Is Plant Passion a Problem?

I ’m not saying I have an obsession with terra firma top , but I am certainly very passionate about them . Of course , it is someone else ’s break , the guilty parties in this example being Thomas Rainer and Claudia West , the author ofPlanting in a Post - Wild World . In this book they strongly notify us gardeners to pay attention to the small layer of the garden , which when planted leave all the benefits of mulch and more . There is much more to their case — and to the Word , so I advocate register it .

My warmth for land covers has taken the form of buying anything I see that is n’t as common as pachysandra and that diffuse , but in a nice way . So I was very concerned in Joann Vieira ’s clause “ Problem - Solving Ground Covers ” . It is the best kind of clause in that it commend works I am not familiar with and now desire to grow , as well as plants that I love and have always wanted to develop . The only matter missing is a few plants that I am already growing . That would permit me know I am on the correct track and would provide a little ego encouragement , too .

But I have enough basis covers now to make me need , What is the remainder between passion and compulsion ?

I would say you have a gardening compulsion if you start garden your neighbour ’s property when your neighbor has never bid you to do so . If you end a friendship over a clem - a - tis / cle - lusterlessness - is parameter , you have a horticulture obsession . So , too , if you go to your favorite nursery and realize you already have every plant they sell , even the I you do n’t really like . If you grow some plants because they are uncommon , but they are every bit unremarkable , you might have an compulsion .

Have you pass over a transmission line if your daughter catch up with you ask your newly plantedIsotoma fluviatilisto “ just cover that area so I do n’t have worry about it ” ? And then when she will , you immediately apologize to your plant for deny that you were talking to them , pleading , “ You know I did n’t mean that , right ? ” Maybe that is an compulsion . But it is n’t a problem until the works start talking back .

— Steve Aitken , editor in chief

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