Rain and late frosts

This weekend is disgusting. The temperature at night flirts with freezing, and the days are gloomy, windy, cold, and rainy. There’s just nothing to be done outdoors–nothing at all. Indoors, we can sit and plan, and peek hopefully out of windows into the mostly-empty garden beds that hold so much promise, but that are so very far out of reach…

And those of us who are naughty, greedy, and/or ill-advised can take ourselves to the garden center to buy plants anyway. That’s what I did yesterday. The gardening center is putting out lots of plants far before their appropriate season, and paradoxically, the plants are being sold at an astronishing rate. The veined pink petunias I like so much are practically gone, the English daisies wiped out, and I grabbed the last two of the deep blue pulmonaria shown above. Aren’t they lovely? I just adore bicolor flowers. Sorry the pic is a little fuzzy, my camera couldn’t quite pull in close enough to get a full-screen shot of those tiny flowers.

I also, very much against my better judgment, bought this year’s lot of snapdragons. They will live near the window in my garage for a few days, until things seem to warm up a bit. Ditto the pulmonaria.

Aren’t the snapdragons fabulous? I think you’ll agree that it was worth buying them early to make absolutely sure that I got some of them. I thought that I had the best snapdragons ever last summer, but now I know that I was wrong. I have the best snapdragons ever this summer.