Calling out Spring!!

If you are in the upstate New York area, and you're anything like me, you have some serious cabin fever raging.  Here's my cure, and BTW I find that I do this every year, just at slightly different times because of weather.  I'm going to go to my favorite local greenhouse and buy me some pansies.  They take the frost without too much trouble. Rochester is going to have about another week or 10 days of frosty nights. I'm not saying they won't lose their flowers that are fully out from the greenhouse, but they won't die, and they will continue to flower from the buds that are formed, and will grow new ones.  In many cases they will survive and come back next year, especially if you plant them in a partly shaded, well-drained moist area (morning sun).  This picture is a client's porch pot that I decorated for winter.  I'm going tomorrow to redo it for spring.  I'll post the after pic.  I put pansies all over her gardens where she can see them from her favorite window.  It's what we Irish like to call 'a lift of the heart'!