{"id":7138,"date":"2018-05-11T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2018-05-11T09:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:52:51","slug":"meet-bob-or-hey-sunday-is-mothers-day-did-you-get-your-hanging-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2018\/05\/11\/meet-bob-or-hey-sunday-is-mothers-day-did-you-get-your-hanging-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Bob (or: Hey, Sunday is Mother\u2019s Day, Did You Get Your Hanging Plant?!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20180511desmarais\"<\/p>\n

Location: Minnehaha Falls Nursery,\u00a04461 Minnehaha Ave<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bob Lindgren is the owner of Minnehaha Falls Nursery, along with his wife, Jennifer. The original owner was,\u00a0Bob Lindgren, Sr. The building\u00a0was a grocery store and a nursery before the Lindgren\u2019s purchased the property. The family owned the nursery business since 1957 but moved into this location in 1967. The whole family lived in the house (physically attached to the store) for many years until early\/mid 70s when the family moved out.\u00a0\u00a0Initially the house was a rental but soon became a part of the business as the offices.\u00a0\u00a0In 2001, Bob and Jennifer bought both the nursery and landscaping businesses.\u00a0\u00a0Last fall the landscaping business was sold, with apparent relief from Bob who acknowledges that after all he has a wife, and kids (all doing their own great things) and there was the snow removal… Bob and Jennifer have three boys, all hockey players (following in Dad\u2019s footsteps), two of which are pro.\u00a0\u00a0Bob and Jennifer moved back to the area after years in Lakeville \u2013 now living in Nokomis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, it\u2019s a busy time at the nursery with deliveries as many as three a day.\u00a0\u00a0I caught Bob just after helping unload a delivery taking him three hours.\u00a0\u00a0By late June, this will all quiet down to perhaps a delivery a day \u2013 at which time, annuals will be done, shrubs and trees will be of more interest, and the live plants will be combined up on the top level of the yard.\u00a0\u00a0When the growing season is over, the nursery stays open for the array of nick-nacky lovelies for the planter in your life.\u00a0\u00a0Fall evolves into firewood and that remains for the colder seasons\u200b, until the holidays bring trees and wreaths, and preparation for the new year!<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob and Jennifer updated the store over the past winter with design and color.\u00a0\u00a0The colors are rich and enhance the wood d\u00e9cor. The resident cats are there and the store is open to dogs and their owners.\u00a0\u00a0Oh, and it\u2019s Mother\u2019s Day on Sunday\u2026and they have hanging plants!<\/p>\n

\u00a0@MinnehahaFallsNursery<\/p>\n

www.minnehahafallsnursery.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Jean Des Marais<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob’s got you (ground)covered at Minnehaha Falls Nursery. Photo: Jean Des Marais.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1258,2,217,545,418,1393,10,1507,861,661,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}