Every year I buy many Easter-type flowers (potted bulb plants) for some people in our life-day care, family, etc. I wanted to get them today, but whatever I decide to do today, I have both boys with me which always presents it’s own little challenges. Many times in public I hear “Boy, you’ve got your hands full with those two!” or “I bet those two keep you busy!” Yes, yes they do. And they add several degrees of difficulty on to any errand.

Nevertheless, I wanted to go to Rosazza’s. I always get them as Rosazza’s. They have the most beautiful plants around, reasonably priced, you know how I love to support local merchants, and they have a dog for my kids to play with. For all those reasons & more…..I always go to Rosazza’s. Now, having been there many times, I knew about the setup.

I knew that if I parked at the end of the greenhouse, I was going to have to walk down through the greenhouse, twice. Once with just the boys, and then back again with the boys and whatever I purchased. And it’s not like you can put this stuff in a bag, right? Still, this is what I was greeted with when we entered-rows and rows of beautiful flowers that instantly lift any mood. And we walked. But the sweet peas and the snapdragons and geraniums were just beautiful! So much color! These photos are lifted from their website.

Got down to the end, where the register is, and told Mr. Rosazza what I wanted. He didn’t have what I wanted right there, as they are packing everything up on trucks to go out to the tent on 41. The tent will be open Friday through Sunday I believe.

“Come with me,” he said and beckoned the three of us to follow him. So we did follow him. Through several buildings, past a big ledge with a fence that had areas where either child could slip down into the pond (!) so that scared me because Brian is very fast and Kevin is very clumsy……and then through another long greenhouse passage, which was completely grown up on both sides with flowers. Brian loved it; he was having the time of his life.

Kevin, on the other hand, decided this was too scary for him, he didn’t want to walk down that passageway, and thought this would be a good time for him to have a small freak-out tantrum. I personally was LOVING the forced geraniums, which reminded me that summer is not too far off! Kevin got about a third of the way down and stopped, refusing to walk any further. Mind you, it was very tight in there and even Mr. Rosazza was walking sideways a bit to fit through there. But now I had to carry Kevin.

It was worth it, we ended up down in a dark room with lots of dirty and dangerous-looking things for Brian to play with. Jenny the dog had followed us down there, so Kevin was fine now. I got several various-sized pots of beautiful bulbs. This of course created another problem, in that now we had to trek all the way back.

Luckily, following the dog was enough of a distraction for Kevin, so he walked back through all the greenhouses quite pleasantly. Brian, still having a great time, ran too far ahead of me and out of the building. He never made it closer than 6-7 feet of the fence (which led to the pond) but that was still to close for my comfort. He’s in waaaayyyy too curious a stage right now to be out of my sight.

Back to the greenhouse, got foil on the pots, paid for them, boys said goodbye to Jenny the dog and we left. One more long trek through a greenhouse and we were on our way.

So if you think that stopping along-side of Route 41 to get plants is treacherous–going directly to the greenhouse may be even more work. I highly recommend you check them out, they have beautiful things and they are quite affordable. I can’t wait to go back for my summer annuals.