I more have nightmares where the plants I put together look terrible, silver maples choke the life out of everything for miles, and the weeds are higher than the roses.

I like yours better.

Yes, but then I also have waitress dreams from my college days. Then there are the dead cats dreams. Go figure.

Rosefolly

Paula, I CAN SYMPATHIZE: I dream about working as a teenager in my father's pharmacy. Also school dreams, both as teacher and as student.
I have recurrent dreams of both anxious and optimistic sorts. No garden dreams per se, but dreams about discovering that my house has more rooms or space than I realized, or that I own houses that I didn't know about. Dreams with spring water--blue water--are good dreams. I've gone through periods of dreaming a lot about my home state of Florida.
thonotorose: your dream sounds like a marvelous one. Did it come along at the same time as your gardening activities?
Melissa

Last week I had to meet a client at a nursery at 10:00. The night before I dreamed I was running late--the clock on the dashboard said it was 9:56--and I got to an intersection and couldn't remember what town I was in, so I didn't know which way to turn. I'm not sure whether it's a comment on the number of places I've lived or the homogenity of America.
Otherwise, I don't dream of gardens. It's the one place in my life where there are no issues.

What a coincidence! DH said this morning he had a dream last night about the rose that's outside our kitchen window (Maman Cochet, Cl). In his dream it had a huge flower on it - maybe 6" - that was red, white & blue with a flag in it. He almost woke me up. (I think he's impressed with that rose, too.)

Sherry

I wish I dreamed about gardens. Most of my dreams are either nightmares or frustrating types. If my dreams reflect my mental condition I'm in trouble. :D

t-rose

what a lovely dream. I did a quick lookup on the dream symbols and trees seem to refer to your "family" tree with some mention of reproductive system, hmmm, you were picking up seeds too.

I love dreaming and miss the childhood days of daydreaming, such a creative time. It would be nice to return to that.

My garden dreams are waking ones, while looking at pictures of gorgeous rose gardens and wanting to make one of my own, something BIG and public with columns and arches and arbors, well you get the idea.

Wish I lived near those great CA rose gardens. I'd settle for working in one.

Denise

Yes I dream of gardens. Every winter I start dreaming about roses. I can even smell them. I don't know how many times I've woken up smelling banana shrubs (Michelia figo).
I've dreamed that I was in Pam's garden up in Mendocino lots of times. It's so heavenly up there that it's no wonder that my subconcious keeps trying to pull me back!
My garden dreams didn't start until I first started gardening around 7 years ago.

Melissa, I have the dreams about houses, too! Both about more rooms and about different houses that I had "forgotten" that I had. Isn't that funny? I never would have imagined that anyone else dreamed that. It was especially bad in college, I would dream that the small apartment had all kinds of extra rooms, if only I could find them cause they were hidden.

Most of my dreams are good ones. Guess I'm lucky in that respect. But the rare bad one is awfull.
Carrie

Dear Thonotorose,
It's very unusual for a recurring dream to be a pleasant one (I'm a Certified Dream Worker). If it were my dream (and I have been having a lot of dreams about gardens and flowers lately) it would be about trying to find Beauty and Meaning in my life, perhaps through my family (trees) and/or my children (seeds), or wishing that I had had children, feeling that they would have added Beauty and Meaning to my life. That it recurrs says to me that there is something that I need to change that has not changed since the last time I had the dream. But if it does change slightly, then it would mean to me that I am working on it, making progress with the issue. Thanks for your dream!