April Showers Bring Mother's Day Flowers

It's the season for flowers here in New England, and I've been enjoying watching everything outdoors start to bud. In my backyard, the cheerful yellow forsythia is the first to bloom, with my other flowers just starting to recover from the winter months. Soon, I'll have pink and white bleeding hearts, red roses, lilies, morning glories and plenty of wildflowers in my overgrown garden. I've been working indoors as well, growing seedlings for a vegetable garden and trying to save a marked-down "distressed" moth orchid that needs a whole lot of tender care.

As much as I love outdoor flowers Mothers Day is just around the corner, and my struggling orchid isn't going to cut it. There won't be enough of my own blooms in just a few weeks to make my own gift, and putting together a gift from the local shops or the grocery store can get pretty expensive. One place I like to get pre-made arrangements from is 1-800 Flowers, which has plenty of lovely affordable gifts, and saves me the trouble of shopping. With an easy gift of flowers Mothers Day can be a lot less stressful, and your mother will appreciate the professional touch put into the 1-800 Flowers bouquets.