Mother’s Day Fun

Things have been so crazy here that I decided that Russ & I would start celebrating Mother’s Day yesterday with a morning date to buy some flowers.

This year I seem to have (in addition to my inability to stay away from the rose place) a longing for gerber daisies.  I have pink gerbers on my deck,



and I have been totally coveting the yellow and red gerbers in front of Kroger,

but I have not wanted to spend the $12.99 to buy them.

Then Martha told me that I should go get my gerbers at a place called Multiflora Greenhouse, a wholesale & retail greenhouse in Hillsborough.  She promised me that I would get much more gerber bang for my buck.

So Saturday morning Russ put the top down on the convertible and we were off.

It was a beautiful day for a drive.  Russ had spent a little time with Google Maps and found a wonderful back way to drive.  We smelled honeysuckle all along the way.



We passed lots of farms with cows and horses.



We even discovered a new strawberry farm at the corner of New Sharon Church Road & Terry.  (They also have grassfed beef for sale.)

But the highlight of the trip was definitely the greenhouse.  Wow!  They have more plants than I’ve ever seen in my life, and amazing prices.  I was worried at first that they didn’t have gerbers, but it turned out that we were just in the wrong greenhouse.  When we finally got to the right greenhouse this is what we saw.



The best part was when we got to the checkout place, and the woman informed me that buying the six I had selected would actually be more expensive than buying 8!  Of course we went back and got 2 more!
Here is Russ pulling our “shopping cart.”



Next year I’ll be doing all of my spring flower shopping at Multiflora.  The address is 1623 New Sharon Church Road, if you’re interested.  (They also have lots of mums and pansies in the fall, and zillions of poinsettias at Christmas.)

Thanks for the great tip, Martha!