RE: Problem Gardener

Hi Craig -- here it is.  Now tell me about the WildGarden list.

Nan
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> > << 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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Nan Sterman
San Diego County California
Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11

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