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Wish me well, checking into rehab...

17 years ago

It's now time. I've hit rock bottom at last, and I can't find anyone willing to enable me with my addiction anymore. I've fallen lower than Amy Winehouse. I'm suffering from shakes, seizures, shivers and shimmies - violent withdrawal symptoms as my brain and body go through a heart wrenching detox.

For the last time today, I walked in my garden to get my fix of daylilies. There were only two, 'Light Years Away' and some old short statured, late bloomer whose name I forget, which I observed avidly, shaking, but within minutes I needed to see more. Alas, there was only foliage and dried out stems on the horizon.


Sigh.

In a last ditch, not pun intended, last ditch effort to find daylilies, I found myself scouring the GardenWeb forum, a safe injection site, for pictures from other addicts late gardens. I only found a few; soon enough, I found myself eying more daylilies on a very dangerous place known as the daylily auction, where many friends and acquaintances are grasping with the horrors of seedmaniatis, elbowing each other out of their last pennies in order to get the purest, best quality seeds for next years garden.

PLEASE DO NOT ENABLE ME. Do not post more pictures of daylilies. OK. One last one. I'll take one last one. Then it's rehab, also known as winter.

Comments (7)

  • 17 years ago

    LOL....you had me going for a second there when I read your subject line! Now I'm rotfl at you, although, I totally understand. I'm doing the same down here. I had two named ones blooming today and one little noid, so I'm ready for my "fix" too! I've been spending far too much time on the LA myself lately, but I sure have got some beauties coming to show for it, albeit, my pocketbook is suffering greatly!!
    Maybe someone will take pity on us "addicts" soon and post some blooms for us to gaze at. :)
    Thanks for the two you posted, but they won't hold me for long. LOL
    Jan

  • 17 years ago

    OMG!!! My counselor told me to avoid people like you... she wants me to befriend clean people, safe people... no more fellow daylily addicts! She suggested people that like "things with wheels."

    Say do you want to spend the night under the bridge? We can share bud count stories... one last night... before we check in!

  • 17 years ago

    If you were planting seeds right now, it could save you. It's like this ... as soon as your feet hit the floor in the morning, you grab a cup of coffee and run for the closeted bowl of soaking seed packets. You then eye each one carefully to search for sprouted seeds. Then the real fun begins ... punch holes in cups, write crosses on them with a Sharpie, stuff them full of seed starter mix, make marks around the rims where you plant the seeds, punch litte oval holes in the mix with the eraser end of a pencil, gently place the seeds on their sides, cover them barely, set them in a pan of water, and put a baggie over the cup. You then refill the seed packets with fresh solution, stuff them back in the closet, and by then it is 12 noon. It then takes awhile to clean up your mess. This goes on and on, ad infinitum. In the meanwhile, you peer at all the cups of planted seeds to search for GREEN - the signal to remove the baggies.

    This should help you deal with your addiction, once the flowers have quit blooming. You might spend the afternoons tilling up more ground and adding compost, sand, alfalfa pellets, or other interesting additions. And don't forget to pull off the yellowing leaves every day - and pull up any invading weeds while you are at it. If you'd come on and move down here to Texas, you could also fight our fire ants --- get them before they get you!

    All of the above will not cure your addiction, but it will take the edge off it.

    Nancy

  • 17 years ago

    Oh My Goodness,This is just too funny.BUT, guess I will join the addition party and have to go to rehab. too Altho,I don't think no rehab is going to help any of us with this addition. I spent 3 hours yesterday going back about 30 days,looking at every ones photos of all their gorgeous daylilies again.I don't have any blooming right now,and only 2 with rebloom scapes.My one NOID that had been blooming non stop since the 1st of may had 2 more scapes coming up,and the deer found them after this rain and ate them,so no reblooms on that one.I had been spraying the half dozen I have planted where deer can get to them,but the rain washed my stuff off them,and the deer got them.Made me so angry and sick about it.I was really looking forward to seeing some more blooms on it. You could do what I been doing this past week,is pulling weeds out inbetween rain showers and storms.

    Jean

  • 17 years ago

    Let me first start by saying I love your NOID. I've never seen one like it and it's beautiful.
    Secondly, just do what I have been doing - spending hours looking at all the gorgeous DL pics on marietta gardens website. I printed out the bazillion page price list/directory and then look at all the pics on their site and when I see one I love I highlight it on my printout. Of course, it's all just to pass the time and feed my addiction because most of them I'll never be able to afford. But, I tell myself that if I win the lottery they will all be mine. (but you gotta play to win so that'll never happen).
    Feel free to join me on marietta gardens!

  • 17 years ago

    Heck, there is an easy way off this high. It's not as addicting, and it doesn't give you the same buzz, but it will take the edge off until you can get the good stuff.
    Roses.

  • 17 years ago

    Not me, I am not interested in getting rid my my daylily addiction. My garden has never looked better since I added daylilies and the daylilies make me happy. Works for me.