Texas Tough Bulbs for beautiful color year-round

You’ll be amazed at our huge selection of Texas grown perennial bulbs. Choose from an array of Grape Hyacinth, Daffodils, Spanish Bluebells, Alliums, Spider lilies and so much more. Pick your favorites now before they’re all gone!

Shop Organic & Local

Did you know that NHG grows many garden plants and veggies organically right at the garden center? Blue Label Herbs, grown by our local sister company, are also grown organically. Don’t forget to pick up some NHG Organic Herb Food!

 Select your fresh wreaths, swags, garland & fresh cut trees the day after Thanksgiving, November 26th.

 Choose from the best fresh-cut Christmas trees in town!

 Check out the new Poinsettia ‘Orange Spice’ and exotic Amaryllis varieties.

Miss Mawkers Coffee & Tea at the Dallas Farmer’s Market? They’re here at NHG each weekend in winter. Check online at www.nhg.com for their schedule.

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more on SARAH PERRY AND MARY NORVELL

It’s probably been a lot of work. Has It been tougH?

MN: It is not really tough. It is time consuming, and we have a lot of vendors who want to be a part of the market and in some areas, we have to pick and choose. the market is held the second and fouth saturday of every month. the first one of the month is crafts and food, and the second is just food.

wHy mIgHt a vendor be turned away?

SP: we have to strike a balance. there are a lot of bakers and jewelry makers, for example; we can’t have too much of one thing. one thing we are always looking out for, though, is good produce. sometimes the produce is sold out by 10 a.m. eggs, too. so those types of things are a priority when it comes to striking that balance. the farmers need to be local, generally that means within 150 miles of dallas. and all the crafts are handmade.

wHat types of tHIngs do you Have planned for tHe fall season?

MN: we have a pie-baking contest planned for nov. 13, and a big holiday market planned for december (visit whiterocklocalmarket.com for dates).

wHat types of tHIngs can we expect to see at one of tHese bIg markets?

SP: Handmade natural body products, ceramics, knitters, clothing, furniture — tom o’kelly is a very popular furniture vendor. there’s a guy who sells rain barrels, and a guy who refurbishes and sells old bicycles, to name a few. then of course there is food — dairy, meat, produce, tamales, pasta, preserves and local honey.

Have you learned anytHIng outstandIng so far from your experIence wItH tHe wHIte rock local market?

MN: we have been to visit some of the farmers; we do some visiting during the off-season in January and february. we went out to windy Hill farm, for example, and the animals, the pigs, they live on this beautiful land. those pigs have it made. It is just so cool to see.

SP: I love the feeling of bringing food home to my own family from the market. you get the organic, all-natural food, and it’s a good feeling to bring it all home and to know that your money went directly to the farmers. I also love watching the vendors — a diverse group of people — interact with one another. they give one another products, barter, and help each other out — it’s this great sense of community. that’s my favorite thing.

—chriStiNa hugheS BaBB

PETPAUSE golden girl

GRIGS the 10-year old golden retriever is eager — rain, shine or snow — to play and fetch the morning paper every day. She also enjoys romantic walks with the dog next door, a chocolate lab named Sully, her owner JOHN NOEDING of the L Streets says. “She assumes that every dog and every person she meets is just as friendly as she is ... she loves wagging her tail at people when we are stopped at red lights, trying and usually succeeding at coaxing a smile out of them. She seems to love everyone and everything.”

Writer In Residence

Arge Brockles, “On My Way Home”

“On My Way Home” is a religious memoir by Lake Highlands resident Arge Brockles, who founded Northlake Bible Church in Garland in 1972. This isBrockles’personal story of how he escaped a “religioushaze” and transformedhisspirituallife. Dallas oldtimers might recognize the Brockles name from BrocklesRestaurant, a popular downtown Dallas eatery during the 1940s-70s, or from Brockles Special Dressing. Arge Brockles grew up in the home of mom Ola and dad, restaurateur AndrewBrocklesin Lakewood. The family’simmigration from Greece, lifethrough World War II, the writer’s academic dismissal from Texas A&M and subsequent initiation into the restaurant business all shape the memoir, which is peppered with laugh-out-loud tales of struggles with language barriers and a father’s bad driving habits and good fortune with traffic cops. By the end of the story, the author has solidified his Christian faith.

—CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB