YOU MIGHT BE A PLANT HOARDER IF … You refuse to pull out volunteer coneflowers because, even though they have spread throughout your entire garden, they are soooo pretty. You have collections of plants sitting on your patio, waiting to be planted for over two months because you fell in love at the garden center but you also have zero room left in your garden. You take every free plant that your gardening friends offer up … even the bishop’s weed and the green and white hostas. You plant 100 tomatoes each year because you can’t bear to thin the babies when you start them inside. You audibly gasp when someone tells you they dug out a plant and threw it in the compost bin. (In contrast, my husband gasped when I told him that I threw out the three plain green hostas that had been sitting on top of the soil in my new shade garden for months. I felt so proud of myself … now I have room for a dwarf oakleaf hydrangea instead of three boring green hostas! Winning!)
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