RE: Welcome and Problem Gardener

Susan is not offended.  It takes A LOT to offend Susan.  I actually cleaned
up the list myself and changed the fonts and prettied it up, and saved it to
my hard drive.  After I printed 10 copies for friends who don't have email
(how do they live???)


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!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: WHTROS@aol.com [W*@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 10:00 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Welcome and Problem Gardener
> 
> 
> Welcome, Craig, to the P-List!!
> 	This is a great bunch of people -- all with very dirty 
> hands and, 
> apparently, clean minds!  I am amazed at all the things 
> discussed that I have 
> never heard of.
> I'm always especially glad to see someone on the list who is 
> in the same zone.
> 	I always thought Ruth Stout's last name was Mulch!  Nice to see 
> someone who is familiar with her (and her methods).
> 
> Here is a copy of the post everyone is raving about!
> I hope no one is offended (esp. Susan) that I cleaned it up a 
> bit so it would 
> be easier to read.
> 
> Best Wishes --
> Barb
> USDA Zone 5, Rock Island, IL
> "What this country needs is dirtier fingernails & cleaner 
> minds."  Will Rogers
> @}-->-->---------------------
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> Subj: FW: [oldrose] Fw: Problem Gardener 
> IF YOU EVER WANTED TO UNDERSTAND ME
> Date:	5/5/99 10:34:15 AM CST
> From:	SSaxton@Schwabe.com (Saxton, Susan)
> 
> 
> You Might Be a Problem Gardener If......
> 
> > >	When you see an old house being torn down, you pullover 
> 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 
> wildflowers 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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