I couldn't help myself. I stopped by the Special Education Horticultural Outlet to drop off fresh dill (yes, I take dill to a plant nursery--don't ask, it's a long story) and they had 4" pots of herbs for $1. Have you ever seen a junkie in action? I came home with two pots of thyme, two of fennel, one marjoram, and one Greek oregano. I didn't need any of them since I'd started my own, except the fennel, but they called to me. Tiny herb voices saying, "Please take me home and plant me in the herb garden." I think I'll stop by again and listen to the voices . . . .
Always listen to those voices, they are all so sweet and innocent sounding...then they get their hooks in you and you are doomed to spend the rest of your days looking for more and more and more places where those sweet voices will talk to you. One day you realize that they are even talking to you from the pages of plant catalogs and through your computer at online nurseries. And worse yet is when you are looking at photos posted here on GardenStew of the gardens of other members and those sweet voices begin talking to you. Hmmm, suddenly I feel the need to go to the garden center at HD and look for strawberry plants and ..... everything else.
Yikes I will have to put cotton in my ears. I'm beginning to hear those little voices also. But I have no place to plant those sweet little things. Temps in the 30's is not conducive to green plant life survival.
Oh boy! I'm hearing them too! The voices I'm hearing are coming from the geraniums in front of BiMart :-o I want them soooooo bad but our weather is just too unpredictable too
Ronni, Just go to a nursery and stand very still. Soon you will hear the siren call of a plant, and then the chorus swells and you are deafened by a cacophony of plant voices. Ignore the basso profundos--they are usually invasive plants that will take over! Sopranos, on the other hand, tend to be delicate and very demanding. I prefer to stick with the plants that can take care of themselves, basically, and don't need much direction!
