Do any of you do this silly thing?

lots of basil and herbs and many packets of flower seeds.

Here are some of the seed packages. Sorry for the fuzzy photo.

Pirl, You keep busy!
Harry is cute. One of my cats came from a dog pound!

Yes, we both do. I even went out and bought more plants today!

We've had three dogs from no kill shelters and they may have had their problems but they were all good dogs.

I'm a big believer. Our cats and some of our kids are recycled ;^). I was thinking of a turtle for my water garden and learned there is a turtle rescue too.

I'm a little sore from gardening today. What a great feeling!

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Come to think of it so is one of our kids! Luckiest day of my life!

Well. I guess we have a couple of things in common!

Dave47 - one of my cats came from Trumbull Dog Pound! He was only $5 and fixed. He is probably part Bengal and has run up hundreds of dollars in vet bills trying to undo the damage to his health by being nearly starved to death as a stray.

Other than biting me when I am on the computer hard enough to break the skin - he is cool. I have to keep him really busy or he rides my other cat like a pony. (This is very wrong.) So he and Holly (the first rescue cat) get "cat training" twice a day. Holly does "sit up pretty" and "look pretty" (that is a blank stare). Wallingford (the dog pound cat) shakes hands, gives hi fives, turns in circles to the left and right, comes when he is called, sits on command, snaps treat out of the air like a dog, fetches a crumpled paper ball, jumps through a hoop and - are you ready for this? -- plays a toy piano. He just bangs on the four keys - not playing a tune. Well not yet anyway.

Peace and Plenty,
Mem'

I'm quite impressed!

Have we seen them on Planet's Funniest Animals??

Hello, I'm new to DG but i've been reading the threads and the OCD w/seeds and plants has made me feel the need to confess. So hear goes....Last fall I planted 180 bulbs of tulips, glory of the snow, daffodils, and hyacinths for my 82 old Aunt. She goes to Fl. every winter so I thought that it would be a nice to see a bed of color flowering outside her window when she came home in the spring. Well it rained alot last fall and winter and I was concerned the bulbs would rot or freeze from the lack of snow. So this spring when the ground thawed, there I was every day. Starring at the brown bed. Willing them to grow and not be rotted. About 3 weeks ago I finally saw them poking thru the mulch, and yes, I have been out there every day sometimes more than once a day. Does this qualify for OCD? If not then I'm sure this last bit will. Now I count them, yup, every day. As of this morning, 175 have come up (GRIN) I think I'll sleep a little better tonight.

Pixie - Your aunt must bless you! What a lovely thing to do. Welcome to DG and the Northeast forum - nice to have a good person, like you, with us.

Thank you pirl! It is a pleasure to be here.

Pirl's pleasure!

yup - you qualify! Welcome to our 'sessions'!

Tomatoes (this just shows half of them) thriving in heavy cream sterilized containers. They're much happier than the ones in the Fat Free cartons! :-)

Oh goodness yes I am constantly staring at my seed trays waiting for the little baby plants to sprout, starting ten minutes after I plant them. :) Pixie, what a nice thing to do for your auntie.

And our cats are "recycled", too...couldn't ask for better furbabies. :) I'm not sure if our son is or not (not to be dense, but do you mean fostered?).

pam

Dave means either fostered, adopted or otherwise planted in your heart! We both share the GRAND experience.

Cool, me too...our son is from Guatemala.

Congratulations! I've given birth and I've adopted and adoption is such a gift from God!

Not blood of my blood
Not bone of my bone
But still, miraculously, my own.

Never think
For a single minute
You didn't grow under my heart
But you grew in it!

I just read this thread in it's entirety, and I am very, very concerned for my future! I hope the nut house has enough room for one more.

Wormboy--I hear the nuthouse has rubber walls and would therefore be expandable. :)

pam

I have to admit that I have that OCD thing about rocks. I have to take every single rock - no matter how big or small - out of my planting area. As soon as I hear that clunk when the shovel hits a rock - I am obsessed until I find the rock and get it put in a rock pile. I have piles of rocks all over the yard. Eventually I dig holes and bury them and call it a french drain or pathway. I found a rock so big when I was digging my tulip bed that I had to use a metal bar to break it into pieces before I could haul it out of the hole. My house is built on bedrock - so I am really in trouble here.

We use rocks we find (not as big as your rocks, AYankeeCat!!) for the area under the hose that always seems to stay damp.

You could always use the nice smooth ones for plant labels. I did a thread on it last year and it was a big hit.

Wormboy: your comments had me laughing out loud!

Pixie, Welcome. What a beautiful act of love!
I've counted bulb sprouts too.

3 of my children came from foster care. 2 came as teens one as a toddler. our 4th child came the old fashioned way. People often assume we had difficulty having kids but that's not true. It was a decision and I wouldn't change a thing. Raising kids has its difficulties and kids who have been abused and neglected have more difficulties than most. But I honestly feel I grew through each experience and became a better person due to the challenges of parenting each of my kids, genetic, foster or adopted.

OK, I'm being way to serious. Yankee (Mem?) better watch that rock obsession in these parts!

That reminds me - a lot of times when I am working in my beds my 7 year old son will ask what he can do and I usually tell him he can pick up rocks. He wanders off then - wanting a little more glamorous and easier job.

I HAVE TO ADMIT MY WIFE THINKS I AM STRANGE BECAUSE I STARE AT MY GARDEN FROM A CHAIR CLOSE BY WATCHING THE PLANTS GROW. I CAN SEE THE CHANGES EVERY DAY..LIKE WHEN THE KIDS WERE GROWING UP..OLD HABITS NEVER DIE!! IT'S A HEALTHY KIND OF CRAZY I THINK!

LOL! Glad to hear it Zonesix, I have to agree, I think of it as Zen OCD...
could care less about watching paint dry, or grass grow, but give me one pot and a seed and you'll know where to find me...



Happy Gardening (staring, watching, obsessing)
Dena ; )~

TO SHOW YOU THE EXTENT OF MY OBSESSION THIS IS A PICTURE OF MY BASEMENT GARDEN....

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LAST YEAR I SPENT A LOT OF TIME OBSERVING GARDEN VISITORS LIKE THIS ONE ON MY CANNA.

The flower bed I planted for my Aunt is starting to bloom. We have had 3 days of 68-75 degree days and they just shot right up, now i can't wait for the rest of them to bloom. Auntie was looking and just beaming..... that made it all worth while! Here is a picture I took this
afternoon.
OK...wrong picture. This is a trillium that grows wild in our wood line.


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This is Auntie's flower bed.

Auntie's flower bed is very, very nice. But, I love that trillium! I've never seen one like that growing wild down here.

Thank you Dave47! The trillium just seemed to appear a couple years ago. We have yellow ones too but they bloom a bit later than the red ones. I've lived here for 20 years and I don't remember the red ones showing up before 2001. The yellow ones have always been here. I'd gladly send you some if you would like, just let me know.

I agree with Dave. The tulip bed is wonderful and a very thoughtful gift, indeed, but that trillium is gorgeous!

Hope everyone covered their babies up gonna frost tonight, from CT and RI all the way up! Time for the OCD to kick into to overdrive!

I hope we're exempt on Long Island!

You want some too pirl?? I have a line of trees and they are every where! Like I said the yellows aren't blooming yet but the maroons are!

I ran out of things to cover plants with, so I'm hoping we don't get it.

I'd love some Pixie and please don't wash the soil off when shipping. Our radio guy said it's important to try to match the soil and I'd want to see it: I have no soil based fears.

Can I send you five eyes of Blue Moon hosta in return? Is your address listed? Mine is. NO RUSH!