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dave
Jacksonville, TX
(Zone 8a)
 April 27, 2009
05:44 AM Post #6469052
| There are a total of 522 votes:
| Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a gardener.
(324 votes, 62%) |  |
| Close friends and family know that I garden.
(87 votes, 16%) | |
| The mailman, UPS driver and the Fed-X person all know that I garden!
(77 votes, 14%) | |
| Most folks do not think of me as a gardener. (why?)
(23 votes, 4%) | |
| Other. (tell us!)
(11 votes, 2%) | |
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Previous Polls |
postmandug
Bardstown, KY
(Zone 6a)
April 27, 2009
06:29 AM Post #6469128
| Most people do not know what an avid gardener I am. I've been gardening/landscaping for years but have really gone nuts over it just in the past two years.
Doug |
momcat
northeast, IL
(Zone 5a)
April 27, 2009
07:19 AM Post #6469226
| While I have a garden, I enjoy my garden, and spend way more money than I should on plants, even I don't consider myself a gardener, so I doubt anyone else would. There are many other things I would consider myself first.
Deb |
Wulfsden
Riverdale, NJ
(Zone 6a)
April 27, 2009
07:26 AM Post #6469244
| Going with the "spirit" of the question, I answered as 1. However, I was tempted to answer as other. I have written several popular gardening articles for various websites (like http://www.epinions.com/review/Jiffy_Starter_Pellets/content...), so lots of people I don't know also know I am a gardener. C'est la vie. |
randbponder
Hornick, IA
(Zone 4b)
April 27, 2009
08:22 AM Post #6469390
| I share a lot of my garden produce with friends, I think some are every bit as eager for the tomatoes and cucumbers and sweet potatoes to be ready as I am.
I just went for close friends and family.
Russ |
podster
Deep East Texas, TX
(Zone 8a)
April 27, 2009
08:39 AM Post #6469440
| People might 'think' I garden but I don't 'think' of myself as a gardener. Lots of those people KNOW I like green stuff though... |
plantladyhou
Katy, TX
(Zone 8b)
April 27, 2009
09:28 AM Post #6469598
| We seem to have a limited number of family and friends so naturally they know that I love to garden especially when I go to someone's house and the first thing I do is stoop down and pull a weed. Wish I could break that habit.
Ann |
drivenbonkers
Perth,, ON
(Zone 5a)
April 27, 2009
09:37 AM Post #6469659
| I voted for close friends and family know I'm a gardener.
My neice has gardened with me for about 6 years, (she's 16 now) and together we've sparked her interest in gardening and growing things. She's learned alot, and now she actually enjoys weeding her own gardens.
Everyone at work knows I garden, because I bring in flower filled vases all spring/summer/fall for our desks.
today's vases contain the very first daffodils of the season! |
phuggins
Fairmont, WV
(Zone 6a)
April 27, 2009
09:43 AM Post #6469682
| I voted for the UPS man, the FedEx man, and the mailman--who are either stopping by with plants or seeds for me, or say Hi when they see me working in the garden. Otherwise, my family and friends know...my students know...my neighbors know...and probably most of my colleagues know. In fact, I'm not sure who DOESN'T know I garden.
I'm not sure I'd actually call myself a gardener, though...too many dead plants trailing in my wake. :)
pam |
DMurray407
Buffalo, MN
(Zone 4a)
April 27, 2009
10:42 AM Post #6469933
| Most everyone who knows me knows that I'm rather fanatical about gardening-I do need to include (and thanks!) my mail man (I swear I've heard a few swear words as he drops multiple packages off), the UPS and Fed-ex folks as well. |
Marcy_1
New Madison, OH
(Zone 5a)
April 27, 2009
10:44 AM Post #6469940
| I think EVERYONE knows I am a gardener! I know my family and friends all know, because it's the first thing they ask me every spring...have you been in your gardens yet??
