in full denial of the current weather conditions

i just ordered 135 plants from spring hill nursery. that's a lot of planting.

i prefer to just not think about where those plants will be stored until it is safe to put them in the ground.

all of those little plants (and ALL of them will survive, dammit!) are going to go into these spaces:


butterfly garden. we're ripping up the bricks and re-locating the chives.



50 foot long shade garden (just a few lonely hostas there now):


and, the gap between the yard and the garage roof:




the entire five minutes i was taking these photos, i was being maliciously barked at by this:



the past few days have proven to me that grackles eat about five times their body weight in seeds every hour.