Mid-Atlantic Gardening: spring time plant shopping, 2 by donnerville

donnerville wrote:
It's time to scour stores for new plants. What an exciting time of the year!

I got 3 pots of dward irises from Walmart. Their flowers are a vibrant blue. Very cheerful. They are supposed to be perennials in our area.

I also bought a French Lavendar from Lowes. It is not hardy in my area (survives winters in my friend's garden in downtown DC ), but I love their cute flower heads and grow one each year as an annual. I always bought baby lavendars in the spring and they bloomed in the summer. I never had one that was already blooming this time of year. Does it mean it will be done with blooming in a few months and have no flowers at all in the summer?