Uh-oh. I think I’ve just been diagnosed.
Howdy, howdy FReeper Gardeners Everywhere!!!!!
How do you know you’re a compulsive gardener???
I came across this article from back in December while perusing the closest daily leftist rag this morning.
The past few months have added a large number of new folks to our gardening “group” so let’s welcome one and all.
:-) Pinging my daughter - who has been saving seeds. :-)
I want to plant my neighbor’s yards full of shrubs and trees.
Oh noes! Guilty as charged...
Guilty as charged on all of the above except numbers 4 and 13. Now, I am declaring my punishment —out to the garden, it is a beautiful day here in NC!
My big spring event is my trip to Hidden Lakes Gardens for spring flower season. I Timed it perfect last year but this year I have a good camera to play with.
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/345793/index.html
Wow. Call me “compulsive”. We we go to a nursery, I am compelled to weed the plants in pots. My husband is mortified. :)
I’ve got a few symptoms, but so far I’m not ... Oooh, seed catalog!
Am I the only one compelled to leave notes on strangers doors asking them to please move the Hosta’s out of direct sun as they will be crispy critters by August?? And please mulch your trees in a bagel, not a volcano!!!
Sometimes it’s so hard! :)
I took the Master Gardener course here at the Missouri Botanical Gardens and now I make myself crazy driving down the street when I can’t remember the genera names for all the plants and trees that I see. It’s a disease, I tell ya!!!
i used to do what i call
guerilla gardening.
i’d transfer seeds and plants from one area to another.
I don’t want to weed the median, however, I do want to gather armsfull of the flowers they have planted there!
I fit way too many of these, and I am not even a good gardener! In fact, I am a very *bad* gardener, if keeping things alive counts. Perhaps I am just a compulsive gardener in my mind.
((((sigh)))) I promise to try harder this year.
Numbers 3, 9 and 13 are me.
I don't have the time and when we go on vacation, I'm screwed. I never get caught up and the place looks terrible.
Not to mention, I don't like getting stung because I have a bad swelling reaction. It's never been life threatening, yet, but I don't want to take the chance.
I envy those of you test positive for compulsive gardening.......
One of my favorite places to visit is Longwood Gardens.....
Good list of our habits.
I remember stuffing seed heads of zinnias into my pocket when I went to Six Flags Over Texas around the age of 11. Early onset.
#15
You get nauseated trying to identify plants when driving by in a car at 55 mph.
#16
Your electric bill spikes each year in late Winter/early Spring from grow lights and heat mats and ad hoc electric heaters.
#17
You find yourself raking mulch off the ice in March.
I am also guilty of trying to grow zone 5 plants in a zone 4a micro climate. They die.
#19. You have ever moved your car to a place in the driveway that will provide shade for your heat-stressed perennials. (High Summer)
#20. You mourn for trees along your morning commute have been trimmed (aka hacked up) by the electric company.
Guilty on all except 6, 8, and 12.