Shopping in Framingham

No matter the season, Wagon Wheel Nursery and Farmstand helps homeowners spruce up the household with seasonal decor, flowers, fruit baskets, and produce. In the nursery and garden center and award-winning landscape division, you can find annual and perennial flowers and shrubbery. There’s also brick, stone, or gravel to accentuate your yard or theater production of The Three Little Pigs. In fall, the nursery stocks healthy supply of pumpkins. Come by in the colder months and Wagon Wheel becomes an outpost for seasoned firewood, as well as holiday decor such as fraser and balsam fir Christmas trees and custom-made decorated wreaths and kissing balls.

The dedicated team members at Boston Ski + Tennis prepare patrons for the slopes or courts with equipment, tune-ups, and apparel. Since 1977, the staff have carefully selected their inventory by testing various brands on frosty and fast surfaces. Ski jackets and snow pants from Obermeyer, Marmot, and Sessions line the store's shelves, along with tennis shoes and rackets that can be used as snowshoes when walking home from mountaintop matches. The staff also apply wax to ski bottoms to help them glide over snowy runs and regrip or restring tennis rackets to make them feel new and powerful.

By answering any and all questions about their erotic wares, the staffers at Amazing Intimate Essentials have helped promote safe and sensual trysts for more than 40 years. Their selection of massage oils, lubricants, and adult toys—which occupies stores spread throughout the Northeast and Texas—contains goods from such established brands as We-Vibe, Jimmyjane, and K-Y. They staff female-friendly merchandise, as well as products that help couples create more sparks in the bedroom than a master metalworker soldering a "do not disturb" sign to the door. The staff stresses openness and acceptance in regards to romantic endeavors, an attitude that also fuels their unwavering support of the LGBT community.