Paul, I do the same thing. If it's a dreary day, or just a bad day for any reason, I love to go to a greenhouse and just soak up the color. I can feel my muscles relax, and joy filling my body as I walk down aisles of blooming plants. In the midst of an icestorm here this week, a nursery near me got in a shipment of annuals. They had to bring them all indoors and the color explosion was incredible. Bright and wild zinnias, gerberas, snapdragons, pansies, petunias looked like tables full of smiling faces.
Our HD had the songbird columbines also, and they are a good buy this year. A few years ago, that series was fairly expensive. Is the red one named Cardinal? It's my favorite. I had one under a pink flowering crabapple.
