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dave
Jacksonville, TX
(Zone 8a)
 June 22, 2009
05:50 AM Post #6721777
| There are a total of 402 votes:
| Yes, I can wait as long as it takes for something to bloom.
(179 votes, 44%) |  |
| I have some patience, but not an over abundance. (what can you wait for?)
(71 votes, 17%) | |
| It annoys me that I must wait for things to grow, but I grumble and endure it.
(41 votes, 10%) | |
| I have patience with some things, but not with others.
(90 votes, 22%) | |
| I want everything right now! (how do you manage?)
(21 votes, 5%) | |
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Previous Polls |
Kathleen
Panama, NY
(Zone 5a)
June 22, 2009
06:06 AM Post #6721806
| Along time ago, I prayed for patience (just before my mother told me never to pray for patience!) and we waited 22 years to buy our farm - a very long hard lesson in patience. Waiting on a plant doesn't seem very hard anymore. |
SongsofJoy
New Hampshire, NH
(Zone 5b)
June 22, 2009
07:58 AM Post #6721991
| I am hopelessly impatient when it comes to my garden (not as much with the rest of life). I will often spend the extra money to buy larger plants/trees and I plant them far too close together so it looks fuller. I have gotten a tiny bit better over the years, however. Maybe because I am getting tired of having to move everything in a year or two when things get too crowded! |
Potagere
(Jim) Farges
France
(Zone 7b)
June 22, 2009
08:53 AM Post #6722149
| I want everything right now!!!
I manage by creating more garden beds than I can possibly maintain, so there is always plenty of work to distract me. Especially because the only things that always show up "right now" are the weeds! |
cececoogan
Waukesha, WI
(Zone 5a)
June 22, 2009
09:43 AM Post #6722405
| You sound like me Jim. I have 18 garden beds on a ˝ acre lot and still have way too much lawn and not enough bloomers. Oh yeah they bloom all in their own sweet time but I want flowers yesterday not next month so I keep making more garden beds. some for may june flowering then june/ july july/aug aug/sept spt/oct then its blasted winter and then I really have to wait...and wait...and wait... |
Lily_love
Central, AL
(Zone 7b)
June 22, 2009
09:53 AM Post #6722449
| Often time, I hurry up and wait. lol. I've patience to wait for flowers, for example I planted a Japanese Pagoda tree knowing that it won't bloom until it's over 10 years of age. I'll wait. Just like I planted my wisteria in big pot, after 5 years of waiting, it rewarded us with the most beautiful blooms! Nothing good comes easy, and fast, nothing that's enduring and long lasting anyway. |
staceysmom
(GayLynn) Appleton, WI
(Zone 5a)
June 22, 2009
10:01 AM Post #6722481
| My patience runs low in late winter, early spring... waiting for the first signs that the garden is waking up. After that, I love watching every stage of my plants growth. It is also hard waiting for a plant to bloom that is new to my garden that hasn't bloomed before... can't wait to see what it looks like in full bloom. |
Tallulah_B
(Susan) Calgary, AB
(Zone 3b)
June 22, 2009
10:34 AM Post #6722625
| Looking & thinking back on it, I should have picked the 1st option (guess I was too impatient to get on here lol)
I've waited 5 years to get "just the right hat", watch my tiny perennials grow and appreciate all their transitions along the way until they bloom. I found a bud on my Datura, yesterday, and am quite excited! :-) I've waited all winter for it to grow, then waited until it was warm enough to plant outside :-)
Drives me nuts when others want Instant Gratification and dig up my garden to put in their larger perennials...(I'm still angry that the perennials I was given for the church garden weren't waited for and got dug up by someone who put in perennials from their home garden, then said the church garden was "Neglected" - it was NOT!!)
There, you got my vent for the day!! Sorry about that, but I was about to explode today...
-Susan- |
Tallulah_B
(Susan) Calgary, AB
(Zone 3b)
June 22, 2009
10:50 AM Post #6722700
| Once again - sorry for the vent - I hope I didn't insult anyone.
Someone stood up in church yesterday and talked about how the west garden was neglected and abandoned, then when I spoke to her about it afterwards said I was "not right" when I said I'd weeded and cut down dead branches from the tree in the area.
Guess I'm still burning about being called a liar...
