GARDEN ADDICT: NEW UPDATED CRITERIA

[cookiejar]

1. Do you find it hard to throw away a seed catalog, even when you have no intention of ever ordering from the company? (It's good reference material.)

 

2. When traveling, do you get out the hotel phone book and look for nurseries and garden centers there might be nearby?

 

3. Do you just have to have that zone 7 plant even though you live in zone 5 and you delude yourself by thinking you can create a microclimate for its survival? (Oh, and mulch for the winter will help, too.)

 

4. Can you walk out of places like Walmart without at least browsing through the garden section? (If you can, just skip the rest of the quiz. You're not even close to being addicted.)

 

5. Do you have a makeshift greenhouse set up in your basement so you can continue to garden throughout the winter, because you know you'll go mad by spring if you don't? (Give yourself extra points if your 'greenhouse' occupies your guest bathroom.)

 

6. Have you ever eaten a nasturtium?

 

7. Do you become intoxicated by the smell of mulch?

 

8. Have you ever mourned the loss of a plant after a brutal winter? (Be honest now.)

 

9. Do you know what a cotyledon is? And why it's important?

 

10. Do strangers ask you for advice when you're in the garden center, because they see you every time they are there and think you work there?

 

11. Do you spend more on plants each summer than you do on food to feed your family? (Or want to?)

 

12. Do people walk in your house and ask you if you like flowers? (And you say, "I guess so. But I only have 176 house plants." )

 

13. The names of your cats are Lily, Posey, Rose, Daisy, Fern, Violet, Poppy, and Iris. (Wait ... let's deal with one obsession at a time, shall we?)

 

14. Do you choose the vehicle you drive by how many plants you can haul in the back of it?

 

15. Do you Tivo Rebecca's Garden, The Victory Garden, Martha Stewart, Gardener's Diary, World Garden Tour, Secret Gardens Of..., Garden Sense, Grounds For Improvement, Fresh From the Garden, and Weekend Gardening?

 

16. Did you not even have to take this quiz to know that you are obsessed? (Dee,DogMom, Ginger)

 

 

[dogmom4]

Originally Posted By: cookiejar

1. Do you find it hard to throw away a seed catalog, even when you have no intention of ever ordering from the company? (It's good reference material.)
And the pictures are soooo pretty...let's you imagine what you want your garden to look like...

2. When traveling, do you get out the hotel phone book and look for nurseries and garden centers there might be nearby?
Nah....I just stop the car as we're driving by...

3. Do you just have to have that zone 7 plant even though you live in zone 5 and you delude yourself by thinking you can create a microclimate for its survival? (Oh, and mulch for the winter will help, too.)
Of course...gotta push that envelope somewhere.

4. Can you walk out of places like Walmart without at least browsing through the garden section? (If you can, just skip the rest of the quiz. You're not even close to being addicted.)
Nope

5. Do you have a makeshift greenhouse set up in your basement so you can continue to garden throughout the winter, because you know you'll go mad by spring if you don't? (Give yourself extra points if your 'greenhouse' occupies your guest bathroom.)
Do I get the points if it's set up in our garage conversion?

6. Have you ever eaten a nasturtium?
Of course! The leaves and the flowers! Have them growing all over my yard!

7. Do you become intoxicated by the smell of mulch?
Doesn't it smell so good?

8. Have you ever mourned the loss of a plant after a brutal winter? (Be honest now.)
Hmmm....I might get a little bummed...but that's why you grow more than one!

11. Do you spend more on plants each summer than you do on food to feed your family? (Or want to?)
Definitely have a long wish list...

14. Do you choose the vehicle you drive by how many plants you can haul in the back of it?
No...not plants...bags of soil and compost..

16. Did you not even have to take this quiz to know that you are obsessed? (Dee,DogMom, Ginger)
Yeah baby! I am a garden addict!!!