Coming on spring

I have lettuce and swiss chard already coming up and some onions.  Time to get planting.  Just waiting for this front to pass through tomorrow night.  I plan on a good garden this spring, then again in the fall.  I am planting tomato plants in among my flowers.  I have cabbage under my roses.  I will have herbs and vegetables in all the flower beds.  I also bought some flowering plants yesterday.  We have bees looking for food.  All I have blooming is dandelions.  My neighbor hates me for letting them grow and bloom, but he can just deal with it.  The bees need them.  I also have coral vine seeds.  I am going to put them along the fence along with honeysuckle.  I want nothing blooming except things the bees and butterflies will use.  Everything else I don't need.  I tolerate two Hackberry trees simply because the Gulf Fritterary butterfly needs them.  And I am not a fan of Hackberry trees.  That being said, the small black berries that they produce is very healthy.   My son made a paste of them for me and it was really rich.  Good too.  I have an abundance of Plantain, which is considered a weed, but is a very healthful plant.  I am drying it for tea and also to use in hand lotions.  Next up is drying Yaupon leaves.  The leaves of the Yaupon are really healthy but the berries are extremely toxic.  I am not as good as my son in identifying edible plants, but I am getting there.  We may never need that knowledge, but you never know.