You know you are addicted to gardening when .....

Sparaxis

20 years ago

Your alarm clock is on the floor because a pot of seedlings is using that little sunny spot.

Your kitchen table and half the kitchen bench are covered with pots of seedlings.

You know the names of all your plants, but can't remember the names of your neighbours.

You plan to take time off work on your birthday ... because it's peak bloom time.

You live near Flemington and are actually considering having a garden party on race day.

The only reason you want to go to France (or anywhwere else!) is to see gardens.

You want to win the lottery so you can buy more land, hire some help and build a greenhouse.

Your front yard has become a maze of walkways between the beds.

Your back yard has disappeared.

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robyn5760
20 years ago
You select the 'Peach Sable with Raspberry Jus' from the menu, because you saw it delivered to the next table, and the garnish was a type of mint you hadn't seen before.

You slip the garnish from your pretentious desert into your handbag and plant it by torch-light when you get home.
goldhills
20 years ago
Found this when I was looking for kids gardening jokes.

Top Ten Signs You Have Gone Over the Garden Edge.....
1. Your favorite poem is "Roses are Red, Violets are Blue.
  9. Your kids are named Rose, Violet, Daisy and Zucchini.
  8. You have 8 X 10 family pictures of your Tomatoes and Peppers on your office shelf.
  7. Your idea of Saturday Date Night is going out in the garden and hand pollinating the plants.
  6. You think a cocktail is liquid fertilizer.
  5. You rush home from work and go straight to the garden and hug your roses. (Ouch!) Then, you go in to your house and see you family.
  4. On Christmas Eve, visions of "Sugar Peas" dance in your head.
  3. After the first frost, you are seen holding funeral services in your garden.
  2. You take your kids multiple vitamins from them to use as a supplement to your plants fertilizer.
  And, the number one sign that you have gone over the garden edge is..
1. Every Spring your family files a "Missing Person's" report. You remain missing all summer, and mysteriously re-appear in the fall.
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youngquinn_gw
20 years ago
I have a huge stockpile of onions so I can use the onion bags to store bulbs in.

Every year on the first of march I say to my DH "What is that beer doing in my tulip fridge?"
Sparaxis
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Oh Pam! Please do what I did! I was shifting house, and digging daffodil bulbs by the hundreds, under cover of summer, and before the potential new owners would know thye were there. I dug 2 washing baskets full of bulbs to bring here and to my Dad's garden in macedon. We had friends who run a traditional greek greengrocery and I called in one day and bought fifty tomato bags from them. They were only to happy to let me have them for the wholesale price :-)
Otherwise stockings are good ....if you wear them, but they do snag in the garden when you tear home to hug the roses .......
Liatris
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Well, GH I don't know about Rose and Daisy et al but my two daughters DO have plant-type names! lol

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