you will come home with a few flowers, potting soil, gloves, a home improvement project and windex.

...lawn patch, potting soil, deer repellent, a flat of pansies, and three pots of lithodora. It’s a hopeless addiction.

And anyhow there's still 2' of snow in my back yard.

I’m zone 5, maybe even 6 because I’m in a sheltered location. My nephew lives next to the Ohio River, which gives him a zone 7 microclimate.

to be sure it's labeled zone 4 hardy. Most local garden centers are pretty good with those labels, but the big box stores - not so much. A lot of things do grow nicely here, and the University of Minnesota and other botanists have developed some tough hybrids, even including peaches.

And now I know what lithodora is . . . thanks Spinbaby and google.

I thought at first it was lobelia, which it strongly resembles.