Gardening in the Rain

It's been years since I puttered around the garden during April showers, but that's what we did today and I had a blast.  Today was a spur of the moment kind of day. After tackling the house cleaning, hubby suddenly announced he would like to go to Lowe's and buy more mulch.  So we bundled Shadow into the car and off we went. They were having a terrific sale on annuals (six plants for just 88 cents) so I bought petunias and impatiens.  When we came home, it was drizzling and raining with a heavy mist.  After lunch I was bored so I thought I would go outside and just look a bit at the garden.

Well, what gardener can just "look" at her garden? I pulled out five pots of geraniums from the plant room that I have overwintering and let them get some drizzle.  The weeds annoyed me; I grabbed my hoe from the rack in the garage and started snagging those unwelcome visitors. The next thing I knew I had a trowel in my hand and I found myself planting several dozen impatiens and petunias in the garden next to the patio and the flower garden.  And you can't just plant annuals; the seeds have to go in too!  Five packets of zinnia seeds and one package of foxglove seeds planted, another peony staked, and a new garden bed marked out with string, my sneakers were soaked, my socks soaked, and I was a bedraggled mess along with Shadow. 

But really, it doesn't feel like a Saturday in April unless I'm outside gardening.

April showers do bring May flowers!