{"id":18243,"date":"2013-05-29T17:08:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T22:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=18243"},"modified":"2013-05-29T17:08:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T22:08:15","slug":"a-visit-to-the-garden-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=18243","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to the Garden Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Don’t you just love browsing in a garden center during growing season? \u00a0I know that I do. \u00a0Last week our garden club had its monthly meeting at a local family-run greenhouse, and it was pure eye candy.<\/h3>\n

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Even though we have a limited amount of planting space in our courtyard<\/a>, I sure love flowers.<\/h3>\n

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Each plant was saying, “You know you want me.”<\/h3>\n

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They had all kinds of plants in flats ready for purchase, grouped in hanging baskets, and in individual pots.<\/h3>\n

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I have two of these planters hanging on our garage wall, but unfortunately, a dove family has made their temporary home there. \u00a0So, I know already that our planters won’t be looking like this planter in 2013.<\/h3>\n

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They had several kinds of ferns including one that does not lose its leaves in the winter and one that had fronds resembling a rabbit’s paw. \u00a0I thought that one was somewhat creepy.<\/h3>\n

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They even had indoor plants like this lush jade plant.<\/h3>\n

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A rose by any other name…….<\/h3>\n

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Doesn’t this man-made waterfall look natural?<\/h3>\n

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Even this concrete heron looks real.<\/h3>\n

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There were lots of little seating areas that were inviting to both the birds and the people.<\/h3>\n

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Maybe I need one of these for our courtyard so the doves won’t occupy the planters.<\/h3>\n

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I loved the rustic bent willow chairs.<\/h3>\n

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This young lady was not for sale. \u00a0She provided customer service in the form of purring. \u00a0She looks just like a cat Jordan used to own. \u00a0R.I.P. “Paisley.”<\/h3>\n

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Take care.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t you just love browsing in a garden center during growing season? \u00a0I know that I do. \u00a0Last week our garden club had its monthly meeting at a local family-run greenhouse, and it was pure eye candy.   Even though we have a limited amount of planting space in our courtyard, I sure love flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18243"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18272,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions\/18272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}