December 2009 (Northern Hemisphere)

[angie]

 I'm quite a sensible old bat, really, you see!

 Maggi the first time I saw your garden I thought to myself how have they managed to gather all these amazing plants and the amount of treasures that
 you are growing made me drool , so I suppose what I am trying to say is why, why would you need any other plants than what you have already have
 in your paradise.
 Angie      

[Maggi Young]

Thank you, Angie!
 I suppose there is always a wee thochtie of the other man's grass is greener   

[mark smyth]

Maggi you made me go look up the plant 

[cohan]

   why would you need any other plants than what you have already have
 in your paradise.
 Angie      

because one develops a paradise like that because they love plants, and fall in love with new ones they see, and that doesn't stop when there is no more room. or money. or time.
though it sounds like maggi is more in control than some of us

[Maggi Young]

though it sounds like maggi is more in control than some of us

 Well , I do my best, Cohan, but the Bulb Despot is indeed a Despot!  

[Sinchets]

Or maybe because we all express the 'hunter gatherer' in us in different ways. Some people need to buy a new pair of shoes or a dress everytime they go to the shops (hello mum), some people horde and covet chocolate, some people just 'need' to grow everything. Self diagnosis time.

[mark smyth]

Maggi when he says "no" you know he means "no". I would say under cover of dark you could sneak out poke a wee hole with your finger, drop something in and walk away whistling to yourself 

[Lesley Cox]

Roger would like to be a despot and indeed was one, until he met me. If he says "no" I just laugh at him and go my own way so he rarely takes the risk now. He knows it won't work.

Cohan is right, it's the absolute requirement to try to grow something one loves, or at least is taken by. Just as well many of us have learned to live with the barest minimum of new clothes, visits to the hairdresser (I totally forgot my haircut appt yesterday and can't get another before mid Jan) and other things "normal" people take for granted.

I have never in my life spent a cent of anyone's money on plants, except my own, earned by me, so I have no feelings of guilt about what I spend. The bills still get paid on time and there will probably be enough when the time comes for a reasonably simple departure from this earth so what the heck?

[angie]

Lesley I couldn't have put it better myself. We only have one life and if it gives us pleasure why not, who needs fancy cloths when you can buy another plant. I do spend some of my husbands money but I think he has never noticed
Angie

[Lesley Cox]

If he has never noticed Angie, he must be an exceptional husband.

[Maggi Young]

If he has never noticed Angie, he must be an exceptional husband.

 Nah, it means Angela is an exceptional wife!! 

[Lesley Cox]

Of course.

[angie]

Thanks Maggie and Lesley 
Angie 

[Darren]

Am I the only husband in the world who has to practically force his wife to spend money?

re - Asphodelus acaulis - after seeing a fantastic one at the Blackpool show a few years back (completely prostrate tightly curled foliage and prominent flowers - there is probably a pic on a show report on this forum somewhere) I composted my plant of the lanky leaved /hidden flowered variety. Culture was the same but i think this plant varies tremendously in form. I'll grow it again only if I find a good one!

[Michael J Campbell]

Am I the only husband in the world who has to practically force his wife to spend money?

Yes.