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Fox’s Country GardenNorth Albany, Oregon
Inside the greenhouse at Fox's Country Garden. Wooden benches of potted petunias in pink, purple and red run down one side, a long bed of green succulents down the other, and hanging baskets in full bloom fill the foreground.

Buy your plants from the people who grew them.

A family farm on Springhill Drive, growing hanging baskets, veggie starts, perennials, succulents and cut flowers. Open Fridays through the season, and at the Albany Farmers Market on Saturdays.

Where to find us

Get directions to the farm Fridays, 9 to 5, April through September

Saturday shoppers want Water & Ferry instead.

Note for the owner, not page copy

Google lists you as open Friday 9 to 5 and closed the rest of the week. That is a third of what you actually do. It carries no season, so in January it tells people you are open this Friday, and it says nothing at all about Saturdays at the market. Your Instagram bio has all three, and Google has never seen it.

Two things I could not settle and did not want to guess at. Your farm season reads April through September, but the market runs to November 21, so there are about two months where you are at the market and the farm is shut. Is that right? And is there a way people should ask about an appointment, or is that just "call me"?

What people say

4.9across 14 Google reviews
Wonderful selection of healthy, vibrant and breathtaking flowers and succulents. Review left in 2023
Got great deal in plant! Lot of selection. The owner had wonderful suggestions. Review left in 2024
Note for the owner, not page copy

Those two are off WhirLocal, not Google, and I left the reviewers' names off on purpose. If you would rather use two of your Google reviews instead, point at the ones you like and I will swap them.

What we grow

Twelve things, more or less, depending on the month

Behind those twelve words: dahlias, zinnias, sunflowers, asters, ranunculus, snapdragons, lisianthus and eucalyptus on the cut flower side. Tomatoes, peppers, squash, kale, garlic, salad mix and about twenty-five more in the vegetable rows. Houseplants, bulbs, ferns and landscape trees in the nursery. Figs, for some reason, which is the kind of thing you only find out by turning up.

The Fox's Country Garden market table. A black banner printed with the farm name in white script lists the twelve product categories down one side, and the table in front holds packets of dried herbs, a dried flower hoop and bunches of bouquets on a lace cloth.
The list above is the one printed on our own market banner.
Note for the owner, not page copy

Everything in that list came off your banner in your own photo, and everything in the paragraph under it came off your Corvallis-Albany Farmers' Market vendor page, where you ticked about eighty things. I have deliberately not written that any of it is in stock, because a checklist is not a bench.

If there is a better way to say what is ready in a given week, that is the part of a website worth building properly.

Cut flowers

Cut flower arrangements in glass steins on a lace cloth. A large pink and yellow dinnerplate dahlia sits above magenta and purple asters, coral lilies and eucalyptus. On a wooden tray to the side, resin pendants on silver chains with real pressed flowers set inside them.
Steins of dahlias and asters, and the pressed flower pendants that are what “resin art” means.
Note for the owner, not page copy

Heads up, there is a $12.00 sign readable in that photo and the post is a year old. Nothing on this page mentions a price, but if steins have gone up, tell me and I will use a different shot.

Bulbs

Hand-packaged gladiola bulbs in a wicker basket. Each packet carries a printed label reading Gladiola bulbs, plant after danger of frost, April to May, temps of 55 degrees, six bulbs, finished with a kraft paper tag on garden twine.
Six to a packet, tagged and tied by hand. Plant them after the last frost.

What is ready this week

Follow along on Instagram
Everything that comes out of the greenhouse ends up there first, usually the same day. It is the fastest way to see what is on the bench before you drive out.
Note for the owner, not page copy

You have 175 posts on there and you post right through the winter, which is more than almost anybody I look at. There is no link to it from your Google listing, so essentially nobody who searches for a nursery in Albany ever gets to it.

Still to come from you

Note for the owner, not page copy

A phone number. There are two of yours out there. Google and the directories that copy Google have one, and the farmers market has a different one. I did not want to put the wrong one on a button, so there is no call button on this page yet. Which one do you want ringing?

Your name. There is nothing on this page telling anyone who you are, and for a family farm that is the biggest thing missing. I could not find a name anywhere I trusted and I was not going to guess at yours.

A photo with a person in it. Same reason. Everything here is plants. One picture of whoever hands people their basket would do more than the other four put together.

What turning up is actually like. Do people wander the greenhouse, or do you pull things for them? Is there somewhere to park a truck? Nobody who has not been out there knows, and it is the sort of thing that decides whether a stranger makes the drive.

Your logo. The fox is lovely and the only copy of it I could get is 150 pixels wide, which is too small for anything. If you have the original file it belongs at the top of this page.