Colby's Wishing Star pins or keychains are also available for $3.00 USD or $4.00 CDN
Just add it to your order sheet. All money from the pins and keychains goes exclusively for helping fund work on the Colby Wishing Star Park
These pins and keychains were designed by Carolyn Ann Torlot a jewelry designer and lifetime friend of ours.
 Our plan at our new farm is to construct a special park for handicapped children all sales from this lilac will go exclusively to help the construction of the park which we will start this year in 2003. The park will be wheelchair accessible and will have a variety of games, and sensory experiences to learn about fragrances and textures. The park will be open to families with handicapped children only. We have realized in the last months how little there is for children with special needs. Select Plus will maintain this park at it's expense in the future and we hope to have something special that families in the immediate area and all around can come and see as well as our future world class lilac collection in the spring.
Anyone who purchases a Colby's Wishing Star will also get a special commenmorative pin of the lilac mailed to them as well.
Seeing handicapped children in the past for us was something we could not have identified any idea what parent's must have gone through on a daily basis. Now we realize that these parents are super beings and their children heroes to have the strength and courage to meet daily challenges.
Through the power of the web we have had lots of encouragement and have had the chance to learn about two special little twin girls that have Down's also named Brianna and Cassandra. Hopefully when the park is officially inaugerated they will be able with their parents to be present.
We have had only great responses for the park and hope that the community and governments will help us with this special project.
Colby has been an inspiration to our family and we hope many of you will raise to a good cause that we feel will be one of the first parks in North America of this sort.

An Update on the Park

2 acres of land cleared for the park with many good shade trees conserved of a nice size diameter. We have applied for a non profit organization and the Park and organization will be called Colby's Wishing Star Park.

May 26 2004 the official incorporation of the non profit park is registered.
July 15: Well summer is in full swing and our new farm construction is under way. 2 acres of stumps have been removed, the pond is dug 40 x 120 and 10ft deep with a great reserve of water in it only 2 days after being dug. The fence starts next week and warehouse and beds and garden center area to follow in August. A lilac garden, peony garden, hosta and daylily garden will be installed also this fall. lso as of May 26 2004 our non profit park for handicapped children was officially incorporated. Colby's Wishing Star Park was born!!!
We will be looking for donations and sponsors for this unique idea. a complete plan will be up shortly.
On July 23 our first lilac was planted "Colby's Wishing Star"