Discount Flowers

Spring has been a long time coming this year even for us in Georgia, but the trees have finally regained their leaves and the flowers are blooming. The flowers are also marked down everywhere. It seems the stores just can't sell out of them fast enough.
I got these this weekend:

There's a miniature rose there in the front. I saw them before Mother's Day and the roses are a very dark red but I wouldn't pay $8.99 for them. Yesterday they were marked down to $2.50.
The pink flowers are lantana. My friend has these flowers beside her steps and they get huge in the summer and the butterflies love them. I can't seem to remember what I paid for that one. It might not have been on sale but I wanted one.
There are two hostas behind that. I have some in the front garden that used to be huge but the rose bushes and 4 o'clocks have over-run them for so many years that they have gotten smaller. Soon they will all be moved and I will put them in a better place. The hostas were marked down to $1.33.
Then one more behind that is a shasta daisy. When I lived up North shasta daisies grew like weeds but down here they do not do as well. I got that one for $1.66.
They are sitting here on the dog carrier, waiting like we are for Wednesday. :) Explanations will come after Wednesday.

Stay tuned....

I have not forgotten the blog. Things are starting to happen and I'll have news very soon!  If all works out right....I'll have plenty of new things to post about soon. I will say that it has been a bit of a stressful journey for me.
In other news, my oldest came home from Afghanistan today! My youngest volunteered to go, sigh, so I get to do it all over again. He goes in a month or so, then 9 more months of worry (terror) until he comes home as well.
Still playing the violin. Got a book of Irish tunes which I like very much. Playing the Irish tin whistle as well and I am really enjoying both.
Anyway, good news to come...hopefully!

Today's Harvest 1/2/13

Got down to the garden today with the intent of trying to find the beds again. They have been completely overgrown with chickweed again. I did do a little weeding though there is still a lot more to do but I got side-tracked when I found, first, the turnips and then, the cabbage (and then I remembered that I had left all the dogs on the bed together and Romeo and the little boy -who ended up being named Scooter- still have rather terrible fights so I didn't get anymore weeding done).

I am just amazed at my little heads of cabbage (there isn't any brown on them, I am not sure why it looks brown in the picture). This is what I should do every year. Totally neglect the garden and it will grow!
So now to figure out what to do with the cabbage. I don't need sauerkraut as I still have some. I may just blanch it and put it in the freezer.