this season, and we are starting to run out of varieties already!

Because of this, I’m ready to announce that our last day of the Spring season will be Saturday, May 30th 

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Hours
Tuesday-Friday: 9am-6pm
Last Day is Saturday, May 30th: 9am-5pm


Taking Walk-Ins

Inventory is changing rapidly. 
Please call (937) 465-3717 to check on availability.
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In-Store Shopping Starts May 1st!

4/22/2020

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We will start in-store shopping May 1st!

BUT...it will still be on a limited basis.

Shopping will be by appointment only and is limited to 5 customers an hour. You may call (937) 465-3717 during our open hours or email info@hillsidewestliberty.com to schedule a time.
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HOURS
APRIL - Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays: 10am-4pm
MAY - Monday-Friday: 9am-7pm
Saturdays & Sundays: 9am-5pm


We will not accept appointments by phone messages or Facebook messages. Please do not bring family or friends with you in the store. (They may book a time for themselves.) We strongly urge you to wear a mask. We will follow social distancing and safety measures.

We know this is not ideal (trust us, nothing about this is ideal for us, either) but we are prioritizing the health of our employees and customers while still hoping everyone can enjoy the greenhouse.

​Hope to see you soon!

Online Ordering and phone orders for pick up will continue until further notice. Click below to browse inside our greenhouse or place an online order.
Online Ordering
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Pre-order Flats and Trays

4/16/2020

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preorder greenhouse flats and trays
To pre-order, purchase quantities must be in full flats (32 plants) or full trays of 10. 

You may order at any time, but please be aware that the later into the season we get, the increased chance that these plants will become unavailable. 

We will update the list as items sell out. Requesting a pre-order does not guarantee your order.  We will call when your order comes in to arrange pickup and payment.  Follow the dates below:

Order by:        For pickup:
April 24th       April 29/30
May 1st           May 6/7
May 8th           May 13/14
May 15th        May 20/21
Pre-order Flats and Trays at Hillside Greenhouse
Click to download PDF. You may use this form to call in your pre-order at (937) 465-3717, or you may print it, fill it out, and scan it or take a picture of it and attach the pre-order form to an email to info@hillsidewestliberty.com. Thank you!
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2020 Easter Price List

3/30/2020

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*Easter Orders must be placed by Saturday, April 4th.  
Please call 937-465-3717 or email info@hillsidewestliberty.com to place Easter orders.

Easter Orders will be available for pickup on 3 days:
Wednesday, April 8th, 10am - 4pm
Friday, April 10th, 10am - 4pm
Saturday, April 11th, 10am - 4pm

Please choose a time to pick up on these 3 days. We are limiting pick ups to 6 customers per 1/2 hour, so if your 1st choice of pick up time is already filled, you will be asked to select another pick up time for everyone's safety. Thank you for understanding.

  • When you arrive to pick up your order, call 937-465-3717 to let us know you have arrived and to arrange payment.  You may pay by credit card over the phone, or you may pay with cash or check.  If you prefer to pay in cash, you must provide exact change.
  • Your order will be brought out and placed by your vehicle for you to load.  For the safety of everyone, please do not leave your car until employees are headed back inside the shop.
 
*All employees will be taking safety precautions inside and outside the greenhouse, but please know it is impossible to eliminate all risk. Please consider seriously the risk involved to you and yours.
 
*There can be absolutely no returns on any material this season due to COVID-19 concerns.
West Liberty Easter Lillies
Click to download an Easter Order form.
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In-Store Opening Delayed; Online Store AVAILABLE!

3/28/2020

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UPDATE!

Online and phone orders are now available.

As of March 28th, here is the current plan: I will not be opening the greenhouse for in-store shopping in April. I’m just not willing to compromise the health of our employees or customers. But I also understand that we need food and flowers in our lives, and fresh air, physical activity, and the hope that only gardening can bring.

With that in mind, we will be updating the website with order forms soon. The first form will be seeds, with Cole crops and other early offerings to follow soon, then perennials, etc. The greenhouses are full, and the plants are ready, so...as soon as we can get everything set up online and safety plans in place, we will start selling.

Hopefully this will be ready by April 1st. More info. to follow as soon as I have it.

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Pre-Order Fall Plants at Hillside!

8/28/2019

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Hillside Greenhouse will be doing a FALL FLOWER Pre-Order Form! Read through the details and fill out the Pre-Order Form below to reserve your plants. We will contact you when your plants are in and ready to pick up.