She'd started with at the church in Oct/Nov 2008 so doesn't know what the garden in the area looked like last summer... "quel difference!" |
Yuska
San Antonio, TX
(Zone 8b)
June 22, 2009
11:10 AM Post #6722767
| There are so many variables that can affect a plant's progress, and I'm not really so much short on patience as I am long on worry. If something doesn't bloom or progress normally, I begin reviewing my planting procedures in my mind wondering if the problem is something I did or didn't do. Yuska |
Tir_Na_Nog
Houston
United States
(Zone 9b)
June 22, 2009
11:14 AM Post #6722788
| Kathleen, I'm with you!
I used to be so impatient I'd buy the biggest plants I could afford and would still be unsatisfied they hadn't filled in an area yet.
Now that I'm older *wink* I have no problems waiting for plants to reach maturity or to bloom.
I want land and a custom farmhouse to. And for the first time in my life I can patiently wait for that day that I've set a goal for now. I know things will happen eventually whether I frown or grumble about it so I'd rather not spend my days doing either.
I also learned to buy the smallest plant I can get, that way the hole to put it in is smaller, easier on the body to garden and then I can get more in in a year vs being burdened by huge pots and big holes to dig. Easier on the wallet is a nice side perk :) |
Potagere
(Jim) Farges
France
(Zone 7b)
June 22, 2009
11:25 AM Post #6722825
| For almost 30 years, we never spent more than 2-and-1/2 years anywhere, so I wanted my gardens to come on TODAY!
Now that we have been in a place long enought to have planted a persimmon tree and actually gotten fruit from it, do you think I have learned patience? NOT A BIT.
cece has more beds than I do, but I like the idea of May/April here, June there, etc.! I may give that a try! |
CajuninKy
Inez, KY
(Zone 6a)
June 22, 2009
12:23 PM Post #6723164
| I am impatient. That is why I plant lettuce and such. I don't eat much of it and give most aay but it gives me something to enjoy while I have to wait for the "good" stuff. |
gardenmart
Saugus, MA
(Zone 6b)
June 22, 2009
01:02 PM Post #6723325
| LOL I have a daylily that I got at kassia's roundup, the one where the real Dave showed up. Whoever brought it thought it might be 'Little Grapette' but she didn't know for sure. It has its first bud this summer and the mystery will now be solved! I could have been patiently waiting on a 'Stella D'oro'. but hey, that's part of the fun of gardening. My mystery daylily that I got at a plant sale last month is throwing a bud. It's a mystery because the husband of one of the plant sale ladies brought the daylilies to the sale in clumps and the husband of another of the plant sale ladies carved them up and potted them. the first husband didn't remember what his wife had said about the colors, so I paid a dollar and got a huge clump. hopefully it is something interesting.
I sold off my H. 'Joan Senior' because I was disappointed in the color. Not that it isn't pretty, but it wasn't the color I was going for.
Martha |
kwanjin
West Valley City, UT
(Zone 5a)
June 22, 2009
01:15 PM Post #6723397
| The older I get, the more patience I seem to have. I can, and have, waited years for things to happen. "Everything in it's time." I can't make it grow faster, so, why pout? |
LariAnn
Miami, FL
(Zone 10a)
June 22, 2009
01:17 PM Post #6723406
| Sometimes you get a reprieve when it comes to patience. I was prepared to wait years to get the chance to cross Alocasia odora and Alocasia robusta, but then happened upon a blooming specimen of A. robusta. My waiting was over! By contrast, I got an interesting Alocasia, one I'd never seen before, and ended up waiting a couple of years before, finally, this year one of them threw some blooms. I think patience and gardening are inextricably linked. |
Pamgarden
Central, VA
(Zone 7b)
June 22, 2009
01:47 PM Post #6723540
| I think a garden teaches one patience. Nature does things in its own time. Any time I've tried to hurry things along like with a little more fertilizer or planting things too close to make them look bigger and better, nature has managed to reminded me that I am not in charge. I'm a very slow learner. |
kwanjin
West Valley City, UT
(Zone 5a)
June 22, 2009
02:00 PM Post #6723603
| But, you do learn. |
Tir_Na_Nog
Houston
United States
(Zone 9b)
June 22, 2009
02:36 PM Post #6723768
| kwanjin, well said. |
magnolialover
Southern, WI
(Zone 5a)
June 22, 2009
02:39 PM Post #6723778
| lilium from seed has taught me patience in the garden. The waiting builds anticipation ;) |
plantladylin
East Central, FL
(Zone 9b)
June 22, 2009
03:10 PM Post #6723921
| I voted Yes, I can wait as long as it takes for something to bloom, and it looks like many feel the same way. It's always exciting watching and waiting for the surprises we find in the garden! I have learned patience from gardening.
