Marilynn Miller

Review of Bachmans

There might be less expensive stores for the thing...

There might be less expensive stores for the things they carry but I believe their plant stock is top notch and I have the least amount of die off from the plants I buy from them than from any other store. Besides their garden stock, they have a nice selection of plant containers, flowering (indoor) plants, small houseplants and terrarium plants. My husband got me a pot of blooming spring bulbs one Valentines Day that lasted for weeks and smelled wonderful. I don't shop their gift area much but it's definitely worth a look around if one is gift shopping (they also have a decent selection of greeting cards). In March, it's our yearly ritual - when we are totally fed up with winter - to go get some coffee and treats at Patrick's Cafe and sit in their greenhouse 'street cafe' area smelling greenery and flowers and watching the occasional sparrow that's found its way in - pretending, for a time, that spring has arrived. On the way out, we buy a flowering plant to help keep our spirits high till spring finally comes, for real, to Minnesota.