Oh Sweet Mystery of Life At Last I Found You....

*knocks dust off blog*
The Christmas Holiday season is over, the weather has started to warm up, we've actually has a couple of days of no rain and everyone in the house is well. With the time to sit and think, I decided to look for a local nursery that might be able to assist me. I really like the ease of Lowe's but I swear, I have never experienced a knowledgeable sales clerk in their landscaping/gardening area. I found Shoal Creek Nursery so I decided to go by and pick someone's brain. I explained that I know nothing about gardening and that our backyard is a wreck because we've done some renovations over the years. We/I am trying to completely redesign our backyard but I'm doing it a little bit at a time because we can't afford to do it all at once and I don't want to pay a professional to do it. I want hands on in planning the backyard because guess who is going to take care of it. I described to the guy whose name I completely forgot to get the little corner of the yard that I'm starting on and told him that I'm looking for some ground cover. He gave me this nifty little free booklet they have called Native and Adapted Landscape Plants and suggested some of groundcover. Specifically, Leadwort Plumbago, Asian Jasmine and Silver Ponyfoot. He said that they don't carry groundcover until Mid-March (after the last frost) so take my time and do my research and see which one I like.

I did stop by Lowe's early today and dang is that a dangerous place. They have all these herbs and vegetables and fruit trees that just look really good. I could feel my eyes glazing over and my hand seemed to reach for my pocketbook all on it's own. I shook myself out of the self-induced glaze and have been putting up roadblocks to keep me from going back. I do want to buy some herbs, the hard freezes we did get killed my little basil plant and I want to get some bay leaves as well. But dang, it looked so tempting to buy some onion bulbs and some garlic bulbs and those lettuce and spinach seedling starters looked so enticing! Some day my love, some day!