The Crazy Gardener's Creed

Crazy_Gardener

15 years ago

I want it.

I want it all.

I want it now.

If it will not grow in my zone or is prohibitively expensive, I want it most of all.

I am perfectly willing to forego any necessities of life such as food for my children in order to have it.

I recognize my horticultural dependency.

I recognize your horticultural dependency.

I will willingly aid and abet your dependency, as you aid and abet mine. This makes us infinitely happy.

All money saved by virtue of comparison shopping equals found money and is therefore not counted as spending.

If everyone else has it, I must have it too.

If no one else has it, I must get it first.

If I have planted everything I have already purchased, I must immediately buy more plants.

At this point, it is customary to recite your visa number from memory.

~Author unknown~

How many of you can relate to this?

Sharon

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Comments (12)

bdgardener
15 years ago
Oh sooooooooooooo true!!!!! This describes me to a "T" I'm still flipping through catalogs, looking and comparing. Any plant that someone mentions on this site I make a note of for the must haves. I will be ripping out more grass this summer to fit my purchases so far and I have not even been to a garden centre. Cheryl
digicam
15 years ago
Amen to that!
Rick
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valleyrimgirl
15 years ago
I can relate to some of those sentences!!!!!

I absolutely will "willingly aid and abet your dependency, as you aid and abet mine". I have been known to do so (just a few times!). :) Feel free to go to the Far North Gallery and make your wish list as you look thru the alphabets. All the plants I have posted are here in my yard (unless stated otherwise).

Comparison shopping and then sharing 1/2 with a friend are a few ways of keeping the costs down when purchasing the 'must have' perennial.
The last few years I have been planting until freezeup all the perennials I thought I needed that I bought in spring and summer.

"If everyone else has it, I must have it too."......... Some of the plants, that everyone else has, aren't necessarily plants I want in my yard, like some of the self seeding varieties.

I also know my MC number by heart.

Brenda
marciaz3 Tropical 3 Northwestern Ontario
15 years ago
Absolutely NOT - what the heck do you think i am???

LOL
Pudge 2b
15 years ago
Author unknown??? I thought you etched it in slate and decreed it from the top of the mountain the first time you ever picked up a trowel.
Ginny McLean_Petite_Garden
15 years ago
Oh dear!I AM in trouble! I have only recently started to get into "real" gardening and I am already living the creed! Is there really no hope?.........well, at least I won't be lonely.

Ginny
beegood_gw
15 years ago
Words to live by!!!!
savona
15 years ago
I can relate to the creed..I just wish my pocket book could relate to it..hahaha..Jean
prairierose
15 years ago
I think I need to print that out, frame it with some dried flowers, and hang it above my planting sink in the basement.

Connie
celtic_07
15 years ago
I THINK YOU ALL MUST HAVE BEEN TALKING TO MY HD!!!!!
I think that I'm in a pretty special class of friends. My Hd sometimes refers to my as the Perennial B. as I'm always talking ( complaining/bragging) about some plant,shrub,tree etc.,that one: must, should, could,would have and /or need,desire You all get the picture.hahaha
Lois
debbie_z2
15 years ago
and I can relate to your comment Jean! LOLS
Deb
gladzoe
15 years ago
Fits me to a T, the more I see the more I need, despite not having any more garden room.