... there's an old saying about "Southerner's" being sloooow. I guess our way of life is very slow to some folks but I like to think it's just a patient way of life.
To be truthful, I don't have a lot of patience when it comes to certain people and situations in life. But, when it comes to gardening I have all the patience in the world! I can while away hours just sitting on the bench under the tree, sipping iced tea, gazing around trying to decide where in the garden I want to plant something, where it will grow best, the best location for viewing etc. Sometimes I while away so much time sitting on the bench daydreaming that things don't get done that need doing, but it's taught me patience.
In this rushed, hurried world of uncertainty, it's sometimes hard to find patience. I think everyone needs a little peaceful spot to sit and reflect. For some, it might be a plot of land, or even a container or two to plant and tend ... a little respite from all the worries and fast pace of daily life.
Wishing you all many blessings, peace and patience in your gardens.
Lin |
Bookerc1
Mackinaw, IL
(Zone 5a)
June 22, 2009
03:29 PM Post #6724004
| I can have some patience, if I know there is an end in sight. Like when all the folks on the clematis forum taught me the mantra "First year they sleep, second year they creep, third year they leap." I can handle the lack of immediate gratification if I know that the reward WILL come.
It's the plants that just seem to sit and never do anything that frustrate me. I can start things from seed and know it will take a while for them to mature, and the bed to really look the way I want it to, as long as I see progress!
In the meantime, I shoehorn all kinds of things into the gaps, to help me wait. So. . .I guess that means I really am not patient after all.
|
Kelli
L.A. (Canoga Park), CA
(Zone 10a)
June 22, 2009
05:46 PM Post #6724698
| I'd say that I am pretty patient about waiting for the good things in life to come, but not at all patient about waiting for the bad things to leave. |
mamajack
Fate, TX
(Zone 8a)
June 22, 2009
06:39 PM Post #6724939
| look at us. gardeners are the most patient people in the world. and optimistic. ain't we? |
Artwestallis
Milwaukee, WI
June 22, 2009
07:28 PM Post #6725106
| must be patient because Ive waited 5 yrs and still no blooms on wiesteria.Which I told take almots that. But looseing patience with it one more year then out iit comes
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Yuska
San Antonio, TX
(Zone 8b)
June 22, 2009
07:53 PM Post #6725193
| Was your wisteria grown from seed or from a cutting? Six years may be only partway toward bloom...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisteria |
Artwestallis
Milwaukee, WI
June 22, 2009
08:57 PM Post #6725468
| dont know that I bought it online and never thought to ask will have to wait and see. It does go up about 10 foot from the ground . |
KaylyRed
Watertown, WI
(Zone 5a)
June 22, 2009
09:23 PM Post #6725589
| Hehe...this was the question I suggested, based on all the impatient gardeners in the Upper Midwest forums. ;)
I'm impatient, but I tend to grumble and endure it. Good things come to those who wait (unless a critter snips your budding plants right down to the ground, as recently happened to my astilbe *mutter*).
I'm far more patient in the summer than I am in the spring. I can wait patiently for that first echinacea to bloom, but I can hardly stand waiting for daffodils to show their sunny faces. Winter brings out the worst in my patience level. |
Bookerc1
Mackinaw, IL
(Zone 5a)
June 22, 2009
11:13 PM Post #6726023
| Artwestallis, I have a funny story about non-blooming wisteria. The first time I went to the local garden club, an older lady was telling stories on herself. She said she was so frustrated with her stupid wisteria that just would not bloom, that she grabbed her broom and started whacking at it, yelling at it, and telling it how mad she was. Lo and behold, it bloomed shortly afterward. She was pretty sheepish admitting that she battered her wisteria with a broom handle, but apparently it shocked it into action!
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KyWoods
Melbourne, KY
(Zone 6a)
June 22, 2009
11:32 PM Post #6726096
| ROFLMBO !!! I am in tears just picturing that, Bookerc1! So much for tlc, huh?
