12th Step Recovery Program for plantaholics. You might be ..

Basket_Case recommended we start a thread for Plantaholics and the ways you can identify them. Please note we are not looking for " recovery" only "discovery"!!! Do not be mislead by the title, however a place for our family to go might be good ... modeled after Alanon.

You might be a plantaholic if ALL the packages that get delivered to your house contain plants.

You might be a plantaholic if your hands look worse than your husbands due to all the gardening!

You might be a plantaholic if you keep buying plants after you've maxed out your garden space!

You might be a plantaholic if the only forums you post on have to do with plants!

You might be a plantaholic if you think seed money to start a business is to buy seeds with!

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You might be a plantaholic if, when someone mentions something being soiled, you immediately think about what plants you have that need repotting!

You might be a plantaholic if you patronize certain resturaunts just to see if what they have planted outside has seeds yet.

You might be a plantaholic if...

The rare opportunity to dig up plants from an abandoned house
comes on a rainy day while wearing a dress and heels with a shovel
conveniently loaded in the back of the car. You'll never have this
opportunity again.

What's a girl to do?

Take off shoes, look around, remove panty hose and dig.
Then drive off quickly with your head down.

You might be a plantaholic if, when your friend says they have a job at the plant, you reply, "Me too!" and head for the garden!

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You might be a plantaholic if, you insist your DH pulls over so you can see what flower it was that you just passed at 75 miles per hour.

You might be a plantaholic if, when an aging relative complains that they are going to pot, you ask about what kind of plants they are going to pot up!

You might be a plantaholic if your BF invites you out for a "fun" day of shopping and you decline because she meant "the mall" and not the "nurseries".

You might be a plantaholic if you have or considered buying an ink stamp that reads "Perishable"

You might be a plantaholic if the folks at the post office - immediately ask what plants are you mailing today?

You might be a plantaholic if the exit greeter in the lawn and garden section of your local Walmart call you by name to tell you they just rec'd a new shipment of plants in...sad, but true.

You might be a plantaholic if you help another Walmart associate dig thru a pallet of boxes b/c you KNOW that your favorite pots came in but the "right" size hasn't been put on the shelf...yet.

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You might be a plantaholic if you didn't notice the buffalo in Yellowstone Park, because you were studying the bloom of the plant beside the road.

You might be a plantaholic if the first place you look in the National Park gift shop is in the book section to see if you can id that plant you saw... you know, the one near the buffalo!!

You might be a plantaholic if the teams you root for all have Latin names!

You might be a plantaholic if you find yourself deadheading plants in places other than your yard, like nurseries, school yards, restaurants...

You might be a plantaholic if you request gift cards from Home Depot, Lowe's etc. for you b'day, Christmas so you can buy plants, garden tools...

....if you have a stack of seed catalogs that is old and dare someone to throw them out because you 'might need them'.

"You might be a plantaholic if you request gift cards from Home Depot, Lowe's etc. for you b'day, Christmas" - or how about a credit on your paypal acct. so you can get some new plants off of ebay? LOL

Well then in addition to qualifying as a Plantaholic, I'm a bookaholic.

Bookaholic here too!

Cataholic here, not Cathlic ;) I love my furbabies!

Raggedyann, I'm with you on this one, and I have 15 cats to prove it, but I'm also a plantaholic.

A few weeks ago at Garden Valley Ranch, I bought a rose just because it had no tag. I thought no one else would buy the poor unidentified thing and I felt sorry for it. I guess it was a logical extension of my habit of bringing cats home from the pound because I feel sorry for them and because they're so old and bedraggled that no one else might want them.

So, you might be a plantaholic if you buy plants just because you can't stand to think of them waiting forlornly for another buyer at the nursery.

Zuzu, I would have that many cats too if hubby would let me. He brought the last one home because 'it had blue eyes and followed me'...LOL

You might be a plantaholic if, when signing up up with the Do Not Mail people, you make sure the seed/garden/nursery catalogues are *not* included on that list.

You might also be a plantaholic if your bedtime reading has changed from fiction to those same seed/garden/nursery catalogues or other garden type books (generally large enough to require a desk to support them!)

This message was edited Oct 15, 2007 7:51 PM

OMG...how sad is that?...I can so relate!!!

I knew I was a plantaholic when I bought my first Sunset Western Garden Book!!

Thanks,

Chuck

You might be a plantaholic if you get three emails that your plants have shipped, and holy cow, you don't remember ordering them!

You might be a plantaholic if your daughters have built new houses and all you can see is the size of the yard and the type of dirt, and you start buying plants for them, plus triple the size of your compost heap because they are going to need it!

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You might be a plantaholic if, when sitting in your garden at night enjoying a glass on wine (should that be whine???) , you tell your husband that the next time you buy a house the sun/shade aspects of the garden will take priority over everything else, or, better yet lets build a house and do the landscaping first!!!

IDK - makes perfect sense to me.

You might be a plantaholic if you see a house for sale with horrible landscaping and are just itching to "fix it up" a bit so they can sell their house faster.

You might be a plantaholic if you know more about the plants at the nursery than the employees do.

You might be a plantaholic if every picture on display in your home is of a plant, tree, or flower.

I guess I'm a plantaholic, because I got "stuck" at the plant store this summer telling everyone what was right for their sun/shade. My friend tried to get the store to give me free plants for working the garden area for over an hour. I sold a whole lot of plants, the more expensive potting soil, a bench, a water fountain and tomato cages! The cashiers know me by name, and say "see you tomorrow" when I leave. Hmmm, maybe I do have a BIT of a problem.

Dear Cathy, YOU have a job, you're just not paid for it with regularly scheduled hours!!!

Good for you, cathy4!!!

Thanks for sharing,

Chuck

cathy4 I am so glad I a not the only one who forgets placing an order :o)

cathy4, you are So right on! My son bought a house in the summer, and the first thing I did was scout out the yard! LOL

And, something comes in the mail, and I say, "Well, wonder what that is!"

You go Cathy. You know how much people appreciate your knowledge!

You sound pretty normal to me cathy4.

You might be a plantaholic if you buy 12 calendulas to transplant when you have about 50 of them started indoors at home!!

Thanks,

Chuck

Chuck, sounds like we should be hanging out together at the 12-step place for plantaholics. I've got dibs on the coffee grounds for my compost!

What a hoot we are! Ha Ha Ha Ha What a hoot we are!!!

You might be a plantaholic if you convince your spouce to read out loud at night so you can enjoy your novels and stilll look at seed and plant catalogues, make paper pots, clean and package seeds, or colour in garden sketches while he/she reads!

I am editing this to let you know that "spouce" is really supposed to be spelled "spouse" lol

This message was edited Oct 17, 2007 6:37 PM

Oh goodness... you will NEVER have RECOVERY with an enabler like that in your life!! hehehe But like I said in the first post, this is about DISCOVERY not recovery!!!

This message was edited Oct 17, 2007 3:26 PM

Goin' back near the top the seeds are ready at the 63 Diner........ Anybody want to go with me? We could ask for two doggie bags, one for the food and one for the seeds!