Zero. I'm a good (if not manic) planter. If I buy stuff, it's generally planted before I go in the house. If not, within the hour.

Now ask me when the last time my kitchen floor was swept/scrubbed...

Oh, and I'm not counting the flats of veggie seedlings that haven't been planted out. I'm not intending to plant those. My veggie gardens are laughably overful as it is. Those seedlings are just runners-up, should anything happen to the ones I did plant out. I know from experience that the moment I compost them, something will happen to my veggies. As it is, some critter chose to eat the tops off all my tomatoes in flats, but leave the ones in the dirt alone...

Your point?

This includes mostly leggy market pack annuals, though. My only problem with this number is for some insane reason, (I can only claim temporary insanity), I told Jimmy I wouldn't buy anymore until they were all planted.

What drug was I on when I said that?
~di

jaz,

PPPPFFFFTTTTT!!
I should have known.
LOL

~di,

My point?

I think my point was probably if I fessed up to the plants in pots like I did the magazsine thingie maybe I would get some incentive.

Hasn't happened so far but I'm hoping.
;o)

I'm all planted. Now I want to get some more plants in pots. I have to keep telling myself there really isn't any bare spots to put any more annuals. the perrenials will cover them up in about 2 weeks.

I think I already fessed up, but here I go again:

@ Endless Summer hydrangeas
3 double pink altheas
1 Chinese fringe tree
1 redbud
1 mahonia
2 roses
1 vitex 1 black-eyed Susan vine that I just can't figure out where to plant.

Too late now for anything but the vine to go into the ground. It's too hot to dig new beds & really too hot to plant trees. How's that for rationalized procrastination?

I would have had more than Di but my kids had mercy on me
this past weekend and planted almost all of my plants.
I do have maybe 10 left and i'll get them in the ground tomorrow or the next day.

Right now all my energy is taken up with chasing a big
overgrown Raccoon that is sure I had a new lawn sodded
just for him. He tears it up looking for grubs and I run
the sprinklers all night to try and discourage him.
Between the Raccoon and the Phoebes just when pray tell
am I supposed to plant anything? I forgot to mention that
the Raccoon has a problem with my landscaping plan and
sometimes rips out the flowers.

I am just now really starting to get the flowers out there, mainly because of the weather. No, they're not suffering in the packs and pots, just stuck on standby. They're up in the greenhouses being tended. It's not rained seriously here for over a month, maybe longer. The ground is concrete and nobody has made a hose long enough to reach where they're going. Before that, it was still frost weather.

I've compromised and started potting them up in large urns and placing them here and there amid the perennial beds. Today I got in two dozen ducks foot coleus and as many orange new guineas. Two weeks ago, when rain was forcast, but didn't come, I put in over a hundred wave petunias up part of my drive and started planting geraniums along a tree allee........but stopped when the rains didn't come.

I have a wedding here on the grounds next month and I want mega flowers in bloom, so the only altenative is potted, and most of them tended in the g'houses until we get rain.

Like Andie, I figure "lead me not into temptation". I didn't go to the arboretum plant sale this year. I never leave that place with less than a dozen new trees and as many shrubs. I used to kid about buying so many we'd have to buy more land. Well, this year, LOL, we did but it's not going into more gardens. My plans are milk goats at this point, as soon as I get my DH comfortable with the idea of more animals. LOL.

Jan, if only the Phoebes would attack the raccoon. I confess; part of me feels sorry for you and your dilemma and part of me is enjoying the visual of you chasing messy, drama-queen birds and raccoons,lol.
(I really have to learn not to be so honest about my emotions,lol.)

Jaz and Jill....double pfffft.

Whoa nelly, suzy! You just let a big fat cat outta the bag. A wedding in a month? Details, details, pics, pics and more pics!

Sounds perfectly rational to me, Andie. ;o)

Touche' Wanda. I hope you're proud of yourself. At dusk, you had me out there in my 86 degree, 100% humidity, skeeter infested, marsh dripping with sweat, planting like a maniac.
First count was 114. Furiously put in 52. Recounted afterwards, coming up with 118.
Gardening math?LOL
Drive up here, bring at least two of your gazillion gardening shoes you must own and help me dig woman! I'll let you stare at my neat and tidy closets.
~di

Just checked in again.

I started counting at 7 p.m. and I just came in for a drink and a new calculator.
The last one burnt up.

~di,
I'll make a deal.
I'll help you if you'll come help me.

Tell you what Di, I'll come plant if you come paint. I've got a couple walls in my basement I started painting a couple years ago and then got distracted... I tried to trick both my dad and my brother (who works for my dad) into helping me when they've been here... to no avail. So long as you don't have fire ants (and I don't think you do) I'd love to dig in your dirt!

Take her up on it Di.
When you're painting at her house, have her
cook for you and I hear she makes a fabulous
pink drink. Of course I wouldn't know anything
about it.:0)