really? the woman is showing signs of dutch elm disease,a TREE disease, so the doctor is sending her to see a botanist to treat her....?!

When you carry your camera everywhere to photograph plants, trees, gardens, etc. When you go for a midnight ride in your power hair to do some pruning of plants along your way that just need the trimming and need to be rooted. When you travel five hours or more away from your home to attend a plant swap. When you would rather have fresh cow manure and composted dirt for your birthday along with that five hour trip to Crawfordville and all the other nurseries in Tallahassee that you are familiar with. When you dream about your garden and plants at night When the magazines around the house are seed catalogs with highlighted things you want. When you've been sick for a year and die inside when you see the plants and cuttings other gardening friends have shared with you crispy and dead because your non gardening housemate did not tend to them properly and you threatened to kick him out but punish him by forcing him to pull the year worth of weeds and air potato vines. The joy you feel when you see a little life in a plant and the pride when you nurse it back to good health.

... in spring, you hop out of bed first thing in the a.m., grab a cup of coffee and go peduncle/flower gazing. ... before you go to bed at night, you **sniff** around your Hoyas to see if any fragrances are wafting about. ... you have a Hoya website as your home page on your computer. Denise in Omaha

Joellen, That is a nice one! But the price kind of took my breath away. It's half what I paid for my big compost tumbler out back. It certainly is nicer looking than my plastic container though. I've seen some at TJ Maxx and may have to look there again next time I'm over that way, which may be soon since TJ Maxx is my guilty pleasure :). Dawn, I spent a while trying to figure out what IPM stood for and never even got close. That's interesting. BG (before gardening) I'd have never understood why IPM was even necessary, lol. And speaking of pests, a couple of times lately I've seen a little cluster of white eggs about the size of a small pea on leaves. Does that sound familiar, and if so, are they eggs of good bugs or bad bugs? I don't know what to leave and what to remove, and don't want to automatically remove everything since some are beneficial. Suzie