Beautiful Weather for Plant Shopping & Planting

The Riverview Garden Club held a plant sale where I found plants donated by the Riverview Flower Farm.  What a wonderful surprise that was!  I'm not a member of this group just a happy, happy customer. The Sedum Florida Gold on the right is one of my greatly desired plants for this year's garden.  This is a cold hardy and heat tolerant ground cover for sunny areas.  I've been at my Home Depot garden center just about every other day waiting for their shipment to come.  I couldn't believe my good fortune to find it at this sale.  The Tampa Vervain on the left is a Florida native plant named after my hometown.  How could I resist?

It was a very good weekend at My Garden Path.

Weather Permitting

I have been itching to get outside and begin the Spring gardening season.  Weather has not permitted.  In fact, cold, windy days and colder, windier nights have forced me to practice one of the many virtues I lack; patience. 

Birdfeeders were cleaned and filled and patiently watched.  "Shh... NanaK, there's a bird up there."  It would be nice if I could show you the bird, but I was focused on the new cast-iron plants I had just planted around the base of the feeder pole and over here in front of the Cat palm. 

Oh my, I just love the variegation in this one.  I know these will do well in my garden, Simply Susan.    These plants are cold hardy and heat tolerant, perfect to help give my shady corner some interest all year long. 

I am patiently (ha!) watching the weather reports and using this time to clean-up clay pots for future flower plantings and containers for the spring veggies.  I am also patiently planning the right place/right plant  advice given by Meems at Hoe & Shovel.  I want to be sure that her generous contributions to my shade garden will be placed properly.  There really is always something to do in the garden, even when the weather doesn't permit the gardener's first choice.