Patients, yep, I have a few, and they're coming along just fine so far... ;) |
Joan
Belfield, ND
(Zone 4a)
 June 22, 2009
11:44 PM Post #6726123
| I used to be patient. Living in North Dakota it takes patience for most things to mature due to the very short growing season. However, in the last couple years I'm finding my patience is growing shorter as I get older.
We built our house in 2002/2003 on a flat piece of the prairie. There used to be a home on this site long ago, so there were existing shelter belts...what's left of them anyway after dutch elm disease claimed a good portion of them.
Anyhoo, after we built the house we planted literally hundreds of trees around it to offer shade and protection from the winds. Now, 7 years later, over time we've replaced almost half of the original baby trees that couldn't handle the drought. Those that survived really haven't grown much either. At this rate I'm not going to live long enough to see mature trees in my yard.
I've decided that I'm done with patience and want to buy some BIG trees and hire a tree mover. |
joandud
White Lake, MI
June 22, 2009
11:52 PM Post #6726143
| I love the challenge of growing plants from small beginnings (seeds) or rescuing plants sold on the "Need TLC" shelf at the nursery. Every day I walk my garden and enjoy congratulating those plants that are making headway. It's a great challenge and a great satisfaction for me as a gardener when I see these "babies" flourish. Nature at her finest! |
grampapa
Wheatfield, NY
(Zone 6a)
June 23, 2009
07:40 AM Post #6726652
| Patience is something I have acquired with time. Like Joan above, I enjoy watching a plant grow from seed and am more than willing to wait a year or two for perennial I have nurtured to bloom. I am finding, though, that buying some larger shrubs & trees is sometimes a better way to go for survival, an also to have slower growing species amount to something in my lifetime. |
CherokeeGreg
Fresno, CA
(Zone 9a)
June 23, 2009
11:48 AM Post #6727463
| I beleve I finally have patients. I received some bulbs from my moms freind last summer and planted them I donot know what they are but this summer I was gifted with a great show and the humming birds love them.I posted a picture of them. I also got a hollyhock from a thrift store it did not bloom during the summer but it servived the whole winter and gave me a great show. I hope it reseeds itself and keeps giving me more shows to come. Patients pays off in the long run. 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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Tallulah_B
(Susan) Calgary, AB
(Zone 3b)
June 23, 2009
11:52 AM Post #6727486
| I have patience - good thing! My Daturas are self-seeding and I have lots of babies again!
The onesI planted last year, in a pot and brought inside, have bloomed throughout the winter, and now are planted outside. One has a bloom on it, and there are more babies growing!
Anyone want some babies?
-Susan- |
Bookerc1
Mackinaw, IL
(Zone 5a)
June 23, 2009
12:06 PM Post #6727539
| Wow, CherokeeGreg, I don' t know what it is, but I LOVE it! It just glows!
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KaylyRed
Watertown, WI
(Zone 5a)
June 23, 2009
01:46 PM Post #6727973
| One of the little sayings we have at our house, when somebody says, "Have patience," is to respond, "Patience?! How long is that gonna take?" ;) |
KyWoods
Melbourne, KY
(Zone 6a)
June 23, 2009
01:59 PM Post #6728011
| LOL I also like the cartoon of the vulture saying, "Patience my (rear end), I'm gonna KILL something!" |
flowerjen
central, NJ
(Zone 6b)
June 23, 2009
03:29 PM Post #6728338
| I have patience when waiting for plants grow, but very impatient to get new projects going while waiting for some $ to spend. |
kwanjin
West Valley City, UT
(Zone 5a)
June 23, 2009
03:59 PM Post #6728411
| From Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
Anya..."I was patient but it took too long." |
roybird
Santa Fe, NM
June 23, 2009
04:30 PM Post #6728481
| So funny, Kwanjin! I am patient with plants that I know might take awhile. For example, I know grape vines might take 3 or 4 years to really put out a lot of growth. I have one rose that has been very slow. But, if annuals look sickly I have no trouble pulling them out. |
pajonica
Tone-machi
Japan
(Zone 9a)
June 23, 2009
05:39 PM Post #6728716
| Patience is the very essence of my philosophy of gardening, the planning, planting, the anticipation creates excitement
and reward, or failure! |
mamajack
Fate, TX
(Zone 8a)
June 23, 2009
08:18 PM Post #6729320
| kwanjin, that was perfectly said wasn't it? lol |
Kaelkitty
Adelaide
Australia
(Zone 10a)
June 24, 2009
