Re: RE: Plant Addicts?Horticulture Helpers Anonymous

You're right about that - I'm there. Jesse and I used to joke about
forming a chapter of Gardeners Anonymous. Well - we were partially
joking anyway!


LOL
;-)

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Donna" <justme@prairieinet.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:48:02 -0500

>I think the real question is-- Anyone on the list it DOESN'T apply to?
>
>Donna
>
>> Perfect, just perfect!  I am not alone!!!   If I weren't laughing so
>> hard, I'd be almost embarrassed that it describes me so well.  Thanks,
>> Daryl.
>> 
>> Lynda
>> Chortling in West TN - Zone 7
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> Behalf Of Jesse Bell
>> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:48 AM
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Plant Addicts?Horticulture Helpers Anonymous
>> 
>> 
>> OHMYGOSH...that sounds like ME!!
>> 
>> Jesse Rene' Bell
>> Claremore, OK
>> Zone 6
>> 
>> 
>> >From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
>> >Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> >To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> >Subject: [CHAT] Plant Addicts?Horticulture Helpers Anonymous
>> >Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:21:07 -0400
>> >
>> >Lynda,
>> >
>> >You might be interested in the following.
>> >
>> >Summary: Ever feel like you're the only gardener who is totally 
>> >obsessed by the need to own every plant and/or seed known to man, 
>> >whether it will grow in your area or not? Read (and memorize) the HHA 
>> >Creed so that you know that you are not alone!
>> >
>> >The Horticultural Helpers Anonymous (HHA) Creed.
>> >
>> >   1. I want it.
>> >
>> >   2. I want it all.
>> >
>> >   3. I want it now.
>> >
>> >   4. If it will not grow in my zone or is prohibitively expensive, I 
>> >want it most of all.
>> >
>> >   5. I am perfectly willing to forego any necessities of life such as 
>> >food for my children in order to have it.
>> >
>> >   6. I recognize my horticultural dependency.
>> >
>> >   7. I recognize your horticultural dependency.
>> >
>> >   8. I will willingly aid and abet your dependency, as you will mine.
>> >
>> >   9. This makes us infinitely happy.
>> >
>> >  10. Any money not spent by virtue of comparison shopping equals found
>> 
>> >money and therefore is not counted as spending.
>> >
>> >  11. More is more!
>> >
>> >  12. Regardless of my previous desire for, planning for, or need of 
>> >any plant, if all the others have it, I must have one, too.
>> >
>> >  13. If I have planted all that I have already purchased, I must 
>> >immediately purchase additional plants.
>> >
>> >  14. We believe in owning all plants, we believe in sowing all seeds, 
>> >and owning all catalogs and books related to feeding our needs. If 
>> >there be any plant that is virtuous, lovely, or of good report or 
>> >praiseworthy, we seek after these.
>> >
>> >At this point, it is customary to recite one's VISA card number, from 
>> >memory only, please.
>> >-----------------------------------
>> >This creed began life around 1994 in the Gardening Roundtable of GEnie.
>> 
>> >It was refined and condensed by Denise Beck, a CompuServe Garden Forum 
>> >member.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Daryl
>> >  "A garden, where one may enter in and forget the whole world, cannot 
>> >be made in a week, nor a month, nor a year; it must be planned for, 
>> >waited for and
>> >loved into being."    Chinese Proverb
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Lynda Young" <lyoung@grindertaber.com>
>> >To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> >Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:39 AM
>> >Subject: RE: [CHAT] For those in my area
>> >
>> >
>> > > Donna - my sympathies on the loss of an obviously cherished plant 
>> > > source.  Have I told you about the group I'm trying to organize - 
>> > > PARS - Plant Addicts Recovery and Support?  I hope that with hard 
>> > > work and the encouragement of fellow sufferers to someday be able to
>> 
>> > > drive past a nursery without stopping, to browse a catalogue without
>> 
>> > > feeling compelled to complete the order form, to pick up a plant 
>> > > magazine without turning to the back to see how many sources offer 
>> > > on-line ordering, to rid myself of that notebook and it's thirty 
>> > > pages of jotted names of must-have plants still to be located.  
>> > > Honestly, my husband and I are GOOD people - it's just this shared 
>> > > compulsion that's turned our lives inside out.  ;)
>> > >
>> > > Lynda
>> > > Zone 7 - West TN
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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