Pansies

Today I got two flats of pansies and three bearded iris corms. We have matching stone planters on either side of our front steps and I usually have pansies in the fall, winter, spring, and then sweet potato vines in the summer. After a long winter it's nice to have flowers that simply are there. Last year I planted a couple hundred tulips (never enough) but I just am not feeling that energetic this year. Of course it is still quite warm here so perhaps the weather is disinspiring me. I don't think that's a real word and won't even live as a neologism but it's how I feel right now.