Marj owns Perfect Posies Green Houses in Pincher Creek, Alberta:

Why would I recommend your grass seed to my customers? I tell them that growing ornamental grass is a great way to fill a flower bed - have year round enjoyment- and attracts the birds. I use the ornamental millet in flower arrangements- looks really nice with sun flowers or Rudbeckia. I love the Sudan grass for the ornamental heads and the impressive size! In the greenhouse we start the Mock Rush early and then put it in our planters instead of Dracaena - much more interesting looking! I don't have the flower shop any more but still love to arrange bouquets for my house and friends and I find that by adding a bit of grass it just "makes" the bouquet! I direct seed a lot of the grasses and they do fine - even in our windy country! Usually I leave them in the garden all winter and let the birds enjoy them too! I find they are a trouble free, natural way to enjoy gardening!

Marge Starke, Perfect Posies

Aeleen

Hello William Moore Farms! I must say I have been completely impressed and intrigued ever since I saw your card and promotion in the Harrowsmith magazine which I replied to and then received youÕre most gracious gift of seeds. Thank you so very much!

I didn't get the seeds planted last year, but I have started some canary seed early this year, just to see what happens and they have sprouted like gang busters, ready to be transplanted to their next pot! My husband and three sons will soon have to eat in another room until we can get the plants out to the greenhouse.

I have just ordered a few more packs of your seeds ... a few for my folks, a few more for me and a few to give as a door prize for our local Rivers In Bloom fashion show fundraiser on April 22nd. We are promoting 'green' growing at the show and I want to help people start thinking about ornamental grasses ... especially prairie ornamental grasses as an alternative to lawns.

I thank you so much for promoting yourself in such a wonderful way. I am sure you will find me to be a regular customer. I have been a prairie girl my whole life (hence my business name) and have always been passionate about country living in its entirety! I grew up at a country elevator siding called Floors, between Oak River and Rivers, Manitoba. My father was the grain buyer and also farmed at his birthplace, Pettapiece, Manitoba just four miles down the road. I loved every part of that life and you really brought back memories with the images you shared on the history link of your site. Wonderful.

My parents are elderly now and live in Rivers. My brother and I had a silhouette of a grain elevator created out of wrought iron as a name sign for their yard and for a while now have been trying to decide what to plant under the sign. I know now that your prairie ornamental grasses are the perfect plants to grace that space.

When we get it all together, planted and growing, I will send you a photo. Also just wanted to say that as a graphic artist and marketing consultant, your beautifully designed logo, card, catalogue, seed package design, web site and whole marketing approach has been nothing short of brilliant! So very inspiring ~ hats off to your designers. So, thanks for everything William Moore Farms... may you continue many more years in fine tradition!

Happy spring, Aeleen

I received the "Pure Prairie" insert (very nicely produced)  in my recent Harrowsmith. I look forward to my free gift -- if I was fast enough. I'll tell you what the real gift was, though...I looked at the 40-photo history of your family. I'm feeling a little choked up -- thanks for what you do. 
From a middle-aged suburban mother of two who grows her own veggies in the summer and works in a health store part-time.

Audrey Morgan

I received our Harrowsmith Country Living in the mail today and was quiet eager to go on your web site to view your grasses. On a personal note, I wanted to say how much I truly enjoyed browsing through your family history!  What a rich heritage you have to pass on to your children.  Your photos bring back fond memories of my grandparents who had a dairy farm outside of Goderich, Ontario and I spent much time there while growing up.  Your photos catch images of experiences long since gone but still vividly alive in the treasure trove of memories I've tucked away in my heart and mind down through the years.  I can almost "smell" the new calves, the fields where the combine would stir up the dust while doing its work, the frost on the ornamental grasses - the snow that covered the goose up on the hay stack in that May snow storm!  The warm haze that filters through the summer air that makes one sleepy - you've captured all these things in your display - images that I think only those who ever spent any extended time in the country can truly appreciate these images....thank you!
I've never been out west but hope one day to venture out through the provinces and see the mountains.  It is a trip my husband and I hope to experience sometime in the next few years.
Whether I'll be one of your recipients to receive an ornamental grass sample or not, just know that I have enjoyed your website so much so, that if I am over the 500 request #, just being able to enjoy your website has been as much of a "gift" as receiving your sample.
Thank you so very much for sharing your lives with us!

Sincerest regards,
Catherine Douglass

We planted a few types of your ornamental grasses, in flower pots this year
and moved them around the yard as the season progressed and each grew taller.
We were testing out where wanted to locate an ornamental grass bed in our "half done" yard. 
(You weren't kidding about the height of the Sudan grass - it really did end up 5 ft tall and very sturdy! Fabulous!)

My husband went wild over the golden foxtail millet when it turned a gorgeous, bright, bronze red in the fall and now it looks outstanding against the little bit of snow we just got. .....He wants to "plant it along the whole side yard" in the spring.

Thank you and Regards,
Diane P.McLennan
Edmonton, AB.

I loved planting Pure Prairie Ornamental Grasses seeds in my garden last year.  It was so much fun having oats and wheat and canary seed growing in my own front yard.  I have a lot of Ornamental perennial grasses already – I love Ornamental grasses!  So, with Pure Prairie’s grasses, I dug myself an eight by eight foot bed and planted my seeds in rows. I had my own little prairie field right there outside my Calgary window. 

Carolyn Fleming
Publisher,
Bloom – Calgary’s Garden and Outdoor Living Magazine

I enjoyed reading your article in the most recent Gardens West magazine.
The thought of using grasses from the farm in my garden has never once entered my mind.  You made me change my thinking!! Thank you.

Gwendolyn Hrycak
Kindersley, SK

I received your mailing card featuring Prairie fields grasses.
When I read and viewed the pictures I was reminded of my mother. She passed away this week and the picture of the tractor on the open field made me think of her. Her family was from Saskatchewan with wide open fields too. I have a seasonal job at a garden centre in Orillia, Ontario and will be looking for ornamental grasses soon.

Thanks for making my day a bit brighter.

Dawna Rientsma

I would just like to tell you how much I enjoyed growing your ornamental grains & grasses last year! I tried one of each variety and despite it being a very wet year, things grew very well. I have a flower shop in High River, Alberta and we used much of the product fresh mixed in with our flower bouquets. It was beautiful! Some of it I bundled in mixed bunches and just put them out to dry. They looked great on the dining room able all fall. I look forward to this years growing season and will probably double my production.

Marge Starke
Perfect Posies

Thank you for your efforts in maintaining the stewardship of our land. I have not had the pleasure of seeing a prairie field in person, but during my part-time studies at University (working on an Environmental Studies degree) I have seen many photos in books and movies on this wonderful landscape. There is something so natural and romantic about these grasses swaying in the wind. As a farmer, I know there is hard work involved and sometimes it is not the 'romantic' ideal haven that others perceive it. Your love and sweat and efforts to continue the original dream of survival of your grandparents make it more precious.

Have a good day.

Julie