Have you ever gotten plants and then couldn't decide what to do with them? Where to put them? Maybe they just don't fit into any theme? OK, from the plant swap I got carried away. Some got planted. Some of those turned into gifts for friends, but I still have a carex and yucca from that excursion. These like the kangaroo paw were to go in the front street strip. Now I am just not sure. I also kind of changed my mind in midstream and was thinking the potted magnolia tree might look better out there. Well things will stay in pots for a while longer. Decisions, decisions...then there is another plant swap in May...maybe they could find new homes? It is so dangerous going to plant swaps though. I'd hate to end up with even more orphan plants. I didn't used to have this problem. :-?
This happens to me all the time! I go to a garden center/plant sale and see a plant I don't have or think I need. Then I get home and can't decide what to do with it! The plant(s) then sit around in their pots for most of the summer while I try to decide where to put them. Last fall, I had to create a new garden for them! This year I am a step ahead of myself because there is lots of room in that new bed!
One of my co-workers is always bringing in stuff that she's thinning out. And naturally I always want them. But just like you, once I get home, I can't decide what to do with some of them, or even if I really want them. My solution... pot them up and put them to the side for the up-coming plant sale at the church.
Jewell...I agree with cheryl....donate them or toss them...especially that yucca. If you have never had a yucca you will soon learn they are horribly dangerous. The edges are like serrated knives. DON'T rub against them as you are working around them. They will slice you all up. I know the flowers are beautiful and they have a unique contrast as a plant, but I look at them from afar and leave them in someone elses flowerbed.
Welcome to my world I have plants out front now in pots waiting for the location of their new home to be determined. The Yucca will make a good fence type plant if you have people, like the mail man, who think they have to walk through your yard. I have a large white one still in the pot that I bought about 3 years ago, I really need to get that thing in the ground this spring.
I daren't take a photograph of all the plants that I have to try and make space for. They're on the patio, in the greenhouse, on an outside table, under the table on chairs and any other space I can put them. Am I a plantaholic? OH YES!! Thank goodness my daughter has her own gardening business so that I can offload some of them to her.
I now have 6 new plants waiting for homes. We went to Lowe's....need I say more? We had to go through the garden center to find the reed fence panels for the back yard and right passed the clearance carts. Snapdragons were $1.00 for a 6 inch pot so I got 5. And I found a hot orange color Calibrachoa for a cute orange pot I have....okay so that one does have a specific home to go to...but the others do not yet.
OK, I hate to one up you all, but I'm going to anyway. I don't even have a garden, and yet I'm STILL buying plants! Went to Home Depot with the kids because they needed to purchase some stuff for the new backsplash they wanted to install, and ended up with 4 plants from the clearance section of the store! Really? Did I just do that? Yes. Yes I did. Paige asked me what I was going to do with them. I said I'd figure out something. They're currently still sitting in their pots. What is WRONG with me?
Ronni, You have a very contagious disease. It's 'needplantsfordaughtersgarden' and it is itchy. There are times that you just can't shake it. There is no real cure for it but you can learn to live with it by doing what you have done. The next step is to GET THEM IN THE GROUND QUICKLY. That should satisfy that itch for a little while until you pass by a place with flowers for sale. Then you get sick all over again. But you finish it all with a SMILE.... :-D :-D Having minutes of joy will eventually add up to hours. I know this for sure.
Bread to sustain the body A flower to sustain the soul Or something like that from an old Chinese proverb....Ronni I think that sums it up for all of us
Heck I had customer who had many flats-no room. I took to school for them to sell. they sold well. I have taken to habit tat -they sell and buy lumber