12:12 AM Post #6730441
| As a grower of many slow growing plants (I still have some cacti which have yet to bloom after 35 years in my possession) I would like to think I have developed SOME patience, but it doesn't stop me poking about in the soil above my spring bulbs every year to see if they are "doing anything yet" LOL! There is just something compelling about watching them come up through the soil each year. |
sharonf1
Lake in the Hills, IL
(Zone 5a)
June 24, 2009
09:30 AM Post #6731396
| Overall I'm patient in the garden but impatient overtones exist as well. Perhaps a better term for impatient would be anticipation - similar to kid waiting for Christmas morning. It's fun to go out every day and see what new offering the garden has to offer. |
MySharona
Amelia Island, FL
(Zone 9a)
June 24, 2009
12:49 PM Post #6732278
| Gardening is just about the only thing I can be patient about! |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
June 24, 2009
06:27 PM Post #6733759
| I am a horribly impatient person when it comes to everything but the garden environment. I enjoy watching plants develop at their own speed and I have a soft spot for teensy weensy seedlings bravely persevering through drought and h*a*i*l. I do wish that the plants were more patient though cuz just when I go 'AHA! how perfectly prettiful you are sure that plant will try a takeover or a runaway. |
cececoogan
Waukesha, WI
(Zone 5a)
June 24, 2009
08:12 PM Post #6734175
| I've a plaque in my house this Lord grant me patience and do it NOW! I tend to buy all smaller plants so that I have the right to say I've raised that from a little baby. That said;...I will go out every day and yell grow d----- and do it now. I tend to over plant planting too close together for a fuller look. Year 1 is iffy year 2 is gorgeous and year 3 is a night mare. Then I need a new bed that I will once again over plant and the cycle goes on. |
ericabelle
West Plains, MO
(Zone 6b)
June 24, 2009
08:54 PM Post #6734328
| I have some patience, but not an overabundence. I try to always have something blooming in the garden AND some plants ABOUT to bloom in the garden. That really helps extend my patience - if there is always something changing and developing. |
dorothian
Bad Axe, Mich / Flor, FL
(Zone 5a)
June 24, 2009
10:07 PM Post #6734717
| The secret is to plant other plants that will bloom while you are waiting. I waited for a tree form Chinese wisteria to bloom at least 10 years. It's finally blooming, but it's sibling is not, yet. I will wait a few more years and if it doesn't perform I MIGHT cut it down. The trunk on this tree is already 6 inches compared to the one that does bloom which is 4". |
KyWoods
Melbourne, KY
(Zone 6a)
June 24, 2009
10:14 PM Post #6734736
| Did you try whacking it with a broom while verbally abusing it, dorothian, like the lady bookerc1 mentioned above?
"The first time I went to the local garden club, an older lady was telling stories on herself. She said she was so frustrated with her stupid wisteria that just would not bloom, that she grabbed her broom and started whacking at it, yelling at it, and telling it how mad she was. Lo and behold, it bloomed shortly afterward."
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gessiegail
Taft, TX
(Zone 9a)
June 24, 2009
10:23 PM Post #6734785
| I am not patient about one thing in my life except waiting for plants to bloom...the journey of nurturing and growing it is more fun than the first bloom anyway... |
Yuska
San Antonio, TX
(Zone 8b)
June 24, 2009
10:28 PM Post #6734822
| In the reference article I posted earlier, it was stated that Chinese wisteria can take 20 years to bloom. And...
"Maturation can be forced by physically abusing the main trunk, root pruning, or drought stress."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisteria
This message was edited Jun 24, 2009 9:31 PM |
Camillia84
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 9a)
June 24, 2009
11:34 PM Post #6735131
| The only thing the Good Lord gave me patience for are my gardens!
Sometimes, I don't think he gave me enough!!!
I'm not real patient person to begin with----but find I'm a little more so with my plants. They do things in their own time!
As a for instance----Have two different ones that are night bloomers---getting ready to bloom any day? now. Not a night person (anymore) but have sat up with these plants in the last few years from 10pm to 12pm, just to see them bloom. Have some pretty fantastic pics of them that had I given up & went to bed, would not have been able to get.
Have one new that I just got last summer that I've not yet seen bloom---guess it will be worth the wait to see it!
