Texas Gardening: knolan thread, 1 by knolan

knolan wrote:
One more, trying to post them all...I missed the broken pot. I had begonias poking out of there but someone has replaced with wandering jew. I used to have markers in all the spots but teenagers would come along and move them around. Another time, I had a parent who wasn't involved with the garden and who knew NOTHING about gardening, go up and start digging up the annuals that were dying (due to the heat and they being seasonal...we're talking about petunias and snap dragons in late May) to take back to her house to "baby". You should have seen me when I got the phone call. I loaded hubby and Rachel in car and drove straight there and caught her in the act. She's about, ummmm, a foot taller than me, and we were in a screaming match. I told her if she dug up one more plant I would call the police. I tried to explain to her that these plants were not going to make it through the Texas heat and that our children planted these. The first day we built this garden we did have a lot of small children bring plants to donate, that were all annuals, and I let them plat them wherever their little hearts desired. If they came back to school finding their plants missing they would be severely disaapointed. this woman was a Board Member as well and never participated on the garden committee. Her statement to me was that she was an "artist" and wanted everything "symmetrical" and didn't like the way I had laid things out. Hubby and Rachel laughed at me for weeks after seeing me "bow up" and tell her she had better decide to be on the committee or keep her grubby hands off the School Garden. This belongs to the schoool and not any whim she has up her *!@#. After taking to the committee, every single person said that if she were going to be on the committee, they quit. Next Board Meeting, she was scolded and told to keep her hands off. Let me also tell you, she was the treasurer and was just going to go and buy whatever she wanted to put in there. I was the committee chair with a $2,000 budget, which I had almost exhausted. She was going to go and make purchases without approval and overspend my budget. What do you think would happen to a treasurer that does that? Hubby said he wished he had a video camera, me looking up at Amazon woman and screaming at the top of my voice.

Ohh...I must be PMS'ing because I am sure getting myself worked up. Come on "Change of Life".