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*Your neighbors recognize you in your pajamas, rubber clogs and a cup of coffee
*You grab other people’s banana peels, coffee grinds, apple cores, etc. for your compost pile.
*You have to wash your hair to get your fingernails clean.
*You buy a bigger truck so that you can haul more mulch. 
*You find yourself feeling leaves, flowers and trunks of trees wherever you go, even at funerals
*You plan vacation trips around the locations of botanical gardens, arboreta, historic gardens, etc.
*When considering your budget, plants are more important than groceries 
*You always carry a shovel, bottled water and a plastic bag in your trunk as emergency tools
*You like the smell of horse manure better than Estee Lauder
*You rejoice in rain…even after 10 straight days of it.
*You have pride in how bad your hands look.
*You have a decorative compost container on your kitchen counter. 
*You can give away plants easily, but compost is another thing. 
*You’d rather go to a nursery to shop than a clothes store. 
*You know that Sevin is not a number
*You take every single person who enters your house on a “garden tour”
*You ask for tools for Christmas, Mother/Father’s day, your Birthday and any other occasion you can think of.
*You can’t bear to thin seedlings and throw them away.
*You drive around the neighborhood hoping to score extra bags of leaves for your compost pile
*Your preferred reading matter is seed catalogs 
*And last but not least: You know that the four seasons are: Planning the Garden- Preparing the Garden - Gardening - Preparing and Planning the next garden!
Preparing and Planning for the next Garden

Lovingly borrowed from the pages of my garden club newsletter.....

*You grab other people’s banana peels, coffee grinds, apple cores, etc. for your compost pile.

So, I'm not the only one who finds it physically painful when perfectly lovely organic waste ends up in the garbage instead of the compost? 

Good one Kathy. I got a chuckle.

*You grab other people’s banana peels, coffee grinds, apple cores, etc. for your compost pile.

So, I'm not the only one who finds it physically painful when perfectly lovely organic waste ends up in the garbage instead of the compost?  

OK...OK, {confession time}... a couple of years ago...My mom was freezing a large amount of bananas......I mean several boxes of them....I took all of her banana peels.....they were for my roses.....and don't get me started on other people's eggshells.....

Good one Kathy. I got a chuckle.

Thanks Nico.....Some of the things us gardeners do for our plants would keep you in stitches....like today for instance.....my hubby complaining about the Amish horse and buggy leaving his mark...what he sees as Horse Sh*T.....I see as gold for the bloomers.....a nice warm tea made for my petunias and lilies....and the roses are loving it...kind of like a cat on a bit of nip....dontcha know

As I was watering my mandevillae plant this past winter....(which proudly & safely overwintered in my home for 4 years now)  ......

I noticed a plant growing.... I gave it a chance, sometimes I throw seeds to grow things that may take awhile to get going for the next year......into my big planter.

So.......while examining this plant a few days ago ......I have come to this conclusion, I didn't plant this, the wind did.

 I have identified this as a 2 foot white birch tree.......I have 2 of them in my yard, and I now have 2 of them in my pot.
 
So, it has led me to believe that while there were catkins on my tree....they blew into my planter while it was sitting on the deck......

I guess we have some new family members in the garden of weedin'