Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Offerings/Wish List for Plant Swap in Lucketts, VA (May 21), 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Jill---

Did you not show a different Honeysuckle on a "haves" post??? it was reddish/Purplish????

Was the one you gave me a few years ago the "Americana Honeysuckle"????
It's blooms were coral....I thought that was the one I had--dug up--and gave to my Manager...

Then--you posted a link to another one. I thought it was red??? Maybe purple?????

Anyway--Here is the Honeysuckle you gave me in May of 2008. I DO have it listed as
L. Americana.....(see picture below)
I rooted it--planted it--after 2 years--needed to get rid of it--as it was taking up too
much room. Dug it up and gave it to my Manager, Donn...Both of them!

SO??? What is the other one you posted a link to above?????
I thought it was purple/reddish.....

Anyway--IF you have cuttings from any other than the "Americana"---please bring me some....

Just trying to appease the "I want--I want"--childish needs of my MGR.

He IS a budding gardener--IF, only, he could stop being so obsessive and anal about his
position at HD. He IS the best MGR. we have ever had. SO! I should not complain....
I just relate to him on a different level......Plants and Gardening--and I Teach HIM!
--He forgets everything I tell him--and the names of plants....
--He does not know what is an annual or a perennial--and I have been telling him for 4 yrs. now....
--He has "tunnel vision" as to what he wants--irregardless if it is an annual or a perennial....

I feel very sad and empathetic for someone like him--whose ONLY focus is his job!
--NO personal relationships....Nice looking man--NO Girl-Friends....just turned 44yrs. old/young.
One of 6 siblings--NONE of them married--what does that tell you????
ALL of them consumed by their jobs--singular visions.....obsessions....
--NO other interests or focus in his life....Has a home--1 acre of land he is trying to "garden"
and I have been supplying him with plants now for 4 years....He still does not know their names!!!!

I won;t give up! HE brings out a maternal instinct in me. We both have a connection--
but it is garden-related...AND--That is all it should be....

He always says---"I love you"---and I always answer---"I Love you too" ...and it means nothing....
For--It cannot---He is my Store manager----I am his Garden and Plants advisory.....supplier...
It is a sterile "give and take"......

Anyway--I am most fond of him and have tried for now 4 years to turn him into a better gardener...
Sometimes--in life--you just meet someone you can really care about--with ABSOLUTELY NO
reciprocation in mind.....

That be me! Gita