My name is Cheryl and I am addicted...

I have been for a number of years now, it is something my husband and I deal with each year, I wish I could say it

was getting better, but truth be told, I think its getting worse. 

I fight it, I really really do but it controls me each spring. Larry has threatened, cajoled,  pleaded and done just about

anything you can think of to get me to stop. I can't, it's a sickness with me. I know there are others that deal with

this as well. 

I don't think I am the only one, I know there are some others in town that are addicted as well. I have graduated

from local cheaper dealers to the Big Boys this last week. Way more money. No real way to hide it from Hubby either. 

As soon as he drives in he knows, there is simply no way for me to hide it - much. I can hide a little but my addiction

has just grown over time to the point that even the neighbors know about it. 

The really bad part tho is I am starting to turn kids on to it and at such a young age, I have hit bottom.

They say the first step is to admit it so here goes--

Well

I am an addict,

I am addicted to PLANTS

This is nirvana to me, a wheelbarrow full of fresh potting soil and plants, plants, plants.....

I went shopping at the Big Boy Nursery's this week, love their stuff but man the money you can drop is obscene.

I don't normally buy very expensive annuals because well they are annuals, but for the Garden Show this May I am

making an exception. 

This load had Kong Coleus which is new to me, some Fuchias and Oxalis, we shall see how they do in the garden. 

My mother watches these children and I thought they might enjoy planting in the garden. They did and I enjoyed

showing them how to. Getting a brand new generation addicted.

I am so bad.. they are only 3. Now maybe I can blame it on Mom, she has always had a Green Thumb, I have not.

Around the time I turned 35 my black thumb turned green. Up till then my children thought all houseplants were

fake because ours always were. 

The Garden brings  me piece, I can sit and soak up the light breezes and listen to the birds and watch the Mama Duck

and her new babies. You notice I did not say SUN, I have Lupus and cannot be in the sun so you will always see me in

long sleeve shirts and hats, year round. Luckily we have lots and lots of trees so our backyard is a shade garden. YAY

I can vividly remember one of my most content moments in the last couple of years, I was in the garden and decked out

in said Hat, shirt long pants etc just sitting there on a sack of compost and I was so at peace with myself the world, everything.

I wish I could find that feeling more often, I think it would be a better world if we could all find that feeling more. 

Well, I have come out of the closet now about my addiction, Please let me know if you are an addict too..

If you are and you live in Derby, there is a new Garden Club that has just started and I invite you to join.

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