My hubby works in our small grocery in town part time...and since it is a very small town, people always ask him about our gardens...and what I'm doing this year, etc.
So yeah...they all know we garden!!! |
hopflower
Santa Rosa, CA
(Zone 9a)
April 27, 2009
10:50 AM Post #6469987
| Everyone. Simply everyone. |
flowrgirl1
Winston-Salem, NC
(Zone 7a)
April 27, 2009
10:57 AM Post #6470033
| My family, friends, blog followers, post office workers, UPS, high school principal, some teachers, moms friends etc... Just about everybody! |
mrs_colla
Marin, CA
(Zone 9b)
April 27, 2009
11:11 AM Post #6470090
| Anyone knows I am a gradener; my front yrad is where I garden.
But the UPS and FedEx people know every plant by name, they brought them all to me!! |
knpeterson
Waynesville, MO
April 27, 2009
11:29 AM Post #6470177
| Most people do not think I would be a gardener. I grew up planting veggie gardens with my parents and when I moved out at 19 I started planting my own. (Thats what sealed the deal with my now husband...he was impressed!) Most people my age were not associated with that hobby. I am now 27 and I'm growing for my first farmers market. People are still suprised. People are not suprised that we are cattle farmers but when they find out about our garden they are. I don't get it. |
holeth
Lehigh Valley, PA
(Zone 6a)
April 27, 2009
11:37 AM Post #6470221
| They all know...but they don't all understand. The neighbors really think I'm certifiable. City folk. :-( |
addicted2plants
Saint Louis, MO
(Zone 6a)
April 27, 2009
11:46 AM Post #6470255
| They all know I really am addicted. My neighbors actually sued me over it! They hate it that I'm always out there changing things and that landscaping stuff is always being delivered (compost, mulch etc.) They found out that Judges do NOT like their time wasted and that a picture really is worth 1000 words. I found out that "cultured people" don't grow veggies where they might be seen, even if mixed in so well with other landscaping that you don't notice them. Hubby found out winning was worth the 10 grand it cost...It's cheaper than the psychiatrist and meds I'd need if I couldn't garden LOL |
ldy_gardenermd
Highland, MD
(Zone 6b)
April 27, 2009
11:52 AM Post #6470287
| If you come to my house you know for sure, close friends and family know too. Others though, not so much, I mean it isn't like I go out with a sign on my car that says I'm a gardener lol!
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cececoogan
Waukesha, WI
(Zone 5a)
April 27, 2009
12:01 PM Post #6470323
| Anyone who knows me including the mailman, Ups drivers and Fedex drivers. They get to lug the many orders to the garage and say she's at it again. |
Tallulah_B
(Susan) Calgary, AB
(Zone 3b)
April 27, 2009
01:02 PM Post #6470564
| Everyone knows, simply because I'm fanatical about showing anyone my successes, and colour scheme, plus the new types of flowers that they don't know about and have never seen.
People @ the church know because I tend their gardens, lawn, and indoor plants LOL
("She's at it again - it must be spring!!" is what they say)
I miss the longer springs/summers of Winnipeg, but I value the diversity of Calgary. When a beautiful plant that no one else knows grows in Calgary, it's really quite
self-affirming!
I love my flowering trees & bushes that I didn't have in Winnipeg - my lilac there was a tiny bush of 2 yrs old, and I'd never seen a Waterton Mock Orange until I moved to Calgary (now I have 2 - one 3 yr old and one about 7 yrs old - both bloom).
