You know you’re an obsessive gardener when ...

I'm glad the door opens from the inside Val

 

when you leave all the Sunday lunch pots & pans etc and come for nose on here instead

 

73) You invent excuses to drive past Wyevale so you can check whether the 50p seed sale has started

 

74) When you have builders here trying to discuss how you want the new roofs on your Kitchen and conservatory to be done but you're more interested on how you're going to create a Parterre

 

75) When you're away on holiday and you keep looking at the weather forecast for back home, hoping the house sitter is not over watering/under watering your plants.....
......and keeping on top of the courgettes
......and the tomatoes
......and what about that tray of seedlings in the greenhouse?

76) When the first thing you do on arriving home from said holiday is say "sod the unpacking, that can wait" and wander off down the garden with a cuppa, ostensibly to 'stretch my legs a bit' after the long drive, but really to see how everything has fared in your absence.

 

We recently went down to Somerset for a week and asked our neighbours if they could water our Xmas and Silver Birch tree that we have in large pots if the weather was dryish and to make sure our Acer was given lots of water as we had put it out in the ground the other year so wanted to make sure it was ok.Anyway got back home only to find that nothing had been watered because as my neighbour said there were a couple of storms while were away that watered the stuff.Problem was one of the pots had blown over because the top was heavier than the bottom as it hadn't been watered so the tree wasn't getting any water at all as the pot was on its side.

The best of it is we brought them a Thank you prezzie and then watered their garden, pots,hanging baskets(Mr Kandies job as I can't reach)and also turned the oscillator on and off to water the new turf that their gardener had replaced for the forth time due to the neighbours two dogs weeing all over the grass and sending it brown and then digging big holes in other parts of the lawn and all this was for over 16 days while they holidayed in the sun.

I sometimes think I have mug stamped across my forehead

 

77. You go out to hang washing on the line and need to shower again before work, because you just resist ignore tidying the beds by the line!
78. You find garden ties in your dressing gown pocket!

 

I started to read the thread to hubby, then stopped around no 35..... Stopped why the going was good

No 79 You request a Greenhouse for your 50th birthday when asked

 

No 80: You take to following the dogs around the garden in the morning with a pot of water to wash their morning pee off your plants

 

81....When you're going to bake Walnut and Banana loaves so you've got the Banana skins to ripen your tomatoes