Sticky pots, or should I say bags!

 I was perfectly minding my own business when I was doing some shopping
at the China supporting crap hole and I saw this woman with a cart
loaded with Asian lily bulbs.  Originally 8 dollars, now SEVENTY FIVE
CENTS!  I ran out there to the garden center, the knee all of a sudden
didn't hurt as much, and I saw this throng of grabbers and got in
there and bought about ten bags of things, Asian lilies, liatris,
Louisiana iris, etc.  Okay, actually much more than ten bags, but in
case my husband is lurking we'll say ten...

Anyway, now that I have them where am I ever going to plant them?  I
have a garden which encompasses a half acre and I have totally run out
of room; but when I get home tomorrow from my MRI I plan to get the
giant umbrella out which has a place on my garden cart (put there by
using tie wraps and some PVC pipe), put Mika Bird (our Hahn's Macaw)
into her outside cage, hang her on her traveling shepherd's hook, and
take out whatever is left of a teeny piece of St. Augustine which is
in the sun and plant my tubers and bulbs.  

Every year I swear I am not going to put anything new in.  
Every year I put new things in.  I surrender.

I am a plantaholic and my life has become unmanageable.
I believe I can and will be restored to sanity.
I have turned my will over to however my knee feels on the day I want
to garden.
I will take a moral inventory of all the money I've spent and didn't
tell Mark.
I will share it with someone other than Mark.

I'm not ready for the rest, but I've done all 12 many times, at
different levels of sobriety, and have stayed sober for 24 years~

Carry on.

said with excruciating love of gardening and fellow garden addicts,
Victoria

 

I have surrendered, also.  The one saving grace is that I'm now
(again!) out in other people's gardens, too, getting paid for my
addiction.


It's the best addiction one can have, I do believe.


And I want to cure!

Absolutely.  We haven't discussed sticky pots for quite a while!  I
haven't made my pilgrimage to Hillbilly Acres over in Scituate where I
get into the most trouble.  It's coming.....
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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 On 4/25/07 11:01 PM, in article th4033dt9i3naqtd7h37njrid083i0tseq@4ax.com,


And what gardener here wouldn't do the same. The only reason I wouldn't is
the ground is frozen!

C

 On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:40:50 -0400, Cheryl Isaak


Ah the days when I lived in the tundra!  Around here we are soon
entering the "too late" category of planting. Summer blooming bulbs,
tubers, corms and rhizomes are easy to plant even in the heat, but
that's about it.

We missed the harsh storms the other night, but not too far from us
houses were blowing Dorothy about.  I love everything about Austin,
but I freak out every spring with the tornado warnings (which means a
tornado was spotted).

I wouldn't move back up to New York unless someone paid me a lot of
money.

V

 

Still?  You must be way up there in Cow Hampshire <G>
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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