Gotta love Calgary! |
Kathleen
Panama, NY
(Zone 5a)
April 27, 2009
01:19 PM Post #6470623
| If anyone who knows me doesn't know I'm a gardener, they aren't paying attention. |
scutler
Charleston, SC
(Zone 8b)
April 27, 2009
02:32 PM Post #6470875
| ROTF, I'm pretty sure the UPS guy is on to me and this gardening thing by now. |
tropicsofohio
Hilliard, OH
(Zone 6b)
April 27, 2009
03:22 PM Post #6471071
| any body who sees me off a street would never in a million years think that i am a gardener. i guess its too hard seeing a teenage "emo" kid in the dirt. lol, but i love it. im just wierd, but seriously, im in love with it. i even work at the local nursery. im always giving people advice. when my teacher found out i garden, she even asked me why her tomato plant was not growing fruit. lol i have proven that gardening isnt just for girls and retired senior citizens. lol |
laurawege
Wayland, MA
(Zone 6a)
April 27, 2009
03:31 PM Post #6471112
| I think it is my hands/fingernails that give me away ! I have a little wrought Iron chair that I put in my front garden near the street with a big bowl or vase filled with what ever I have a lot of with a sign that says "free to a good home" I have never had any thing left by the end of the day.
laura |
AlohaHoya
Keaau, HI
(Zone 11)
April 27, 2009
03:55 PM Post #6471236
| Most folks around here are growers or work with plants... We also are known by 'nicknames' like "Big Shawn", 'Anthurium Annie', so I am 'Hoya Carol'... Growing is much celebrated here with plant sales, lei, etc... PLUS my fingernails (what fingernails?) |
Kelli
L.A. (Canoga Park), CA
(Zone 10a)
April 27, 2009
04:38 PM Post #6471368
| I know the mailman knows that I garden. I'm sure the UPS guy has figured it out, too. The people I worked with knew because I was always giving way surplus aloes and irises and cherry tomatoes and stuff. |
revclaus
Denver, CO
(Zone 5b)
April 27, 2009
06:39 PM Post #6471917
| Everybody I know knows I garden, and so do the FedEx man, the UPS man, and the mailman. I think I'm the only one in my building who gardens. All my clients know I garden too. (I'm a realtor.) Yesterday one of them said, "I go out in the back yard to look at whether it's a good yard for my daughter. You go in the back yard just to see all the plants!" Yes! |
SongsofJoy
New Hampshire, NH
(Zone 5b)
April 27, 2009
08:12 PM Post #6472337
| Everyone who knows me, and a lot of people who don't know me too! |
Planter56
Buffalo, NY
April 27, 2009
08:51 PM Post #6472501
| Hmmm it could be the slight green tinge my nails get, but I think everyone knows that I am a gardener. Or, it could be because I talk to the plants...:) I think those men in the white coats are just waitin around the corner to net me :) hehehehhe
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roybird
Santa Fe, NM
April 27, 2009
09:28 PM Post #6472664
| I put the mailman, etc. because they always see me working on the front garden. Lots of people who don't know me at all stop and look at my front yard. Today I met a nice older couple from Texas. The back is private, tho. |
greenbrain
Madison, IL
(Zone 6a)
April 27, 2009
09:57 PM Post #6472812
| On the way home on the commuter train this evening, I started up a conversation with a complete stranger. She was looking thru a nursery catalog that I've not only ordered from during the past few years, but I've visited the nursery while out of town. Before I got off at my stop, I had already highly recommended the nursery, advised her on the best plants for her boggy area, and explained the catalog's rating system for plants. She seemed pleased to receive the free advice that I was more than happy to share. I'm not a secret gardener. |
pepper23
KC Metro area, MO
(Zone 5b)
April 27, 2009
10:16 PM Post #6472907
| Pretty much everyone who knows me and doesn't know me. I worked at a garden for 2 and a half years and I used to bug the gardeners there then pass the advice on to visitors and friends. Now I work at a grocery store and I take care of the greenhouse. So people who don't know me now know that I garden cause I am always giving out advice about certain plants. I now have regular customers who just can't stay away. LOL.