Pre-Order Details​​<_
  • Payment is cash or check only and due upon pick-up.
  • All orders must be placed through the Pre-Order Form below. 
  • All orders will receive a confirmation (your choice of email or text) from Hillside Greenhouse
  • All orders must be received by Wednesday, September 25th for pick-up Friday, Sept. 27th or Saturday, Sept. 28th at Hillside Greenhouse.

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No such thing as "Time off"

1/18/2019

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​So how are we enjoying our “time off”?  That’s probably the number one question we get asked in the dark, cold days of January.  Our typical response is a little smile.  Any business owner will tell you there is never really time off, which is so true.  But this is also when we do the behind the scenes stuff that some people (myself included before I bought the greenhouse) don’t even think about.We’ve unloaded 16 pallets by hand in the last 2 days.  There are more deliveries scheduled for next week, and the week after. We’ve also received giant rolls of tubing that will be new water lines for hanging baskets and containers in our farm greenhouse, and the back greenhouse in town.  

My dear husband is the water line guy, although I and an employee or two will probably put in some time.  There is a special little tool called a punch tool for poking holes in tubing for drip lines (those hanging lines that water all the hanging baskets).  Your hands are never quite the same after punching 500+ holes in thick water line tubing, let me tell you!  And standing on a table reaching over head to measure and put in lines is a great shoulder workout.  Getting a greenhouse ready for spring is better than a gym membership.

I’m watching the snow fly out the window, thankful that this year’s soil delivery is in the books.  It’s one of the single most stressful days of the year for me!  Perhaps that’s because the first 2 years of soil delivery were ridiculous.  I’ll give you the short versions…

The first year, we were total newbies, no idea how all of this worked.  We were told to rent a bobcat, that the truck was never late, and it would take a couple hours.  So when the delivery was scheduled for early morning on the same day our son’s kindergarten Christmas program at West Liberty-Salem, we didn’t think about it being a conflict (foreshadowing here).  Fast forward a good 4 hours of sitting in a cold greenhouse with nothing to do, repeated calls to the trucking company promising the shipment was somewhere between Cincinnati and West Liberty, and finally the truck shows up.  I try to block out the rest of that day, but I have one of those indelible pictures in my head, the kind that you can recall on a seconds notice no matter where you are, of my husband driving this tiny bobcat up to thesemi-truck full of what seemed like 20 ft. pallets of soil.  He had experience driving bobcats and forklifts, and assured me it would be no problem.  The picture in my head is when he got the first pallet on the forks, backed away, and the bobcat promptly tipped forward and 45 bags of soil spilled and broke.  It only got better from there.  Let’s just say there were a lot of busted bags of soil, leaving a strange truck driver with rental equipment while we went to a Christmas program we couldn’t miss, flashing police lights on 68 where the helpful truck driver had dumped another pallet of soil while we were gone, a broken bobcat, and maybe some tears.

The next year I was determined that it would be a better experience.  I made arrangements for more help, and let the shipping company know the delivery had to be on time because I had rental equipment and the help for one day.  This story includes the promised truck being a full day late, then using the wrong address, then attempting to turn around behind King’s Feed because the truck wouldn’t make it under the train tracks, the driver burying the semi-truck up to its front axle in the grass at King’s Feed (because why wouldn’t you go through the grass with tons of soil on your truck after a torrential rain the night before?).  Luckily, the guys (and gal) at King’s are super nice and were willing to help us out.  They ended up unloading everything there, and loading it back on our trucks to take to the greenhouses.  

Last year I decided to reach out to our friends at West Liberty Building & Supply Ltd..  With their help, everything went much smoother, and this year, year 4 of soil delivery, we got the job done with no stories to tell, or too many aches and pains to deal with.  
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The moral of this story is that learning how to run a business takes patience, experience, and good friends and fellow businesses that will go out of their way to support you.  Even when it seems like drudgery getting everything fixed and ready to go in January, the light is starting to appear at the end of the tunnel.  Final orders are being placed, and plant shipments will be here in just about a month.  I can hardly wait to get my hands in all that dirt! 
Alycia
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The Hillside Greenhouse "Offseason"

