>hotel furnishing in Bulgarialieve I told you I need to start attending a 12 step program for plant addicts.
I’ve done it again. After snapping up those cute Little Lanterns columbines, I went back and bought some lovely epimedium rubrum (3), my first ever, and no, I hadn’t finished planting the columbines. And NO, the High Country Garden order isn’t in the ground yet either. And YES, there is a so-called holding area where some plants go and die and others wither for a long time. Can I help it if I got a flat of echinacea ‘Sundown’ last October, $2 per plant, normally $8? OK, so only half survived and that makes them $4 each and I still consider that a bargain.
If I could just get that new bed dug and the retaining wall in……………….I know JUST where I want to plant them all…………
I told myself tonight I am soooooooooo far ahead of the game. It is just the 9th of May, some stuff is already in the ground! Usually I am scrambling to finish up by Memorial Day. I have 17 days left.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Carol, May Dreams Gardens // May 10, 2008 at 4:31 am
12 step program? Now what fun would that be? You ARE ahead of the game, so reward yourself by going out to the garden center and buying yourself a new plant or two.
2 Dee/reddirtramblings // May 10, 2008 at 10:14 am
Oh, puhleeze . . . I am so much more of a plant drunk than you are.
You are doing fine. Just keep plugging away.~~Dee
3 eliz // May 11, 2008 at 12:01 am
I have 50-plus mail-order plants and a flat of seedlings sitting upstairs in a room.
And I haven’t even started buying at the local nurseries yet.
4 debra // May 11, 2008 at 10:27 pm
MA, you’ve heard of “The Horticultural Creed,” haven’t you? Our mutual pal Robyn Cannon printed it up and framed it for me as a going away present when I left Seattle for SoCal.
I think now is the time to share this creed with you and your readers:
1. I want it
2. I want it all.
3. I want it all now.
4. If it will grow in my zone or is prohibitively expensive, I want it most of all (Actually, it doesn’t really matter if it will grow in my zone, since I am in zonal denial.)
5. I am perfectly willing to forego any necessities of life, such as food for my children or (possibly) even wine or seasonally appropriate new shoes in order to have it.
6. I recognize my horticultural dependency. I recognize your horticultural dependency, and I will willingly aid and abet your dependency, as you will mine. That makes us infinitely happy.
7. Any money saved by virtue of comparison shopping equals found money and is therefore not counted as spending.
8. If everyone else has it, I must have it too (okay, this relates to Rose Rocks, too!).
9. If I have planted everything that I have purchased, I must immediately buy more plants.
Amen. Not exactly 12 steps, but three-quarters of them.
xoxo Debra
5 Gail // May 14, 2008 at 10:18 am
Oh, my, do I get this post completely! My holding bed, a strip of space on the driveway close to the hose, is always full! If they don’t make it into the ground by fall I cover them with leaves, sort of buried in the ground….they sometimes survive!
I have a related but similar affliction, Multiple Personality Gardener…buying lots of plants that don’t always make sense in my garden!
Gail
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