That some of the people from the favorites forum who gripe about their neighbors should move into my neighborhood.

Mine's a lot like yours, Peachiekean: I let my dogs out in the morning to find that Ontario Hydro has dug a ten foot deep trench across my front lawn and is levelling all the young spruce trees (which I planted in my field across the road seven years ago) to build a great sprawling administration building. That's my nightmare, but the reality isn't so great either. When I first moved here a stream flowed through and pickerel swam up every year to spawn. In constructing high voltage power lines Ontario Hydro left trees lying in the stream bed downstream and effectively ruined it for fish.

Peachiekean, (and Cyniska)
Strange...I have also had that nightmare several times about city workers leveling my garden bed by the road! Right now, my nightmare is more often about bugs (slugs, Japanese beetles, etc...) having big, all night parties in my flowers!

Anne-Marie
NY-zone 5

The other week I came home to find that the power company had come to trip some of the branches on my oak tree that were getting close to the power lines. They didn't take any consideration for the plants (or the satallite dish) that was underneath their trimming. There was a newly established rock garden with beautiful cacti and grasses and they let the large limbs fall all over and squish everything. There was also potted plants containing a huge yucca, morning glories, dwarf indian hawthorn, and my lovely bird of paradise plant. All squished. Not to mention the satallite dish that was ding and scratched. Needless to say, I wasn't pleased!

I had a real dream about two months ago where I was awakened to the sounds of grazing sheep. I went outside and there were sheep eating my perrenials down to their roots. There was a young fellow on a horse tending them and he had a dog with him that was directing the sheep to the parts of my yard that hadn't been eaten.

When I complained to this feller, he told me that his pa owned the grazing rights to the neighborhood and I'd have to take it up with him. The boy also said the neighbors were happy to see him cause they didn't need to mow this week.

That's all I remember, but as you can imagine, counting sheep isn't the way I want to go to sleep.

I had a beautiful dream... about the nightmare I'm working on right now, maybe it's the opposite for a southpaw.

Cindy

I find that I dream about my gardens, not nightmares, but actually creative dreams. If I'm working on an area and can't quite figure out what to do with it, it bugs me. And I'll just leave it and come back to it later. Usually, one night I dream abuot the area and what it looks like with things planted it that I had not even imagined. Then I get up the next morning all gung-ho and rush out to work on it. Pretty cool!

NancyAnn

Giant grasshoppers, I mean really BIG ones...their mouths are so big I can fit my fist into them....they eat their way thru my collection of 70 some staghorn ferns & leave only the mount board or bare rootball behind. Of course I have a real problem with them...but not on that magnitute...close though! lol

My previous garden was dreadfully overrun with oxalis, and I had regular nightmares about being overcome by monster oxalis while weeding.

I had one particularly vivid nightmare. -I got home from work to find that my husband had hired workers to weed the garden for me as a surprise; All that was left was the stepping stones...

Hey Casperr, that's a really good idea you gave me; I have this one difficult area in my yard, and I'm going to try to dream about it! Who knows, I may come up with a great solution in my sleep! Thanks,
coolbeans

Only lately

I dreamed that the weeping willow was taking over my bedroom. Does that count?

One time I dreamed that when I went out to the front yard, millions of mushrooms popped up and covered everything. It was wierd.

I have nightmares about those green beetles coming down from MI & killing the 2 ash trees that keep the front of my house & driveway in shade.

Shortly after we bought our acreage I had a dream that my Dad came over to help out and "limbed" up all my lovely fir and pine trees in the back yard 12' high so I could now mow under them. And then he cut down all the trees in the front of my house so we could have a better view and be able to mow easier. I tell you, I woke up in a cold sweat and went out straight out to check and make sure it was really a dream. ;)

Diann
IA z5

I dreamed that I was digging in my garden and hit a ball of hibernating rattlesnakes. YIKES! I woke up very quickly. Strange dream, since I don't think snakes hibernate in Florida.

We have a noise problem with the neighborhood children playing basketball in the street using a hoop at the end of the neighbor's driveway. I wrote a poem about it:

Solace in my garden
Takes a nasty turn
When the balls of children
Make the pavement burn.

Oh, those crazy boing sounds
And the thump thump thump
Make my head start spinning
And the daisies jump.

In my dream the other night, I was trying to work outside in my garden in back, and the boys and adult playing (with many balls) floated right over my head. It felt like my head was exploding. I woke up, and the nightmare was real.

I've woken up almost crying, more than once over a dream that we had sold the house and were moving into an apartment. The thought of ever having to leave my garden sends chills down my spine!

Every time I close my eyes, I can see burned into my retinas the image of the crabgrass I've been fighting all summer. My nightmares always revolve around having to spend the rest of my days on my hands and knees (I have terrible knees and can't even kneel) pulling out crabgrass, fingers cramped and bleeding, knees cut up and unable to even straighten anymore...ugh.

This was a repetative dream that I had a lot last spring. In my dreams I was constantly digging up plants and then replanting them in another spot. It never ended. Over and over all night. Not too exciting, but I would really wake up very tired. It did stem from reality- I had a lot to move and I was feeling overwhelmed.

I had another dream about getting bitten by a two-headed snake. Not sure what that means.

Hornworms. I've been raising a few into sphinx moths, and the other night i dreamt that i had a huge box of them, only they were brownish and were leaping all over me.

Yeeeeccchhhh!

I once dreamed that I had some turquoise and pink flowers. This confirmed that I dreamed in color. Funny, though, I don't usually feel heat or cold or wind in my dreams.

The only one was dreaming of coming across the world's best plant sale- you know- a multitude of large sized healthy specimens of exactly the plants you are wanting for like $1- and not having a penny to my name! Ouch!