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Monday Morning Moment Of Zen | Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio | Jackson, Tennessee

April 29, 2019, 6:55 am
Filed under: Fountains, General Blog Entry's, God Bless America, Koi, Koi Ponds, Lake and Pond, Landscaping & Gardening, Love, Nursery, Outdoor Lifestyles, Pondless Waterfalls, Videos, water garden, Waterfalls | Tags: Early Morning, In the Garden, Koi, Koi Feeding, Landscape Lighting, Moment of Zen, Monday Morning Moment of Zen, Monday’s, Pond Lighting, Underwater Lighting, Water Garden Video, Waterfall Video, Waterfalls, Zen

This time of year I can hardly stay inside the house 😊 My eyes automatically POP open between 4:30 & 5am & that’s when I get outside. This morning I shot this short little video of my Koi eating a “First Light” meal – They were ready! 😊 I hope this brings a little Zen to your day…

Mark Carter

Carter’s Nursery, Pond & Patio

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Sunday Reflections…

When the hummingbirds are back around the nursery, it’s like magic to me. They have all the available flowers you can imagine, plus multiple feeders – They are in heaven too I think. I’ve been watching a few buzzing around this morning while I do my watering… It never gets old 😊

Hummingbirds are tough, tenacious little dudes! I ❤️ Hummingbirds!

This beautiful poem sums it up…

“When the hummingbird sinks it’s face into the trumpet vine, and the funnels

Of the blossoms and the tongue leaps out and throbs,

I am scorched to realize once again how many small, available things are in the world

That aren’t pieces of gold or power —- that nobody owns

Or could buy even for a hillside of money —- that just float about the world,

Or drift over the fields, or into the gardens, and into the tents of the vines, and how here I am

spending my time, as the saying goes, watching until the watching turns into feeling, so that I feel I am myself

A small bird with a terrible hunger, with a thin beak probing and dipping and a heart that races so fast

it is only a heart beat ahead of breaking—- and I am the hunger and assuagement, and also I am the leaves and the blossoms, and, like them, I am full of delight and shaking.”

~ Mary Oliver

Enjoy this beautiful day!

Mark C.

Saturday Shoppers Dream @ Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio | Jackson, Tennessee

April 27, 2019, 7:06 am
Filed under: Family time, Fountains, General Blog Entry's, God Bless America, Herbs, Hummingbirds, Koi, Koi Ponds, Lake and Pond, Landscaping & Gardening, Love, Nursery, Outdoor Lifestyles, Pondless Waterfalls, water garden, Waterfalls | Tags: Annuals, Aquatic Plants, Carters Nursery, Chicken Poop, Compost, Composted Manure, Koi, Koi Supplies, Mulch, Native Shrubs, Nurseryfix, Perennials, plants, Pond Supplies, Pottery, Sand, Shrubs, Top Soil, Trees

Spring is in Full Swing @ Carters Nursery! The Shrubs, Perennials & Annuals are gorgeous! We are fully stocked and we are ready to serve YOU!

LOTS of varieties of this staple plant!

Everything’s in Bloom at Carters Nursery!

Aquatic marginals, Lilies, Lotus – Check, check & check!

Lots of Annual Color!

Hanging baskets & LOTS of COLOR! | Saturday Shoppers at Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio | Jackson, Tennessee

The gates are opening now 😊 Y’all come get a little Nurseryfix!

Y’all come!

Mark Carter

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Friday Report… | Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio | Jackson, Tennessee

April 26, 2019, 8:24 am
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I am on assignment today & will not be making my normal Friday Radio appearance with the 180 Crew. BUT, still tune into 101.5fm to hear the “Best Show on Radio”!

Spring is in FULL swing! Enjoy your day 😊

Mark Carter

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Displays at Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio | Jackson, Tennessee

Have you been to Carters Nursery and walked through our Gardens & Water Garden displays? We have all sorts of ideas just waiting for you to discover! Waterfalls, Fountains, Koi Ponds, Outdoor Kitchens & more! You are invited to come by and visit, anytime during business hours – 9-5pm.

Come on by baby! I’ll give the Garden Tour of your life at Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio! Viva Las Waterfalls…

Check this little Water Garden display out. This one has been around for quite a while (25 years) & was my Grandma’s favorite 😊 We call it “Grandma’s Pond”.

Happy Pondering 🤔

Mark Carter
Carter’s Nursery, Pond & Patio
2846 Old Medina Rd.
Jackson, Tn. 38305
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Hump Day Koi Story | Could My Koi Be Lonesome? | Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio | Jackson, Tennessee

April 24, 2019, 5:49 am
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Hump Day Koi Story | Could My Koi Be Lonesome? | Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio | Jackson, Tennessee

I was thinking about a lady who came in a few weeks ago to look at some Koi. She has been here several times over the years and has became a regular customer during the season. She told us that over the winter she was visited by a Blue Heron… And you guessed it, it ate all her Koi – all but One! Her lone Koi has started to eat again now, but not like he used to… She described him as lethargic & almost disinterested in eating or swimming around and exploring. She said she was thinking about getting him some friends because she thinks he is lonely 😞 Then she asked me, “Can Koi get lonesome”?

Koi are definitely social creatures in my opinion. They seem to get along well and I’m almost certain they benefit from the company of other fish | Hump Day Koi Story | Could My Koi Be Lonesome? | Carters Nursery, Pond & Patio | Jackson,
Tennessee

I really enjoyed talking with her about this as we picked out 5 additional Koi to introduce to her Water Garden.

The rest of the story! – We spoke a few days later when she stopped by to grab a couple of bags of Koi Food. Her report was Awesome! The new fish acclimated well and started eating immediately! Her original Koi had warmed right up to the new guys and started eating like he was hungry again! To me that’s proof enough that Koi benefit from companionship. So do we 😊 Now she too, has several more new friends ❤️ Koi = Love!

Happy Pondering 🤔

Mark Carter

Carter’s Nursery, Pond & Patio

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