Flower Buying Time in Vermont, USA

Every spring when I see the brown grass emerging under the snow, I think of one thing, flowers! The brown grass will only turn into green grass which means soon it will be time to put flowers in the ground!

When I first started learning about flowers, I didn’t even know the difference between perennials and annuals. I remember being in a room of people and those terms were being thrown around as casually as bread and butter. I sat there and tried to look confident amoungst my peers, only to slip out the door and google the difference the first chance I got. Google told me perennials are the type of flowers that will keep coming up again over and over every spring. Annuals are the flowers that will only survive one season. There is so much I could say about which type of flowers one can put together, matching different bloom times throughout spring, summer and fall or flower combinations. One could spend a life time getting degrees, reading books and becoming a flower expert.

I am not a flower expert, but Donna is, so now we go together every year when it’s time to buy flowers!

Once a year Donna and I get to go to our version of a kids candy store:

The Cabot Greenhouse!!!

We had planned this outing and scheduled it onto the calendar weeks prior. I think you can see we were pretty excited.

Locally owned by Vicki and Gary, the Cabot Greenhouse has been a family run business since 1989.

If you buy a plant from the Cabot Greenhouse, you know your plants have been personally cared for, looked after, moved around for the best sun and lovingly watered.

They also have a lady working for them with the one of the coolest tattoos ever. I loved her tattoo so much I asked if it was ok to take some photos of it. She kindly let me move her arm all around trying out different lighting for the shot.

I loved all the work stations throughout the greenhouses. These are the places where beautiful creations come to life.

And our newest favorite flower this season – this Petunia!

I took this photo of their check out area and kept just staring at it for what felt like forever trying to figure out why I like it so much. Maybe it’s because there is no conveyor belt like there would be if you bought flowers from Wal-Mart. Or the red pen in the foreground? I still don’t know exactly. I just know, to me, this what I want it to feel like when I check out to buy flowers.

Area after area just kept going with plants.

How cool to have this as your back yard!

 The Cabot Greenhouse and Nursery is one of several awesome small businesses in this area to support.

So get yourself to your local green house this spring. They are sure to have some proven winners for you. If you are unsure about what to plant, how to plant or where to plant, ask your local greenhouse. Running a greenhouse is tremendous labor of love. If they weren’t passionate about it, they wouldn’t be doing it. Ask them questions, support a local business, plant some flowers, help the bees and watch the goodness grow around you. You might just get to know your neighbors a little bit better in the process.

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If you go:

Cabot Greenhouse and Nursery 1469 RT 215 South, Cabot Vermont 05647 T: 802-563-2078

*Editors note: this post is the sole opinion of Vagabond Way and there are no other associations with this post.*