A fun read for all you gardeners out there. As landscapers, we sure can relate!
It’s a small (gardening) world
{written by Tony Melton}
…I seem to run into Master Gardeners in all areas of my life. I am tickled to death when this happens because I think Gardening Folk (G-Folks) are the best…
Many of your friends and co-workers may be G-Folks and the following is a few ways you might be able to recognize them:
- G-Folks spend more money on plants than on their clothes.
- G-Folks buy at least 10,000 plants in the course of a lifetime without having the vaguest notion of where they’ll put any one of them.
- G-Folks let their world come to a grinding halt whenever a total stranger asks to see their garden.
- G-Folks think that anyone who buys tomatoes from a supermarket in the summer should be committed.
- G-Folks are surrounded by neighbors who think they’re crazy. (But gardeners know the non-gardeners are really the crazy ones!)
- G-Folks know a garden is never perfect because there is always at least 30 more things that need to be done.
- G-Folks are like Thomas Jefferson, who, when he found out that his garden was too big to handle, tripled its size the following year.
- G-Folks go to public and private gardens with a notebook, so they can drive their families insane while they take a half day to write down the name of every intriguing plant they see.
- G-Folks are so cheap that they save seeds for at least 10 years, but are such spendthrifts that they shell out thousands over the course of a lifetime for garden gadgets.
- G-Folks, during their lifetime, kill 10,000 plants that would have survived perfectly well without any assistance.
- G-Folks know they’re going to live forever. Why else would a 90-year-old gardener plant two oak tree seedlings and then look through a catalog for a hammock?
- And finally, a G-Folk goes back to the garden the next day after he/she had gone to the doctor because of bug bites or maybe a dog bite.
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