{"id":991,"date":"2008-06-05T20:23:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T01:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/06\/05\/fruit-flowers\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:59:49","slug":"fruit-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/06\/05\/fruit-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit &#038; Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/06\/fruiterie.jpg\" title=\"Fruiterie YM\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/06\/fruiterie.jpg\" alt=\"Fruiterie YM\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2008\/06\/03\/unsung-city-beautifiers-fruit-flower-shops\/\">this great post<\/a> by Leah Sandals over on the Toronto Spacing blog, I&#8217;ve been thinking about those wonderful gems of depanneurs that keep a bounty of potted plants and cut flowers through the summer season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/06\/fruiterie2.jpg\" title=\"Fruiterie YM\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/06\/fruiterie2.jpg\" alt=\"Fruiterie YM\" style=\"float: right; padding-left: 6px;\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a>My favourite in Montreal is Fruiterie YM at Bernard and de l&#8217;Esplanande in Mile End. I first noticed this little shop one morning in May, as I sat with a friend eating brunch in the window of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senzala.com\">Senzala Restaurant<\/a> across the street. For at least an hour a man from YM Fruiterie worked outside, watering and rearranging and pruning his flowers. It was really impressive \u2014 although I&#8217;m sure selling flowers is a profitable endeavour for a depanneur, when you consider the amount of labour that goes into keeping racks of plants full of life and attractive to customers, the margin narrows.<\/p>\n<p>My theory is that for people like the owners of Fruiterie YM, it&#8217;s a labour of love. While I confess that I&#8217;ve not the world&#8217;s greenest thumb, it gives me a little bit of joy to see a bucket bursting with gerbera daisies or catch the scent of aromatic herbs. 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