E-Mail: cmartin@potters.com
Profile: Cam started with Potters in 1992. He showed up with a friend who was already working for us because we needed help unloading trucks. At the end of the week, we kept Cam and fired his friend. They still talk, which we find amazing. When we opened our 72nd Ave store a year later, we made Cam the manager. If I remember right, no one else wanted the job. Cam was instrumental in starting our House of Horrors Hallowe’en attraction and runs it every year. When our Ocean Park store opened, we moved Cam over to manage that store, much to the disappointment of his long time customers at 72nd Ave. He is also our General Manager and spends a portion of time visiting growers to earmark the best plants for our stores. And he is addicted to Tim Horton’s but refuses counseling. We tried an intervention, but wouldn’t you know it….someone brought coffee.
Well if you didn’t know already, our Scare Team went to Las Vegas this past March to the Transworld Haunt Show… a whole trade show devoted to the “Haunt Industry”! We purchased some new toys this year and the big unmarked crates have been arriving for the past couple of weeks. This year’s House of Horrors will [...]
All season we’ve been getting requests for Tumbler Tomato baskets and finally we can fill the demand. If you haven’t heard of them, these Tumblers are a great choice for window boxes or hanging baskets. Tumbler Tomato was developed to cascade from hanging baskets as well as for good taste. It bears nicely flavored cherry [...]
“Nature Gold Products” Made in BC It took me by surprise that these products would catch on so quickly. Natures Gold products are made of natural recycled compost products right here in BC. The potting soil is our best seller this year. I’ve used it myself this year and my containers are off to a [...]
Just in… 2 items just came in this week for our perennial selection I think are worth mentioning. 1st, Agapanthus africanus, or Dwarf lily of the Nile. This one is named “Peter Pan” Its a beautiful mini version of the popular original cultivars. Small clumps give rise to deep blue flower clusters on sturdy stalks. [...]
Just arrived…The Amazing Fan Flower! I just received an order of Proven Winner Baskets and in the mix is a few of the Scaveola baskets aka Fan Flower. These aren’t the easiest things to find these days. Most growers don’t do them as they aren’t the easiest thing to sell and they don’t appeal to [...]
Look up in the sky. There is a big yellow ball of fire up there again! That’s all it takes to change the mood in any garden center. I can see my shadow again! I have to say its been too long coming for some good weather. I’m starting to see some of my regular [...]
Well, now that we have a blog up and running, I am told that I need to fill everyone in on what the 72nd Street Potters store has been up to since the annual Potters House of Horrors shut down for the season. (Which by the way was a screaming success – probably our best [...]
Everybody’s got shady spots.. here’s some great shady annuals that we carry regularily. Tuberous begonias, fibrous begonias, mimulus, fuchsias, impatiens (the BEST!), double impatiens, trailing ivy, lamium, creeping charlie, coleus… all of these things go great in shade. And the nice thing I find with shady planters/ baskets, is that you have to water way [...]
