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Last-Minute Mother's Day Gift Ideas
Mother's Day is right around the corner, but it's still not too late to wow the ones you love with a great gift
OK, you knew for weeks that Mother's Day was this Sunday. However, you still have yet to find that perfect way to say "I love you, Mom."
Don't sweat it. Patch has five places where you can go to purchase that last minute gift that could be the perfect for you mom, grandmom, wife or other relative.
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Richardson's Farm - 5900 Ebenezer Road, White Marsh - (410) 335-8837
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Info: Features a 7,000-square-foot greenhouse, open to the public selling annuals, perennials, and vegetable plants, including a great selection of hanging baskets, herbs and perennials. They stock several exotic varieties of basil, thyme and mint, as well as the good old fashioned ones. Your mom or grandmom would love to have a collection of these herbs, and you can enjoy the delicious delicacies that she cooks using them. The staff at Richardson's five other greenhouses start seedlings locally, allowing them to offer much lower priced than even the big box stores. Your mom or wife would love the locally grown hanging baskets and pots.
Spa on The Avenue - 8165 Honeygo Blvd White Marsh (410) 931-1130
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Info: A full-service day spa located on “The Avenue” in White Marsh. Your mom, wife or grandmom would love to be pampered by the fully trained staff, get them a nice gift card and they can chose whether to get hair care, nail care, waxing, or a massage
Rosedale Gardens - 8037 Philadelphia Road, Rosedale
Info: Rosedale Volunteer Fire Company Annual Mother's Day Chicken Dinner. Wow your mom at this buffet style family dinner including, homemade baked chicken, vegetables, rolls, desserts, coffee, tea, orange drink. Donation: Adults: $10, Seniors (55 and over) $8, Children (5 to 12) $6. Also featuring prize, flower and cake wheels.
Children’s Playhouse of Maryland at the Community College of Baltimore County, Essex,
The Sound of Music opens at the Community College of Baltimore County Essex, at 1 p.m. weekends May 7-8, in the J Building Lecture Hall. Tickets are $10 general admission and available from the CCBC Box Office at 443-840-ARTS (2787) Take your mom, grandmom, wife and kids to this performance on its opening weekend. The play will run the following two weekends.
Hampton National Historic Site, 535 Hampton Lane Towson (410) 823-1309
Visit Hampton on Mother's Day for a free 20 minute carriage ride around the grounds of Hampton National Historic Site. Free tickets are distributed by park staff on the day of the ride. Tickets are typically distributed at noon on a first come-first served basis. The rides start at 12:30 p.m.. Rides are offered every 20 minutes from 1 to 4 p.m. Take your family on a trip back in time as you ride in a period carriage around the grounds of this sedate Georgian mansion, elegantly furnished and settled amid gardens and shade trees. Built as a country seat just after the Revolutionary War by a prominent Maryland family, the house and its immediate surroundings are just a remnant of the Hampton estate of the early 1800s.