{"id":9913,"date":"2023-05-15T15:29:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2023-05-15T15:29:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:29:17","slug":"we-had-our-mothers-day-greenhouse-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/05\/15\/we-had-our-mothers-day-greenhouse-excursion\/","title":{"rendered":"We had our Mother’s Day greenhouse excursion"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, part of our family gathered for our annual excursion to Byrnes Greenhouse near Zim, Minnesota. David and his family plus Bill and his family joined us to have fun and pick up some nice, inexpensive, wonderful hanging baskets and other plants. Yes, I have started some from seed but I’m kind of addicted to flowers you see. They always perk me up when I walk outside. And, on days I’m so very tired, just seeing beauty gives me energy enough to go on. Granddaughter, Delilah, loved the flowers and kept telling everyone to “smell this one.” Bill drove his truck. That way, he had plenty of room for all Kelly Jo and Ava picked out. Ava has her own fairy garden while Mason has his dragon garden. All in all, everyone had fun, enjoyed seeing all the beautiful flowers and each other. Afterward, we went to nearby Cotton, to have a late lunch at Wilbert’s Cafe, where they have the best food in the state. Not only did we over-do it on flower buying, but also eating! They don’t stint on helpings there!<\/p>\n

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Grandson, Mason, showing granddaughter, Delilah, how tall she will grow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here we are, all stocked up on car (or truck) loads of flowers and plants as well as food from the cafe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, it’s back to normal, with me having a pile of plants to get in the ground and in the greenhouse to wait for frost-free weather. Even though we had 80 degrees F yesterday, we’re still expecting that sneaky late spring frost. Darn it! Our own flower beds are shouting color now, with daffodils of all colors. The peonies are coming up and will be blooming before too long \u2014 I’m so excited!<\/p>\n

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he fishpond garden has lots of blooming daffodils.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And my “fish” are now swimming among flowering daffodils, waiting for the daylilies to bloom later on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will’s hauling more manure and has given the Main Garden a good tilling. We’ll be tilling it twice more to keep the weed population down, once after manure has been spread and once just before planting. All the plants in the greenhouse are astounding and I can’t wait to start planting outside. After that frost, that is! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, part of our family gathered for our annual excursion to Byrnes Greenhouse near Zim, Minnesota. David and his family plus Bill and his family joined us to have fun and pick up some nice, inexpensive, wonderful hanging baskets and other plants. Yes, I have started some from seed but I’m kind of addicted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9918,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions\/9918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}