This is a repost from last year, slightly tweaked, but still one of my fav's. - Jen
How do you know that you have been bitten by the gardening bug?
Easy, any one of these makes you nod your head, "Yes, that's me."
1. Other people think GPS stands for a navigational system, you know its secret code for Great Plant Sales.
3. You know where every Garden Centre is located, within a 100 mile radius. And they greet you by name.
They give you a phone call every time something special comes in.-Their faces light up when you walk through the door, and it not because of your sterling personality.
4. You started wearing green Velcro as a bracelet, after all you never know when a plant needs to be staked.
5. It's not new color of nail polish, its permanent dirt under your fingernails.
6. Your favourite winter reading is now gardening catalogues. It used to be romance novels.
7.Other people have pictures of their grandchildren, you have photos of your garden.
8. Your car is full of dirt, inside the trunk. and on the seats, even though you use car liners.
9. You have more gardening magazines, than any other type of magazine. 10. To you it's not a dead plant, its a seed collection opportunity.
11. You suffer from plant lust.
12. You can spot aphids at 10 paces, and name 4 organic ways to get rid of them.
13. You know that a brown thumb just means you have been weeding.
A green one means that you have been pruning.
14. You have more "plant want" lists than grocery lists. 15. Your family never gets dinner on time anymore, since there is always just one more thing to transplant, prune, clean up or blog about. After all, its good for them to learn to help themselves a bit, your plants already do.
Feel free to add yours........ at the end of the summer I will collect them all, and post them. 
Hey everyone, this is supposed to be scheduled for Wednesday morning. But somehow, Blogger itself is going through tech difficulties. Last night it would not let me download any photos.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's had too many vacation days.
Jen
16) When your husband can't find you at home or on your cell, he calls the neighbor and asks them to go out in the garden and tell you that he's on the phone.
ReplyDeleteVery funny list Jen!
add-on to #13. I have a black thumb...sad but true. me+plant=bad news...ill stick to looking at your lovely photos!
ReplyDeleteWell almost all of those are me to a t. Certainlly you must be at the garden store too much when they ask you where your kids are today? They dont just know me, lol. It seems a fun day out with the babes is a day at the plant store. Normal kids go to the toy store for fun. When I ask mine where we should go the awnser is often the flower store. This isnt normal is it?
ReplyDeleteThose were Dahlia's in my last entry. The spiky one is a Hailey Jane, the darker purply one that was just opening I cant remember the name of. I think it was something with the work Caribean in it??? But who knows, I can never remember the names of the plants I collect :)
17)I schedule everything else around the plant Sales. saturday morning is my regular scheduled nursery rummaging time and I find myself planning everything else around this.
ReplyDeleteFamily functions, chores, appointments all come second to my browse time. The early bird gets the best fittonia, and the purple fountain grass waits for no man! I mean why do you have to have your wedding vows at 10 am?? Wouldn't 2pm be better? choices choices...
lots of pots
Good comments everybody, keep them coming. I am looking forward to seeing all of them.
ReplyDeleteJen
Unfortunately, I can't grow anything well - maybe I get too distracted. But really enjoy seeing your gorgeous flower photos so that will have to do for me :)
ReplyDeleteLOL! I didn't nod my head once.. I love gardens but not making them... LOL!
ReplyDeleteYep! pretty much all of them.
ReplyDeleteMy honey always says when I leave for work and I have a short day, "you will have time to play in your garden when you get home"
When you daydream about plant schemes and combinations and the dream carries into the night and you still wake up with the same dreams the next morning.
ReplyDeleteWhen, on your day off and you can sleep in, you instead choose to wake up at 6 am to watch A Gardener's Diary.
Love the first one-GPS-gotta remember that one!
The children of the garden center owners thank me in their graduation speaches.
ReplyDeleteThey see me coming and they start rubbing their hands together and it isn't winter time.
You name your children Daisy, Petunia and Tradescantia.
It was very nice to meet you too, Jen. You are every bit as nice in person as you are on here.
Heee! I got most of those! I guess I am hopeless! :)
ReplyDeleteHere's a good one: When you visit a friend for dinner and start pulling THEIR weeds as you walk by their garden. Guilty!
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my blog and leaving such a nice complement. The love of taking photos was my father's legacy to me.
Hi Jen, I was going to add, the pulling everyones elses weeds one, Jill o beat me to it!
ReplyDeleteSo.. You used to keep a diary..now you keep a Garden Journal!
Your thumbs are impossible to scrub clean, you must tuck them in your pockets while talking to ladies with perfect manicures, who want to be better gardeners.. LOL
You use scientific names for everything, and know how to spell them too..this drives everyone nuts!
A fun subject...:) I am 7 and 9.