We were in a pandemic lockdown last year during prime garden center shopping season, so I didn’t visit a garden center until late summer. Instead I replaced plants that didn’t survive over the winter with my own divided perennials and daylilies.
I didn’t lose that many plants over the winter. It never got bitterly cold and we had a deep snow cover for several months. But I still spotted some bare spots in my flowerbeds, so I decided to put some new plants in those spots this year rather than divide more daylilies.
Our garden centers are always bustling in May when everyone gets the gardening bug, but this year it’s busier than ever because pandemic restrictions are loosening up and everybody is coming out of their quarantine caves.
Somehow I managed to capture a rare moment when nobody was checking out the petunias and pansies, but trust me. Inside that opening to the left it was wall to wall (masked) people, and the most people I’ve come into contact with at one time in 13 months!
I could’ve spent hours there (to my friend who sat on a bench reading a book on her phone while I shopped it probably did feel like hours!).