One of my favorites. Fits me to a T! I have six shrubs and a tree that I need to plant. Planted two trees last week-a Swamp White Oak and an Amelanchier. Trying to add more natives. That means I need to order more plants to up the count! ;-)

Yes I can totally relate.

Today was opening day at my favourite greenhouse. I came home with 54 perennials and some annuals for my planters. Not to mention the other perennials I have previously purchased waiting to be planted. Plus I have many seeds started in my sunroom. Oh and I forgot...a couple of mail orders I’m waiting on also.

.......And my all of my beds are pretty much full already!

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From Wikipedia:

(note F.)

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition,[12] the symptoms for hoarding disorder include:

A. Persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value.B. This difficulty is due to a perceived need to save the items and to distress associated with discarding them.C. The difficulty discarding possessions results in the accumulation of possessions that congest and clutter active living areas and substantially compromises their intended use. If living areas are uncluttered, it is only because of the interventions of third parties (e.g., family members, cleaners, authorities).D. The hoarding causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning (including maintaining a safe environment for self and others).E. The hoarding is not attributable to another medical condition (e.g., brain injury, cerebrovascular disease, Prader-Willi syndrome).F. The hoarding is not better explained by the symptoms of other mental disorders (e.g., obsessions in obsessive-compulsive disorder, decreased energy in major depressive disorder, delusions in schizophrenia or another psychotic disorder, cognitive deficits in major neurocognitive disorder, restricted interests in autism spectrum disorder).

Rifis that may fit some people and I knew a close person to me who was a hoarder. But if I don't like a plant I shovel prune it and replace it with something else and I've been giving away plants to family and neighbors. While roses are my favorite, I stopped purchasing too many roses because I can't handle the extra work and care that roses need. Right now I'm more interested in buying easier plants. I only don't have the space I'd like to do it, which makes a substantial difference.

Lol hoarding is completely different than being a Gardener. Addiction is more like it!!

All you have to do is group the unplanted potted plants together all in one spot near a spigot. Then it isn't a plant hoard, it's a pot ghetto.

See!

Different!

And kept watered they will grow all over each other and root into the ground beneath.

Same as packing them too close together in a bed, but without all the effort and labor of taking them out of the pots and digging holes for them.

(Or so I've been told anyway. Because I of course don't have any [cough] personal experience with any of this).

Garden Ho--FIFTY FOUR perennials?! Amazing, because in my opinion your garden looks "complete."

Lightning did not strike, so I'll continue...

Hoarders keep their hoard hidden away. Gardeners share their hoard with anybody who can see, and even enjoy giving a tour. Sounds like we need a new definition in the dictionary of mental disorders.

And, I came home today with TWO perennials, so BAM! (What does that mean if I only purchased two? Am I out of the club?)

Lol Deanna, of course you’re still in the club!! You just didn’t see anything else worth buying lol.

(The perennials I bought are just little ones :)

Marigold I loved your story, thanks for sharing.

When people are trying to sell me plants, I tell them I'm not allowed to buy any new ones until I plant the ones I have already bought.
Of course I live alone and I'm only accountable to myself, and that rule completely goes out the window when a cute plant is calling out to me to take it home.

But officially, that is the goal.
Carla in Sac

I keep saying that I have enough roses for all my garden plans, and then I keep finding more....enabled by my lovely husband who says things like "Honey if you find a rose you like, buy it, or you might regret it if you can't find it next year."!!!

Joey, looking back that's true. I wanted to buy a "Flutterbye" rose bush several years ago. Come to find out it's almost impossible to get it now.

Where did you find that husband joey! I keep him if i were you.. Smiley face

Ahem....I must be totally addicted coz I sneak my plants in and pretend they were already there. My husband plays along...

I have a 'rule' that I try to follow- get all the waiting plants in the ground before a new order arrives. I typically hit up Lowe's every Friday morning to see what's new for the weekend crowd and husband helps me get them in the ground over the weekend.

But I also have quite a healthy Ebay/Etsy addiction and those typically arrive mid week, so it can be quite the juggling act.

I don't buy large plants so it's fairly easy to get 20 or 30 planted in one afternoon. But I have a huge garden in it's last stage- perennials- and I am obsessed with eventually getting that overstuffed perennial garden look that we all love.

I have 64 little things to get planted today- mostly small cell pack plants to fill in holes and use in containers- I have a lot of whisky barrels scattered about to hold punchy annual types like sunpatiens, coleus, petunias etc. But next week I have another 30 coming, mostly baptisia that I have recently become obsessed with, so finding exactly the right spots for all them will be my goal next week. I did kinda/sorta count how many I needed but somehow I will either have too many or not enough.

Does anyone else do this? I tend to get obsessed with one plant group per year and buy everything I can within that group. One year I was hosta nuts, another year irises, last year it was serrata hydrangeas, and this year it seems to be baptisa.

reposting this - anyone feel this way?

So I can add a dimension to this. After wintersowing many dozens of varieties, my spring time ritual is trying to remember where in the samhill I put everything. It's harder to remember when they are seedlings, which means they spend a good deal of the summer VERY SMALL. Some flower before summer's end, and I can remember those as their colorful advertising campaign clearly embeds in my brain. Thank you, salvias! This morning's chore--reading through last year's notes and diagrams to try to figure out where everything is. The plunkers are the hardest to remember, meaning the seeds I bought out of impulse so they clearly didn't have a place in the garden, nor a garden area that needed them.

