At 4:00 pm on Mother’s Day, I had 3 customers in a row ask me if we had any cut flowers. We had scads and scads of them just 2 days earlier, but come on – REALLY? To ask for Mother’s Day flowers in the middle of the afternoon on Mother’s Day? Even if we had any left (we did not), they’d be getting the worst-looking ones – the ones everyone else rejected. But we did get a bunch of new plants on Saturday, which they kept inside the store for people to buy for Mother’s Day. We got hibiscus and manadevilla vines (not sure how that is spelled) and some other stuff. As of 6:00 when my shift was over, we had sold all but 2 of the orchids we had up front. So many last-minute shoppers for Mother’s Day! That table was full of orchids on Friday.
On another note, despite having an overnight low temperature on Friday night into the mid 20’s, all of our plants survived the night! It was a lot of work bringing plants inside and covering the rest, but it was worth it having everything pull through. I was not happy to see the SNOW falling for an hour or more on Sunday afternoon, but it didn’t stick. What did stick only stayed for about an hour before it melted. But it rained and snowed pretty much all day. Just a really lousy weather day. Things are looking up, though. They predicted a low around 30° for Sunday night, but I don’t think it’s getting that cold (it’s 2:00 in the morning now). Just one more night (Monday night) they think we could get frost, then we’ll start having low temps in the 40’s.
At 4:00 pm on Mother’s Day, I had 3 customers in a row ask me if we had any cut flowers. We had scads and scads of them just 2 days earlier, but come on – REALLY? To ask for Mother’s Day flowers in the middle of the afternoon on Mother’s Day? Even if we had any left (we did not), they’d be getting the worst-looking ones – the ones everyone else rejected. But we did get a bunch of new plants on Saturday, which they kept inside the store for people to buy for Mother’s Day. We got hibiscus and manadevilla vines (not sure how that is spelled) and some other stuff. As of 6:00 when my shift was over, we had sold all but 2 of the orchids we had up front. So many last-minute shoppers for Mother’s Day! That table was full of orchids on Friday.
On another note, despite having an overnight low temperature on Friday night into the mid 20’s, all of our plants survived the night! It was a lot of work bringing plants inside and covering the rest, but it was worth it having everything pull through. I was not happy to see the SNOW falling for an hour or more on Sunday afternoon, but it didn’t stick. What did stick only stayed for about an hour before it melted. But it rained and snowed pretty much all day. Just a really lousy weather day. Things are looking up, though. They predicted a low around 30° for Sunday night, but I don’t think it’s getting that cold (it’s 2:00 in the morning now). Just one more night (Monday night) they think we could get frost, then we’ll start having low temps in the 40’s.