No Hyacinths For You!

Yesterday, while in my hometown to have my dad look at my car, I decided it was high time to get my Easter on in the cemetery.  I get really paranoid about getting behind on the upkeep A. so people don't think that I'm neglecting it because I don't live right down the street, and B. because when I'm not, other people do it for me...and I know they mean well, but I get really hurt when they do.  While the rest of my friends are out decorating nurseries and picking out frilly Easter dresses, this is all I get to do for my daughter.  I wish everyone else saw that and left it for me.  

The grocery and home improvement stores here are full of potted Easter flowers.  It only seemed reasonable then, that the ones an hour away would also be so, and its much easier to buy flowers there than to have them spilling over and getting dirt in my car on the ride over.  

Boy was I WRONG!  One nursery told me they wouldn't have Easter flowers until mother's day, explain that one to me.  The hyacinths (which are really what I was after, but I'd have taken tulips or daffodils) in my yard are almost spent, so it's silly for them to tell me they couldn't have blossomed yet.  I went to every grocery store, hardware store, and nursery in plum and I found no bulb flowers whatsoever.  Only one place had any flowers at all.  So I wound up with pansies that are probably dead already from last night's frost and I'l have to plant some more flowers next spring.  I did at least find some mixed gladiolus bulbs at the dollar store and planted those, so at least Lizzie has some perennial summer flowers now and I put in some new mulch.