Mid-Atlantic Gardening: What's still blooming end of October?, 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
My Coleus are happily rooting and growing under my seed set-up lights.
Can't use them for anything else right now--so why not for growing cuttings????

I have 2 large trays full of Coleus. One for ME--one for my Store Manager--Donn.
I have spoiled him so......For three years--I have been giving him plants for his garden.
Never any duplicates.....Most of his garden is all my plants. he loves them so! He tells
me all the time how beautiful his garden is--and how it is all "So worth it!"....

Because he is my Store Manager-- and I am an associate--there is NO hope for me to ever
go visit his place to see all the fruits of my labors...Totally unethical! Nor him coming
to see my garden--ONLY 4 miles away from the Store....He just cannot.....

He said his brother is making a Photo-CD of all his garden and flowers and such.
He will give me a copy. I said I will be glad to have it--to remember him by.
And--he can enjoy his garden in years to come--to remember ME by.

He will be leaving our store before the year ends....Sad for many of us--but mostly for me.
He will then be on his own with the gardening and the plants.....IF he has paid any attention
to all the print-outs and the pictures, and the directions and instructions i have given him--
he will be OK. But--he seems to be oblivious to al that....too Type "A" to pay attention.

He seldom listens to me....his mind is always thinking of 10 different things
he has to attend to....it is always--"OOOps! I have to run!"....I hate that---
especially when i am talking to him....BUT--that is what has made him the greatest manager---
The Store is his life--and so will be the next one--and the next one...OH, Well.....

He is my 8th Store Manager in 12 years. The best we have ever had!
Another one will come....and another--and another--every 2 years....
And--I will see what he/she is like....and another relationship "MAY" form--or NOT!!!!

Thanks for letting me share all this....I just wanted to. I know I digressed.....
I will miss Donn so much--as will most of the Store....
What a legacy for him! What a loss for us all!

Gita