Bravo that you’re recovering nicely. It took us about a month, too. I didn’t want to bring you down by mentioning it. LOL!
Sounds like you have some lovely plans for the garden. I just want a couple of new lavender plants and a new lilac, since mine croaked during our deep freeze last winter.
I had lilacs at my old house. One was about 45 years old and had cool old branches, the classic purple variety. I have been looking for a lilac to plant here but didn’t see one I liked last year. I found lilacs that had much smaller flowers and not a good purple color. I want the old fashioned purple you find on farms in Wisconsin. Will look again this year.