But you'll be sorry for what you missed.
click on any picture to embiggen
This Garden Centre grows all their own plants and flowers
and for a view into where your flowershop or grocery or corner store gets their flowering plants,
a view into a wholesale greenhouse
as we were leaving the Garden Centre we spotted a Red Tail Hawk.
all in all a lovely day.
all in all a lovely day.
Oh, yeah - and this is my 1st blogiversary!
Violet - what a beautiful place to visit. I love plants and flowers.
ReplyDeleteGeraniums remind me of my grandparents - they had climbing pink geraniums on the side of their house in Timaru, NZ.
Have a bloomin' happy day.
I love these pics. It certainly makes me want to go there.
ReplyDeleteI love going into greenhouses. It's intoxicating. Cook hawk - he's looking a bit ruffled. I like how they perch on utility poles like they own the world.
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely flowers...
ReplyDeleteHappy blogiversary, Sanna! The flowers are so lovely! That's what I need to do is visit my local garden center. They always have such beautiful ones.
ReplyDeleteLove that word: embiggen! I will be stealing that from you!
Pretty post! Happy Blogiversary! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogiversary!
ReplyDeleteThat garden center looks more vast than ours, and ours is huge! Ah, pure joy to be standing there. Maybe it's time to get over there, although Don is starting tons of seeds himself this year. Sunflowers galore for the wedding - thousands. And a veggie garden too.
Happy 1st blogiversary!
ReplyDeleteI actually love being surrounded by plants and flowers -
one of your pictures shows what will soon become my balcony flowers.
Enjoy the start of spring!
(Belgium: 15°C/60°F and blazing sunshine, for as long as it lasts ;-)
I'm not "planty" but I really like these pics. I am very birdy though so I love that last pic.
ReplyDeleteAnd happy blogiversary! And many more to come.
Very nice selections, my mom has Tiger Lillies in her front yard. The hawk is a great bonus..:-)
ReplyDeleteHappy blogiversary, VioletSky! Long may you blog!
ReplyDeleteAnd great flowery photos, too. (How is your little gnome-protected pot doing? Any blooms yet?)
Happy Blogaversary! Where is this place? When I lived in Toronto, I used to love going to their greenhouse thing in the park in the middle of winter. Outside it would be blowy and snowy and freezing cold and inside it was like a quiet, calm tropical rainforest. You'd shed your coat at the door and spend an hour or some soaking in the scents and sights and warmth
ReplyDeleteOh, Violet. I want to work there!
ReplyDeleteHappy blogiversary!
Happy Blogiversary!
ReplyDeleteLove the flower pictures. We have a great garden centre nearby, they also have a lovely cafe on site. Haven't been in ages. Your pictures make me want to go tomorrow!
Congrats on the Blogiversary :D
ReplyDeleteYour pictures of the greenhouse have my fingers itchy....
I remember the gorgeous gardens when I visited Christchurch, Delwyn - I've always wanted to go back for the scenery and the gardens!
ReplyDeleteJust planting a seed, so to speak, Geewits, and MedStudentWife.
Even when they aren't all blooming, Elsa, all that green is still beautiful to see!
Robin, you would LOVE it there. It looks such a happy place to work for - and buy from.
ReplyDeleteGo right ahead, Susan steal from me, (I stole from someone else!) Garden Centres usually make me happy, but this one is my new favourite. The wholesale greenhouse, Ruth, is enormous. Babaloo, I wish we had cafes in ours like you have.
ReplyDeleteThank you Hannah and Peter - do you have a large balcony? Ed, that hawk was a great last minurte surprise!
Not "planty" Jazz?! Is that because you would kill them with neglect? I was so excited about that hawk. Must start a bird list now. It was very windy, Citizen, so maybe that's why the ruffles.
ReplyDeleteMy little garden, Pinklea, is coming along - still only crocuses and muscari blooming. Will post photos later.
I was actually in Toronto today, XUP, and my friend and I talked about going to Allan Gardens while waiting out the evening rush hour, but we didn't. It is an oasis.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this lovely splash of spring...you did not disappoint and the photos are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBefore I moved to Haida Gwaii, BC I lived in London and I did Perigran Watch for fledglings hatched on the Canada Trust Tower. Living in Haida Gwaii we have an abundance of Eagles in our lives.
There is a wonderful live eagle cam on Vancouver Island you might like at http://www.hancockwildlifechannel.org/
Hornby Island 2 camera is in the middle of a fierce storm right now.
Have fun and smiles
Happy bloggoversary!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE flowers so would not have missed that garden centre! You have certainly caught the mood of it with your great photos.
Thanks for that link Carolyn, I'll check back when it is not 3:40AM!
ReplyDeleteThank you MaggieMay!
I forgot to answer your question, XUP - it's in NOTL beside the Welland Canal
A year of delightful posts. Thank you for the enjoyment you bring and congratulations for being so faithful, unlike some of us.
ReplyDeleteThe flowers are outstanding. Mom has twice brought huge bouquets of jonquils to brighten my house. i love flowers.
Ah, thank you miwise. I'm always glad to see you reappear. Now that I'm addicted to taking photgraphs everywhere I go, this blog may change focus for a bit... but without it, I'd probably not be taking any pics - I need to share and this is perfect.
ReplyDeleteLovely pictures. Did you get the "embiggen" from The Simpsons?
ReplyDeleteGuillaume, I'm now culturally savvy about its origins, but I'd seen it on other blogs.
ReplyDeleteHi Violet, wonderful pix. You would have enjoyed our Flower Show here in Christchurch recently.
ReplyDeleteIf you follow this link you can "cyber visit"...http://www.ellerslieflowershow.co.nz/
Gorgeous flowers - and what a wonerful hawk!
ReplyDeleteThese are all beautiful photos! So colorful and vibrant, with the hints of spring's beauty.
ReplyDeleteI love the photos of the hawk...nature's beauty.
Happy Anniversary! And who could possibly skip looking at Flowers...Especially after a long hard winter....That is a Great Great Nursery.....! I LOVE the Greenhouses....!
ReplyDeleteThank you for that link, Amanda, I long to go to an outdoor flower show...
ReplyDeleteI will never leave the house without my camera, Gilly!
Thank you Jew Wishes, I'm glad you stopped by.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Naomi - another April date to remember, I also have a few not so happy ones in April. Who could skip the flowers, indeed?!
Happy blogiversary, and what a happy post - thanks, Katie, xx
ReplyDeleteThank you Katie. It is always good to see you here over this past year.
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