· Your neighbors recognize you in your pajamas, rubber clogs and a cup of
coffee.
· You drive around the neighborhood hoping to score “trash” to reuse in your garden.
· Your preferred winter reading material is seed catalogs.
· You grab other people's banana peels, coffee grinds, apple cores, etc. for
your compost pile.
· You have to wash your hair to get your fingernails clean.
· All your neighbors come and ask you questions.
· You know the temperature of your compost every day.
· You buy a bigger truck so that you can haul more trees, shrubs and mulch.
· You enjoy swatting Japanese beetles into soapy water and watching them drown.
· Your boss makes "taking care of the office plants" an official part of your
job description.
· Your non-gardening spouse becomes familiar in botanical names.
· You find yourself deadheading flowers wherever you
go.
· You dumpster-dive for discarded bulbs after commercial landscapers remove
them to plant annuals.
· You plan vacation trips around the locations of flower shows, botanical gardens, arboreta,
historic gardens, etc.
· You sneak home a 7 foot Japanese Maple and wonder if your spouse will
notice.
· When considering your budget, plants are more important than groceries.
· You always carry a shovel, bottled water and a plastic bag in your trunk as
emergency tools.
· You appreciate your Master Gardener/Certified Nursery Landscape Professional badge more than your jewelry.
· You spend more time chopping your kitchen greens for the compost pile than
for cooking.
· You like the smell of horse manure better than Estee Lauder.
· You rejoice in rain...even after 10 straight days of it.
· You have a compost container on your kitchen counter.
· Soil test results actually mean something.
· You'd rather go to a nursery to shop than a clothes store.
· You know that Seven is not a number.
· You take every single person who enters your house on a "garden tour."
Happy Gardening!