Due to me living in Michigan (it could be 70 degree’s one day and then 20 degrees the next day) I’ve always waited until after Memorial day before I planted my flowers due to me not wanting to have to deal with covering them in case there was one last frost of the season. 

Last year one of the wholesale flower nurseries close to my house ended up having left overs and sold big beautiful flower baskets,  flats and you name it dirt cheap.  So this year I tried holding out, but ended up buying my flat of flowers for the flower boxes yesterday.  I did hold off buying the flowers to go in my chair (I have a wooden chair that the seat is missing so I can put one of those planters with mixed flowers in it) in hopes that they would have their sale as their flower baskets are over 1/2 the price of everyone else.

Well, today as I was coming home from the grocery store I noticed that they were starting to put a tent out by the road which gave me a clue that they were going to be selling them again today!  So I called my in-laws to give them a heads up and an hour later they called me and said they had just gotten back and bought $20 worth of flowers!  So I packed the kids up in the car and off we went.

They had so many beautiful flowers again this year!  I just wish I would of held off a day so I could of bought my flat of plants from them instead.  (Of course it helped their flats were 1/2 the price of what I spent yesterday)  What was really nice is the big pot of flowers I bought for my chair had the exact size planter I needed so I was able to just drop it right into my chair instead of having to transfer any flowers!

Needless to say I’m going to be writing on my calendar that I bought them today so I’ll remember to hold of buying any until I can go to their sale first!

Do you have your flowers planted yet?  Do you usually buy the same kind every year?  Or are you the type that always likes change?