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Bookerc1
Mackinaw, IL
(Zone 5a)
June 25, 2009
12:08 AM Post #6735246
| Wow, Yuska, I'll have to share that link with the wisteria-abuser! Maybe her guilty feelings will abate, once she realizes it is a legitimate gardening practice. LOL
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KyWoods
Melbourne, KY
(Zone 6a)
June 25, 2009
12:20 AM Post #6735283
| LOL, amazing! Just tell her not to get that impatient with her impatiens... O.O |
Bookerc1
Mackinaw, IL
(Zone 5a)
June 25, 2009
12:25 AM Post #6735308
| KyWoods, here is a cartoon for ya! I have this posted on my 'fridge!
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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pajaritomt
Los Alamos, NM
(Zone 5a)
June 25, 2009
12:30 AM Post #6735335
| I can wait two years for iris to bloom and two to five for fruit trees to bloom, but don't ask me to wait for Firefox to come up when I first log on in the morning. It seems to take forever. Maybe that is due to lack of coffee. |
KyWoods
Melbourne, KY
(Zone 6a)
June 25, 2009
12:36 AM Post #6735358
| LOL, that's cute, Bookerc1! |
pajaritomt
Los Alamos, NM
(Zone 5a)
June 25, 2009
01:01 AM Post #6735440
| I agree. Adorable, brookerc1! That is an adorable cartoon. |
pajonica
Tone-machi
Japan
(Zone 9a)
June 25, 2009
04:20 AM Post #6735606
| Bookerc1! Love the cartoon, I never thought about plants being impatiens, explains a lot. |
CapeCodGardener
Mid-Cape, MA
(Zone 7a)
June 25, 2009
08:59 AM Post #6736173
| After reading all the postings, it seems to me that we're ALL a bundle of differing blends of patience and impatience, depending on the circumstances! I know I am; patient with my slow-growing hostas in their woodland border, but eager and yearning and poking at the ground for those first bulbs of the NE Spring to finally show their faces!
Right now, I'm impatient to get out in the garden because it's finally stopped raining!!
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paulaj0
Imperial, PA
June 25, 2009
12:28 PM Post #6737106
| Having reached the age of almost 61, I realize that buying twigs is no longer going to reward me with the plants I want to have filling my garden. I may not have 30 years to see them mature. I also have many overgrown shrubs and trees that need either severe pruning or replacement. Unfortunately, who can afford to replace even medium versions of these plants? So here goes the pruning! If they don't make it, I know there are other plants that will just follow me home! Ca sera, sera (sp!). |
DesertPirate
Fallbrook, CA
(Zone 10b)
June 25, 2009
11:13 PM Post #6739882
| It's easy to be patient in 10-B. |
Bookerc1
Mackinaw, IL
(Zone 5a)
June 26, 2009
12:52 AM Post #6740132
| Pirate, I don't want to hear it!
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pajonica
Tone-machi
Japan
(Zone 9a)
June 26, 2009
12:59 AM Post #6740147
| I have the most beautiful magnolia tree in my garden planted by the late owner of my house, sometimes. at what ever
age we are, we are planting for the future and not the now. My dear Mother a lifelong gardener has a magnificent oak in her garden probably 200 years old. For these reasons I don't restrict myself from planting anything I feel future generations may enjoy.
pajonica
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lourspolaire
Delray Beach, FL
(Zone 10a)
June 26, 2009
07:59 AM Post #6740636
| Hello.
Basically, I am not a patient gardener. Anything that won't grow is ripped up and replaced by something else. I buy plants full-grown because I have no time for cuttings and even less patience with seeds. Life is short. Gotta go.
Sylvain. |
DesertPirate
Fallbrook, CA
(Zone 10b)
June 26, 2009
11:06 AM Post #6741276
| Take a sniff Sylvain, those roses are awfully sweet. |
WNYwillieB
Buffalo, NY
(Zone 6a)
June 26, 2009
05:59 PM Post #6742719
| I collect baby century plants ...
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henryr10
Cincinnati, OH
(Zone 6b)
June 26, 2009
09:20 PM Post #6743559
| Paula my Father and Joycet's are both 90... you got time.
Are we there yet? Huh? Close?
That's the attitude of most of the 'Gardeners' around here.
Large wallets, Large Plants, Largely Neglected...
not the plants the yards...never see anyone enjoying/using them.
You'd think we were in 10-B... ;-).
