Local Small Business, My Garden, Wins National Stepables® Contest

July 23, 2009 - PRLog -- MILL CREEK, WA - On Sunday July 26th at 10:00am the owner of Stepables® will visit My Garden in Mill Creek, Washington to present them with a $2,500 prize-winning check for their amazing Stepables® display located just through the entrance of their nursery.  The check will ultimately benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Alzheimer’s Association.

Stepables® are creeping plants that grow about 2-4” creating a pleasant, low vertical plane typically associated with a lawn, plus they are sturdy enough to handle foot traffic. The Stepables® line of more than 140 creeping perennial varieties, provide solutions for troublesome landscapes.

The winning display is fun, brightly colored and all about Stepables® ground covers, plants you can walk on. People smile when they see the display of two life size moss people planted with Stepables®. The moss people are standing on either side of a stone path. Growing around the stones are some of the great varieties of Stepables®. You can see the winning display at My Garden Nursery, 20 minutes north of Seattle in Mill Creek, through this fall.

The prize is $2500 for the winners favorite charity. At My Garden they have two charities that they fund-raise for and so are dividing the prize equally with $1250 going to Alzheimer’s Association Western WA Chapter for research and $1250 going to the Puget Sound Affiliate Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Co-owner Jenny Gunderson has a good reason for wanting to use My Garden Nursery as a catalyst to raise money to stop Alzheimer’s. Both her mom and dad had the sad disease. Jenny currently is going through treatment for breast cancer but believes her cancer is a blessing if it means she doesn’t get Alzheimer’s. “Even if I lose my fight with cancer I will lose it loving and knowing my friends and family”. When a person has Alzheimer’s they go through devastating grief as they slowly lose the ability to function and then to recognize and love the people they are closest to. Their loved ones also go through an early, long and agonizing grieving process watching the Alzheimer’s victim mentally and emotionally drift away knowing there is nothing they can do. My Garden Nursey and its customers have raised over $10,000 for Alzheimer’s research to date.

Read more about My Garden at http://www.mygardennursery.com or contact Jenny Gunderson at My Garden at 425-402-1842 or 17414 Bothell Everett HWY Mill Creek, WA 98012.

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My Garden is a full service nursery focusing on smaller gardens. The nursery features an amazing selection of smaller trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals, as well as tons of unique gift items and locally-made garden art. Opening in November of 2006, My Garden has become a unique 4 acre garden center full of fabulous displays and colorful combinations that are constantly updated to keep with the seasons and holidays. My Garden has three Master Gardeners and Two Certified Professional Horticulturists to assist with gardening queries. Several designers are also available to help create fabulous containers or full gardens. For convenience, My Garden also has a post office on-site.