10/5/2018

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by Alycia
​So, I have to confess I don’t really understand blogs.  Still.  Why do people want to read the random thoughts of other people?  Do I have thoughts worthy of other people’s time?
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With that in mind, I’ve settled on explaining a little bit about this time of year for a seasonal greenhouse business.  You might be aware that I purchased Hillside Greenhouse almost 3 years ago now, without having any knowledge of business, no retail experience, and knowing nothing about the greenhouse industry.  Sounds like a recipe for success, right?!  Well, I can tell you that I’ve always been a hard worker, and a somewhat fast learner.  By no means do I have this whole thing figured out yet (and know that I never will), but I think we are doing a pretty decent job of revitalizing the business. I’m kind of proud of that.
Hillside Greenhouse West Liberty
So on to the seasonal greenhouse biz in the off-season…first of all, no, we don’t sit around with our feet up waiting for spring to come.  I had zero idea that for a greenhouse to be ready to go in spring (or really the end of winter, when planting starts), you have to get all your ducks in a row in July. 
Brehm Family Vacation
Once we close up shop in June, I take a couple weeks completely off with my family, actually leave the country and have no phone service or internet access.  It’s definitely just what the doctor ordered after the grueling Spring Season (maybe I’ll explain why some in the industry refer to spring as the 100 Days of Hell in another blog 🙂).  With batteries recharged, I come back and start doing inventory, looking at all the new plant catalogs, collecting pictures of plant combinations that I love, and 1,001 other things that need done. 
Then it’s “Time to Decide”.  We are lucky to have one of the industry’s biggest shows right here in Ohio, and it happens in Columbus every July. “Cultivate” is where the country meets to see what’s new in plants and everything else greenhouse related.  After that, it’s up to me to go through the endless options of plant varieties and combinations and pick what we will have in the shop in the spring.  No pressure there.  It’s a high-wire act to make the calls in July and August as to what is going to be hot and sell in the spring.  And I also have to balance the limited growing space of Hillside and accommodate the tried-and-true-must-haves with the new, awesome varieties that gardeners will want.  I put a lot of thought in to my customers at this point of the year.  What did they like in their gardens this year?  What colors sold the best?  What combinations still look great in baskets and containers on front porches?  Is that one guy going to come get his 8 flats of Roma tomatoes again next spring, or are those ladies going to buy their 12 fern baskets again?  What are customers going to buy at (sigh) Walmart and Lowes because I can’t beat their prices?  What can I offer to my hard-core gardeners for something new and spectacular that they won’t find anywhere else?

All of this adds up to hours and hours of research, looking at numbers (again, and again, and again), agonizing over decisions about what I can fit in the growing space and what it’s time to move away from.  Running a small business is no joke, and I am thankful that I have the time in the summer to give these details my full attention.  Then come August, it’s time to Order!  All the plants we will grow in the spring are ordered by the time it’s time for kids to go back to school, and all the hard goods (the pots, the hoses, the gloves, etc.) are ordered by the time the leaves start to change colors.  In a fun coincidence, this is also when all the holiday orders are due; I’m ordering geraniums in the morning, and picking out the right Christmas wreaths in the afternoon!  Although it’s a bit stressful making all of these decisions, as the owner (and a control freak) I love it and wouldn’t have it any other way.  It’s my business, so it had better be my booty on the line when it comes down to it!
Matt Brehm
I won’t even get into any of the maintenance that we have to put into the structure, which also happens in the summer and fall.  If you’ve been to Hillside, hopefully you’ve noticed some of the efforts we’ve put forth there, and it’s not going to stop any time soon! The maintenance man (my dear husband, Matt) is super excited about that.  Full sarcasm.

Hopefully I haven’t bored you to death.  And if I have, you’ve probably stopped reading by this point anyway!  Next up, I’ll talk about the other season at Hillside, the Holidays. Much different than spring, but I LOVE it and can’t wait to decorate and smell those fresh greens!  Even for a seasonal greenhouse, there’s never any down time.  Thank goodness
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    Hillside Greenhouse is located at 302 Zanesfield Rd. in West Liberty, OH, directly across from Marie's Candies. Alycia and Matt Brehm purchased Hillside Greenhouse in 2016, and are proud to carry on a long tradition.  There has been a greenhouse business at this location for over 100 years ! In 2015 Alycia made a career change from teaching high school biology to make her life growing and selling plants.  They live near West Liberty where Matt and his father also have a fish farm that raises yellow perch.   They have two growing boys, and are excited to be a part of the growing small business community in West Liberty!

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