We don't do many seeds but do work a lot w/ little plants and cuttings.
A 3+ year wait for a Clematis is fine.
And have we have TONS of patience.
The Big Plants ALWAYS go on 1/2 price or better by July 1st...
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A mother and her 2 year old little girl enter a grocery store with a long list of groceries to buy.
The two year old little girl starts screaming.
The woman quietly whispers, “Stay calm, Charolette, stay calm.”
The little girl begins to scream louder, now throwing herself into a terrible tantrum.
The woman quietly whispers, “We are almost through in here, Charolette, calm down.”
Another woman on the same aisle hears everything going on and says to the woman, “I admire your patience with your little one, how do you do it?”
The woman replies, “PATIENCE!? *I’M* CHAROLETTE!!”
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DesertPirate
Fallbrook, CA
(Zone 10b)
June 26, 2009
11:05 PM Post #6743962
| Richard; You should post that one on the Jokes and Humor forum. |
notmartha
Bay City, MI
(Zone 6a)
June 26, 2009
11:57 PM Post #6744155
| im a Taurus!!! tells you everything about me!! |
joeswife
(Debra) Derby, KS
June 27, 2009
12:16 AM Post #6744233
| I will wait for years if I have to, and when something I planted comes back with a bloom, I celebrate my patience. I do whine alot while waiting.. |
themoonhowl
Prairieville, LA
(Zone 9a)
June 27, 2009
12:15 PM Post #6745515
| I am not the most patient of folk, but have learned over the years that plants don't care if you are or not. They will perform on their own schedule and I can like it or not. That being said, I am the reason Mother Nature gave us annuals. One season start to finish and they help keep my mind off the things that take years to mature. I also search out plants that tout they "bloom the first year".
Gardening has taught me a lot of Life's lessons, but I still love the "big, quick bang for my buck" plants that give nearly instant gratification in the landscape. My husband says it is the Gemini in me...one twin waits while the other rushes headlong...GRIN |
zonkel
Florence, MS
(Zone 7b)
June 27, 2009
01:33 PM Post #6745779
| Oh, I'm a Gemini, so that;s why I marked patient in some things and not in others...
Mostly impatient wins out ;-) |
Yuska
San Antonio, TX
(Zone 8b)
June 27, 2009
02:28 PM Post #6745912
| I remind myself that from the plant's standpoint, blooming starts the serious business of procreation. The lovely colors and alluring fragrances I so admire are really there to attract the pollinators - the ultimate goal is to produce the seeds for the next generation, and to do it in such a way that something or someone will distribute those seeds. I'm only a helper in getting the plant positioned and supplied with nutrients and water and protection from its enenies, if possible. The timing is beyond my control or influence. I remind myself - frequently. |
themoonhowl
Prairieville, LA
(Zone 9a)
June 27, 2009
04:28 PM Post #6746327
| I have heard it said that patience is a virtue. Given that I am not overly patient and never really ever was,my Great-Aunt India would always respond to "When?" with "Time moves at its' own will and there is no reason to suspect you can change that, so, go out in the garden and see what the butterflies are doing then come back and let me know how they are."
That didn't really help with patience, but I did learn to love gardens and butterflies and dragonflies and a host of other magical wonderful plants and creatures that I feel obliged to watch out for...and I want to do it right now! |
Maria
Rehoboth, MA
(Zone 5a)
June 28, 2009
09:15 AM Post #6748799
| With gardening and cooking I am very patient but not with anything else |
myezek
Carson City, NV
(Zone 6a)
June 28, 2009
08:21 PM Post #6751279
| I'm patient because I'm CHEAP! Make that thrifty. I can't make myself buy bigger plants when I can get a 6 pack of the same thing for the same (or close to it ) price. Plus it has the advantage of requiring smaller holes and being able to plant closer together. I want lots of things densely planted and it's a lot easier if the plants are small. And then I go in and broadcast seed. Of course I forget what I planted so when it blooms the next year I tickled pink (or purple or blue or what ever color it blooms). |
trackinsand
mid central, FL
(Zone 9a)
June 28, 2009
08:33 PM Post #6751323
| i am horribly impatient about almost everything, (in and out of the garden) but then again, gardening has taught me patience to a degree i never had before gardening and i'm thankful for every little bit i can get.
have waited 3 years for a first bloom on this Alpinia but the leaves are pretty all year so that was the trade-off!
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