The new Sunset Western Landscaping

Gardening at night? I just found out that you may not want to get great new garden ideas at night. After a long day working outside I just wanted to come in, sit down and read. Made the mistake of picking up the new Sunset Western Landscaping, it's now 10 o'clock and I can't stand it, want to go outside and work, and look around, and DO THINGS...Have you taken a look at this new book? So many great ideas, and a little dangerous, too...just when some of your things are maturing you see something really different that inspires you to want to go pull everything out and do something different. How about if we were in some of the areas where it stays light pretty much 'round the clock during the summer, would we be out there at midnight working in our gardens?
Sherry

LOL Sherry, if it were not for the skeeters, I know I would be out there all night! LOL Funny how fickle we are, huh? You about drive yourself crazy getting something, then something else comes along and the thing you were so desperate for, no longer seems so important. LOLOL Too funny.
So I bet you did not sleep that night, all those great ideas probably zooming around in your head, trying to convince you that you needed them all. :~)
I can totally relate.
Donna

I can sympathize; I picked up a copy at the bookstore and started leafing through it and thought, "This is a lovely book, I want to buy it."

Then I slapped myself mentally upside the head -- what am I thinking?? We've just completed all our landscaping, a 3-1/2 year plan for our urban lot that has developed even better than we'd hoped. Now we love being in the backyard and hang out there every chance we get. I don't have ANY room to do any of those beautiful, tempting ideas!

I put that book back on the shelf FAST, and left before my wallet could escape from my purse, lol.

jkom51,

My trick is to pick up whatever it is that I want to buy and carry it around with me for about 15 minutes in the store. It somehow seems to fill that need to own, and by then I've owned it long enough that I can put it down. If I still really want it, it was meant to be mine, but more and more find that I can do without it. Books I seldom buy, but then I'm at the library at least every other day! Still, that is one VERY nice book!
Sherry

I've got it on hold at my local Library....this way I can 'test read' it before I buy it!

I think that's a prefect explanation Sherry, I have days where I go online and I fill my shopping cart, but never process it. Sometimes I go to another site and do the same thing. Sometimes I go to another and another...
Ah I think you get the picture *S*
Usually it's roses that tempt me, but it could be herbs or books.

Dove

Dove,
I use it on my 3 biggest addictions; books, fabric, plants. I did have to go out yesterday for Mexican feather grass (only 3, only 3, only 3) and tried to put my technique into use, but came home with a couple of beautiful verbascums also. I DO love verbascum. And I pushed those things around in my cart for a good 20 minutes! *giggle*

Well if 20 minutes didn't cure you then it must have been a necessity!

Dove, I like your thinking!

Me too, some things are "leverite", and some things are "takerite". obviously verbascum are takerite because two 'Jackie' verbascum came home with Spin and I today.

Blooms, I like "Jackie" also...I came home with "Sierra Sunset" today..what a beauty!! Haven't seen this one before. I've never met a verbascum I didn't like.
Sherry