I hope I'm not the only one who's done this...

Have you ever ordered a plant that you just HAD to have, only to discover that you already had it? I just did that yesterday! I had had Epimedium on my mental list to get new for next year, and when I placed an order yesterday, the nursery I ordered from had it, so of course I ordered it! So today, I'm making labels for a few new things I got at a local nursery event about a month ago, and there was this one that I didn't have an ID tag (from the nursery) for. And I'd forgotten what it was. Then I remembered that its leaves were supposed to be green and pink at some point in its life (they aren't at the moment), and something rings a bell... And then I found a piece of paper that I'd written the names of my 'new' things down on, so that I could look them up for proper placement. And there it was. Epimedium.

Oh well. Now I'll have two of something I wanted. LOL!

Please tell me - somebody - that you've done the same thing...

Maybe not that exactly but I have planted things and totally forgot that I planted them and then in the spring they met with hoer's blight because I had forgotten I planted them the previous fall and didn't recognize the baby new plants. I did that with two echinacea meadowbrites and a very small hydrangea start. Now I make myself nice large stakes with names. LOL

Lenjo, I laughed out loud about your hoers blight!! I did something similar this year. I had a wildflower garden and in weeding it, found out later that I was taking out all the black eyed susans, because I had some planted somewhere else. So when I sow or plant next year, going to label really well.

I bought a new hosta from my wish list last spring and then discovered I already had it. Nursery was gracious enough to let me exchange it.

Ann

DH's buddy wanted him to come over and help him identify the stuff growing in various garden spots in his yard.... and I'm thinking, he wants the guy I have to watch like a prison guard to keep him from pulling up my perennials every spring, to come and identify his plants? Walking away, shaking my head and muttering......

I haven't done that with plants but don't ask how many duplicate books I've bought, or how many cans of tomato soup I have (enough that I have to put the new ones in the back so the front ones don't expire before I use them up.)

meezers, if they wouldn't keep changing the cover art, that would not happen lol. Hey! Your DH is related to mine. Pitiful.

I usually do not buy the same plant but manage to end up with a one color theme when I did not mean to. So many xeriscape plants seem to be purple-at least when i buy them.

Lenjo, I've done that. Anymore, though, unless I absolutely know for sure that it's a weed, I'll let it get a good start until it is large enough to identify. In one of my beds this summer, something was starting to grow and it just didn't look like a weed to me, so I let it go and I'll be darned if two nicotiana didn't come up where I'd had them last year. I didn't know they'd reseed themselves!

They do and all over.

They're not hardy to my zone, but I never thought about the reseeding thing!

I can't tell you how many wildflowers I pulled up this Spring! I put seeds out in the fall - duh!!!

Nicole

I've pulled things out and looked at them and realized I planted them just the other day. You would think I would learn to slow down, but I just get carried away with the weeding. The other thing that happens to me is that I baby a plant along for months only to find out it is really a noxious weed! Sigh.