Yes, I do. I have been delivering some to other people this week just to avoid the guilt. I also do not feel guilty about decimating "bad" plants, but I just have a problem throwing away "good" plants. :)

Me too. It’s the reason I started having a plant sale in the spring. But I live in an area bereft of nurseries, so there is demand for hardy divisions. This fall I had lots a lily bulbs and was happy to find people willing to take them. They were healthy and I hated to toss them. I don’t find many people around here interested in fall planting, so that was great.

Any divisions I had got sunk in the garden to add to my spring sale.

yes..it's our love of plants..we can't stand to deliberately destroy a plant..I brought my plants in last week..I had a hibiscus tree that I've brought in the last 3 winters but I was ready to part with it..it looked decent..I offered it to 4 people..all of them passed..when I mentioned placing a Facebook post for free my patient husband said "just throw it away"..it would've been a hassle..too cold to leave by the curb..I wanted the pot..what to put it in when I take it out?..answering msgs or publicly post my address?..I don't love either..so I cut it up..put 90% of it in my compost bin..the trunk in my trash can..I felt a little guilty..

no problem with the overly aggressive ones ....

but on rarer stuff .... i used to have a 4 by 8 foot nursery bed .... and i would jam stuff in there.. to give to garden visitors .... plant sales ... trading.. etc ...

the key was.. value ... e.g. an aggressive mint has certain world domination tendencies ... lol .... so when the annual beat down came around.. i wasnt all that concerned about throwing them in the compost pile ... where.. if i didnt turn the pile.. they would take that over.. lol ... no ... i dont have a soft spot for some of these things. ... lol ...

but at some point.. you start getting rid of those types.... and spread your more exotic duplicates around ...

ken

At one time I felt sad trowing away pieces of plant from dividing, or left over annuals I'd grown from seed or extra produce from the garden. I'd always try to find someone to give them to. I think I was thinking about myself when I first started gardening and would have welcomed someone else's cast offs. However that wore thin after a while. I'd ask if people wanted them and they'd say yes but would never show up or they wanted them at their convenience. Potting up someone else's plants left me short of pots and soil and the time to do the work. With garden produce it was wishy-washy responses of not now maybe next week. Now I may ask but I specify the time and say if you don't come then they'll be in the compost.

I certainly don't feel in the least guilty any more. If the plants don't go to someone they are making me compost to nourish other plants and saving me money. That is the cycle of life and gardeners know that better than anyone

Not guilty, just sad.

Don't use rampant seeders or runners at all, but many great herbaceous perennials, in good growing conditions, need reducing every few falls; for me, among others, daylilies, garden phlox, salvias, Shasta daisies and New England asters. And this includes some of the, especially older, named cultivars.

I’ve given about 90% of mine away,. The rest i’ve tried not to let bother me. Although I’ll admit..at the time do feel a loss...But it’s soon forgotten.

dowlinggram..I've had the same thought about my unwanted plants going into the compost bin..they're NOT wasted..going forward I'm giving myself permission not to feel guilty tossing unwanted plants :-)

Except for the rare stuff, I have no problem hauling things off to the compost pile, there's a bunch of lily bulbs now cooking in there ... yes, they were a nice variety, though very abundant bulb makers! I also now forgive myself for garden produce that goes to the compost, we can only eat so much and attempt to give a fair amount away ... though, time to start cutting back on the vegetable garden.

Do I feel guilty?..........not a bit!! That boat sailed a long time ago :-)

I have offered free-for-the-taking plants at curbside and they all disappeared almost instantly. But I went through various reinterpretations of my garden several times over the years, the last being when I attempted to reduce required maintenance by removing a lot of the stuff that self-seeded or needed frequent division, so I have gotten rid of lots of perfectly good but no longer what I wanted plants. They all make wonderful compost!!

I never looked at composting them in quite that light :0)

Jinx..your cannas are so pretty!..I talk big about "no guilt" tossing plants but I couldn't compost them Lol..