My whole family is also into gardening so I also inherited my gardening gene. I did not inherit a weeding gene though cause only once or twice a year will you see all the beds completely weeded. They are usually half full of weeds. LOL |
torriesmom
New York, NY
(Zone 6b)
April 27, 2009
11:42 PM Post #6473232
| I am a wanna be gardener. I have always enjoyed growing plants etc. since I was a child. My passion started out with flower boxes filled with seeds that grew to tiny edible and tender vegetables. I even ordered strawberry plants from a catalog in the 60's. I will have been on my job this year, 35 years. Co-workers who have finally retired, always ask if I am still planting things and what do I have on my desk?. People come to me that I do not know with a withered dried out unknown plant in a pot. (I have also been the victim of theft of my plants at work, only the pretty and green ones disappear). LOL.
I have a high shelf in my apartment that I have put a protective barrier around so that the plants are secure and my cat Torrie can not use them as her personal kitty greens. I have received some nice cuttings from the DG members and have in the last 3 months ordered more than 30 orchid cactus plants or cuttings (nothing blooming yet) along with a few airplants and plant & flower books. You should see the bags of soil, pots and gardening tools. Does that make me a gardener?. In my heart I am.
Ivy who dreams of plants. |
Kylaluaz
Weed, CA
(Zone 7b)
April 28, 2009
12:29 AM Post #6473296
| Yes you are a gardener, Ivy, yes you are. I started gardening in an apartment that had no place outside with dirt at all, I had one lonely little plant on a shelf my cat knocked it off and I decided to move, found a place with a yard, and there I went.
I laughed at the answer about the UPS and Fed Ex and all, yup. But everyone else too. My cousin recently connected with someone I knew about 15 or so years ago, and when he found out she is my cousin his way of asking about me was "Kyla the gardener? I have wondered how she is!"
And then there was the time I moved cross country and needed a reference for a place I went to rent and the landlady at my previous place spoke highly enough of me that I got my rental, and it turned out the main thing she praised was the garden I created where I lived...
so I guess pretty much everyone knows.
;-) |
Jungleman
Pasadena, CA
(Zone 9b)
April 28, 2009
01:07 AM Post #6473383
| You can tell by my soiled knees. I come into work with my farmer tan and everyone knows I spent the weekend in the garden! |
KatG
Port Charlotte, FL
(Zone 10a)
April 28, 2009
02:16 AM Post #6473479
| My friends know I'm a gardener, but it's kind of funny to watch people's faces (mostly customers and business aquaintances) when they enter what I consider to be my "paradise"...They're like who on earth planted all this and looks after it? haha. 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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KaylyRed
Watertown, WI
(Zone 5a)
April 28, 2009
08:30 AM Post #6473962
| I work from home (telecommute). One of my co-workers, who also happens to be a good friend, often tells my other co-workers that if they can't find me during the warmer months it's likely because I'm "outside communing with green things."
Yep, everyone knows I'm a gardener, from my closest friends and family to the folks I know on Facebook. ;) |
woofie
Chewelah, WA
(Zone 5a)
April 28, 2009
10:26 AM Post #6474450
| KatG, you can't possibly be a "real" gardener...that's WAY too clean and tidy! :-) Where are all the tipped out bags of potting soil and stacks of dirty pots waiting to be washed and replanted, and little shriveled up plants that didn't quite make it? Oops, I think I'm giving myself away!
Lovely pic and CUTE pups! |
nymegen
Auburn, NH
April 28, 2009
11:56 AM Post #6474847
| Doesn't being on Dave's tell it all?Actually ever since I joined Dave's I think "my problem " has become worse,so many choices ,subjects to choose from.Endless gardening!!! |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
April 28, 2009
03:36 PM Post #6475912
| No one knows that I am a gardener because I'm not one. I stole Dahlianut's identity. I am really Marlene Dietrich and I don't garden. I have kickbutt cheek bones though. |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
April 28, 2009
03:46 PM Post #6475956
| Seriously The Entire Universe knows I'm a gardener. Big surprise.  |
Sheila_FW
Fort Worth, TX
(Zone 8a)
April 28, 2009
04:01 PM Post #6476041
| This is going to be a landslide vote!!
