It's a psychological problem some of us must face. lol I have the same disorder. :) I have tons of cuttings going and some starting in water as well. I can't stop myself either. BUT I do generally find homes for them ... or I find the perfect spot in the yard to put them .. eventually. When I prune a plant I hate to throw away the cuttings. Maybe we need to learn how to deal with our addiction. lol

Sharon, I like to find gardening friends with lots of land that needs filling up. I have done friend who just bough 5 acres, so I'm helping her fill it up. I deal with it by finding new places to plant things. I'm doing guerilla gardening around the complex, like I'm going to plant some lemon grass behind the pond where nobody ever mows, and I'll scatter some seeds here and there every year to make pretty things that nobody needs to take care of.

ETA: I'm not nearly as bad as I used to be. I used to give away literal pickup truck loads of plants when I had my house. I don't have room for that now, but I'll always figure out a way.

I can only do it in the summer when it's raining, because there is no irrigation here, but it would be worth it, I think, if some things "took." I'm going to try datura too, when they get some seeds, because they are actually a weed. Was also thinking this fall when I have to cut the angel trumpets back, that I would root one and plant it over by the pond once the rainy season comes next year, so it can get established. I want to do something that will also provide other gardeners here with seeds or cuttings if they want them for their own yards. Of course, there is always the possibility they will just go dig up the whole plant, but that's a chance you have to take. Keeping the yard crew out of things is the challenge. They almost ruined my outside garden until I got the manager to tell them to leave it alone.

We have a wooded area around two sides of the complex that I thought might be nice for trying to start some beautyberry or morning glories. The yard crew doesn't go over there. I found a beautyberry bush that I can gather seeds from to start some new plants. There are a lot of possibilities, but it would have to be mosty natives or drought-resistant plants, because there aren't many people who would want to water them.

Oh, I envy you on the guerilla gardening. Around here Chemlawn sprays everything in the common area, even where they don't mow. :(

writersblock, the only place here that is safe is in the edges of the wooded areas and the back of the pond where they don't mow. They either mow, spray or weedwhack everything else. I had problems even when I put up clear barriers in my area. However, now I have a guy working for them that is a gardener himself, so he treats my gardens very well. No doubt, he won't last long. *sigh*

We are lucky in that we have just under 5 acres - only the area around the house is domesticated. All kinds of native plants all around out in the woods. But I do have a bad habit of collecting all different kinds of plants for the "tamed" part even though I know that mass plantings of the same kind of plant looks much better than higgly piggly. It's a bad habit I can't seem to break. Yes I know with this much acreage I could expand the domesticated out but with the heat and my bad back and arthritic wrists it's hard enough to maintain what I do have going much less expanding it out. If I was 25 again I could get this place looking like Busch Gardens but that's not going to happen unless I hit the lotto.

I know Rita ... if I hit the Lotto I'm hiring a full time gardener ... and buying tons of plants! lol I know what you mean, my 2.5 acres is like that ... I have things I take care of right around the house and the rest is wild woods and I just mow walking paths for us and the dogs. It's nice, but I sure would like to have it like Busch Gardens or Cypress Gardens. :)

I've always said that if I won the lottery my first purchase would acreage to build my own garden center and botanical garden with huge greenhouses full of all my favorite plants. I had 5 acres once. It was way too much work for one person, and I was working and going to school too. I'm happy with where I am now. The lack of space keeps me from going crazy with my ZDD and Hoardiculture illnesses.