Holy cow! I’ve got almost 80 plants sitting in pots that I need to put in the ground.

The majority I bought last weekend at a native plant sale at the Heard Museum in McKinney. Tricia and I had to go out that way on another errand - at least that was my excuse - and we brought back a truckload of plants. Mostly small bedding plants like lantana and salvias and a whole flat of horseherb.

We entertained guests from Kansas City most of last week so none of them got into the ground. Instead we did a bunch of touristy stuff like visiting museums and photographing wildflowers and windmills. Not to mention grilling steaks and just relaxing on the deck. In other words we were busy.

It’s a good thing I like to drive. After chauffeuring people around all week we got in the car again on Friday to go to Leander to pick up  plants for our wildflower club’s own native plant sale. The club members used to grow all the plants themselves for their annual fund raiser but now they buy some of them from wholesalers to round out their inventory. Of course I can’t go anywhere that sells plants without bringing some home for myself. This time it was Vasey oaks and Chisos rosewood.

So that’s how things came to be so backed up on the to-do list.

Oh, and Happy Earth Day everybody.