I'm pretty good about not buying too many plants. Now, that is. In the past my pot ghetto numbered about 200-225 pots. But I did just wintersow about 3500 seeds this winter. So, same outcome, different method lol. I guess in some ways it's a bit better since I WS mostly annuals, and so those do need to be re-sown each year, so the accumulation is smaller. But really, who needs to sow 3500 seeds? Even if you account for non-germination, it's more than enough. But you never know and one must be sure to have enough flowers..... even if you have no idea where you'll put them....

Marigold, thanks so much for posting this cartoon. I loved it and identified immediately, as I'm sure most of us did. And i shared it with so many gardening friends, who also loved it, so thanks!

:)

Dee

Pretty funny! But I do think it's an addiction, and it kind of dovetails with this website which definitely feeds the addiction. My pot ghetto keeps getting bigger and I propagate a lot of plants so I do a LOT of watering. I have a lot of roses planted that create the backbone, but I want to grow a lot of other kinds of plants, so stick them in, and now I love clematis and bought at least 60 kinds, and if I plant all those in the ground it is going to be a total jungle. I will have to weed out some least favorite. Maybe find homes for them.

There is a novel out there about a couple...the guy was a hoarder. I think it's called The Hoarder..I'll look. But it is very kindly yet insightful about the hoarder. He is always finding good deals, neat things....life shouldn't be so full of marvelous stuff!

Some people can enjoy marvelous stuff that somebody else owns and takes care of. My mother loved animals but didn't want a lot of them. A plant doesn't just sit there, it does its thing, completes the whole, is not totally predictable.

We are all rose shopaholics at different degrees. Lol Now I am at a stop right now, don’t know where to plant/transfer the roses from my old garden due to water sources. The spots near the house are almost full. I also have a thing with clothing shopping too, if I see something I really really like at a good price, I might buy every single one on the rack, and share a couple with DD and a few left became backups. Lol Just bought 9 pairs of classic looking rose sweatpants in gray, the roses look like DA roses, really really pretty, I couldn’t just walk by without getting any, somehow every pair on the rack ended in my cart. This is called smart buy, stock up supplies. Lol I will take a pic for you later. Will see if you agree with me. :-)

Those are great! I never get rid of any of my clothes. And I've been collecting vintage and all of my mom's clothes since I was a kid. Thank goodness they all still fit. My friends call my cedar closet the archive! But I'm the same way when I like something. Not that I buy more than 1 cause usually it's not available, but I always wear the same style of certain things snd am slwsys on the hunt for replacement.Picky picky picky. 've noticed wooll clothing is become very expensive though. And that's usually what I wear all winter. Well, except these past couple of winter's now it's jersey and fleece and pull on pants!! People give me clothes a lot for some reason and those are usually what I wear out in the garden except now I have my darling Flowered coveralls And garden boots! I'm so happy to Have those. Thinking about it summer those sweatpants are too cute to garden, at least my kind of gardening! Or should I call you Imelda!😄

I hear you Vap. The best of all they were only $6.99 per pair! :-) I can't wear good clothes with a puppy, He got teeth and tiny sharp nails. Just one bite, one scratch would make a hole. So those pants are prefect for puppy care, garden work. :-)

Those are cute pants, Summers. I have some of my parents' old clothes. My mom was into ballroom dancing and had some beautiful gowns. She had tons of clothes, all way too small for me. She was tiny, 5 1" then shrank some and weighed about 79 pounds when she was 88. I have a bunch of old hats of hers from the 40''s and 50's. Old gloves. Scarves. I gave away a lot of her clothes because she was practical and would have wanted someone to get some use out of them.

I don't garden in anything good. Sometimes I wear shirts that already have holes in them.

That is wonderful that you have some of her clothes. I have acquired many beautiful things From others sharing. 1 of my neighbors had a /unfortunatelyAnd her daughter Got rid of all of her clothes. I was the beneficiary of many of them including shoes we happened to be exactly the right size. New and old. My best friend's mom was model and she also had great fantastic clothes from when they lived in europe most of their life so I have some rocking 60s and 70s outfits.

Joey - your husband sounds wonderful!! :) :)

Embothrium - cough, ahem....of course you don't have experience with that. Neither do I. LOL

Rekha - :) :) your husband sounds pretty smart and great! :)

Jeb - I haven't seen that one before....love it!!

Marigold - I love that cartoon...my favorite!!

Summers - I love those pants!! Really beautiful!!

cearbhaill, yes the juggling act! But after learning I need to order early for hard to get plants before they once again become unavailable I had no choice but to order them in Feb. I've been patiently waiting since then, I have 3 orders that are supposed to ship tomorrow. Once I get them in the ground I'll see what's next.

When I began gardening I thought all I need are roses, a few hydrangeas my potted annuals and that's it. Occasionally I'd get free plants from certain companies like daylilies, then I'd learn about daylilies and I got hooked. I began researching other perennials and began getting hooked on blanket flowers, the follow year coreopsis, then I became obsessed with coneflowers, now I'm addicted to heucherellas.

I also planted several small crape myrtle trees and a Vitex Shoal Creek Chaste tree. Pictured is Vitex it's not my tree, mine is still small but it has buds on it and it's getting ready to take off and bloom.

deanna, I have everything written on word pad to the best of my ability, plant type, year, whether they survived or not and where they're placed. For example echinacea cara mia yellow 2019 to the right of the maple tree, died replace with x. It's still not always easy to figure out!

"I sneak my plants in and pretend they were already there."

A page right out of my playbook....LOL!!

For all the mothers, now it's the time to buy more roses and plants at your honey bunnies' expense, Mother's day is coming! :-)

Marigold - wow! That tree is stunning!

Summers - I'm counting all of the roses/soil/tools that I've boughten this year as part of that. LOL

Because is almost May the 4th be with you 🤪

Ceres - May the 4th be with you!!! Love it!!! And the young and old Yodas are perfect!!! :) :)