In honor of St. Patrick’s Day (?), we chanced our first spring pilgrimage to Lowes.  Most people were masked and distancing.  I was able to find much of my gardening list, while E got lumber and supplies to begin work on the deck project.

I’m especially pleased to have found a hellebore (Lenten Rose).  It’s not a native, but it’s one of my favorite shade perennials.

The southeast is about to get some kind of major storm, and it’s just starting to rain again.  The spring bulb flowers are drinking it up the way I drank up my St. P. Day Guinness.  Did I mention my peas are all coming up?