FW: [oldrose] Fw: Problem Gardener IF YOU EVER WANTED TO UNDERSTAND ME:


> > << You Might Be A Problem Gardener If......
> >  
> >     When you see an old house being torn down, you pull 
> over and dig out
> >  all the abandoned peonies and iris ... then try to get 
> your friends to
> >  make room for them in their gardens.
> >      You have all the Dutch Garden catalogues back to 1979 
> so you can
> >  remember what tulips you bought.
> >      A part time job in a garden center with a discount is 
> your life's
> >  goal.
> >      You go nuts when a garden center does not tell the species or
> >  cultivar name. Monarda what...... ?
> >      You spend the morning drive to work mentally marking 
> roadside wild
> >  flowers for seed collection later in the season.
> >      You reply to "How are the kids?" with a detailed 
> current rundown on
> >  the health and flowering of each of your perennials.
> >      While waiting for a bus, you find yourself deadheading 
> the curbside
> >  impatiens.
> >      You can be found wandering in the garden talking to 
> plants and trees
> >      When other folks pull out photos of their 
> children/grandchildren,
> >  you pull out photos of your favorite plants and garden projects
> >      You buy another plant, even though you have no earthly 
> idea of where
> >  you will find a place to plant it
> >      If you won the lottery, you're first thoughts would be 
> about how you
> >  could improve your garden
> >      It's spring and a late freeze warning comes along, you 
> first go out
> >  and carefully cover your tender plants.   Later you 
> remember to turn on
> >  the heat in the house for the humans who live there
> >      You have permanently brown knees from kneeling in that 
> good earth
> >      You can reel off the life history of every perennial 
> in your garden
> >  and consistently forget your family's birthdays and anniversaries
> >      You go outdoors to turn on the sprinkler and get carried away
> >  looking at the plants and then remember that supper was 
> cooking on the
> >  stove!!
> >       You can walk around the block and see all the plants 
> you've given
> >  the neighbors-partly to share but also because you couldn't bear to
> >  compost them....
> >      You're fascinated by the volunteer pumpkin growing in 
> the compost
> >  pile....
> >      You go to the garden center and actually pay money for 
> rocks-and it
> >  takes you half an hour to pick out the ones you want.....
> >      You make people who come to visit taste all your 
> different varieties
> >  of mint....
> >      It makes your day when you discover assassin bugs in 
> the cypress....
> >      You're considered the neighborhood authority on slime 
> molds.....
> >      You fear you will have an accident driving one day 
> because you're
> >  always looking sideways to see what people have in their yards.
> >      You buy beer for slugs.
> >      You looked around the garden and patio area the other day and
> >  realized that the garden is neater then the house
> >      You have been known to garden after dusk, through use 
> of flashlight
> >  or floodlight >>
> 
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Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is a little old fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter

I AM in shape.  ROUND is a shape!

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