this is a fancy restaurant!

for christmas, my grandmother gave us a gift certificate to a fancy garden catalog.  the problem is, we don't know what to get.  all the plants are lovely, but so fancy... is our garden fancy enough for this?

the shrubs

all of this snow has been torturing our poor shrubs by the front door.  they look as if they've been stepped on.  part of me is hoping they recover, part of me is hoping they don't so i can plant new stuff!  either way i still feel bad for them...