RE: Problem Gardener

Thanks.  I guess I should have thought a little more about asking for this
list from the entire group.  This is the third time I've received it this
morning.

Now about the WildGarden list.  We pretty much talk about anything to do
with plants, trees and shrubs that attract our bird and butterfly friends.
It's rather amusing at times.  Some days are just plain quiet.  But I'm sure
that's the way it is with most lists.

I have numerous shrubs, trees and flower gardens.  I just put in a perrenial
garden last year (please don't ask me everything that's in it....I would
have to go home and look up my garden list).  I can tell you this much, I
have some shasta daisies, sweet William, dandelions, creeping phlox, and
daylillies.  In my other flower garden I have bleeding hearts, miniature
roses, dandelions, climbing blaze rose, tea roses, hardy glads, tulips,
dandelions, the list is kind of like the Energizer Bunny....it goes on and
on and on (can I get a witness?).

I could tell you everything I have in my yarden, but that would take a lot
of time and space.  Let me just say this much...when I moved into my house 7
years ago, I had 3 trees (one flowering plum and two sugar mapel).  Today, I
have 22.  There were no shrubs or flowers.  Today, I have anywhere from 40
to 50 shrubs and somewhere in the range of 250-300 perennials and annuals
(and I still want more).  Fortunately for me, I have many long years to add
to my ever-growing list (I'm 29).  From now on, I will stay with the list
topic....being perennials.  Since I just got into perennials last year, I am
extremely eager to learn.  I have read so much in the last few years.  It
seams you can never learn enough.

Thanks,
Craig Wallace
craig.wallace@emotors.com
Brighton, Illinois
zone 5

"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose, I would always greet it in a
garden." -Ruth Stout


> ----------
> From: 	Nan Sterman[SMTP:nsterman@mindsovermatter.com]
> Reply To: 	perennials@mallorn.com
> Sent: 	Thursday, May 06, 1999 10:38 AM
> To: 	perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: 	RE: Problem Gardener
> 
> Hi Craig -- here it is.  Now tell me about the WildGarden list.
> 
> Nan
> _________________________________
> > > << 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 >>
> **********
> '''''''''''''''''''''''
> Nan Sterman
> San Diego County California
> Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
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