Anyone who knows me has been gifted with plants!!! |
Kylaluaz
Weed, CA
(Zone 7b)
April 28, 2009
05:37 PM Post #6476466
| *jaw drops* I did not know Marlene Dietrich was a gardener, too!!!!!!! |
rjuddharrison
Houston, TX
(Zone 9a)
April 28, 2009
07:32 PM Post #6476925
| aaahhh...one of my friends posted a blog calling me the Green Man, and that I bleed green.. Co-workers began asking me plant questions. What gave it away? The fact that my PC is constantly showing exotic plants and is always on DG?
I guess I'm out ..and proud |
WaterCan2
Suffolk County, NY
(Zone 7a)
April 28, 2009
11:21 PM Post #6478062
| My neighbors think I'm a gardener, my friends know I enjoy nature. I don't think of myself as a gardener, I just enjoy working with nature, in whatever capacity I can. |
justforyou
Oshawa
Canada
April 29, 2009
02:25 PM Post #6480269
| Friends,family and neighbours know I garden and love it! Any time in Spring, I get the urge to go to the local nursery to pick out that perfect plant to put in that carefully selected, special bare spot of our garden. I would buy every plant in the place, but I have a loving wife who reigns me in when I get a little too enthusiastic. It for me, is not a hobby or pasttime, but a lifestyle that I have come to truly love. I really enjoy Springs' renewal and the sight of the first buds appearing in our gardens |
gardener105
Bend, OR
(Zone 5a)
April 29, 2009
03:09 PM Post #6480550
| I've been gardening ever since I got married. I got my first Rose from my mom as a gift from her garden, and I still have it. I've been married for 35 yrs in JUne.
Susan105 |
Tir_Na_Nog
Houston
United States
(Zone 9b)
April 29, 2009
04:38 PM Post #6480917
| I noticed if you even mention a few plants by their real names people assume you know a lot about plants! Since I don't consider myself knowledgeable in the garden just yet I keep my "knowledge" limited to friends and family. |
Planter56
Buffalo, NY
April 29, 2009
09:43 PM Post #6482240
| Can I have an autograph Ms. Dietrich!!!! |
grampapa
Wheatfield, NY
(Zone 6a)
April 29, 2009
11:05 PM Post #6482563
| I picked the mailman, FedEx, etc. just because I buy most of my plants mail order. I got a rose in the mail yesterday. In truth, anybody who knows me more than superficially knows that I am a gardener. When I retired I took collages of my garden to my retirement party to show everybody what I was going to be doing after. My boss (who I worked with for 9 years) was surprised...shows you how much attention she paid to me. |
Twincol
Fresno, CA
(Zone 9b)
April 29, 2009
11:38 PM Post #6482677
| What Postmandug said, yep, that's me, also:
| Quoted: | | Most people do not know what an avid gardener I am. I've been gardening/landscaping for years but have really gone nuts over it just in the past two years. |
[chuckling]
Linda
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mamajack
Fate, TX
(Zone 8a)
April 30, 2009
12:15 AM Post #6482767
| even people that don't know me know that i am a gardener. this year with all the blooms people are dropping by to say that they have been watching me all these years out there rain or shine digging, digging, digging. |
Dave47
Southern, CT
(Zone 6a)
April 30, 2009
07:44 AM Post #6483210
| This could have used an "All of the above" choice. |
irisMA
South Hamilton, MA
April 30, 2009
09:33 AM Post #6483502
| We are known in town for our irises--There are little ones?? Right now the daffodils are blooming in front of our roadside stone wall & we get off season comments on how much people like them. Sorry about the nasty & expensive neighbors 'addicted,' hope it cost them as much. |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
April 30, 2009
10:49 AM Post #6483803
| Cetainly Planter 56 |
starting2luvz4
Monticello, IA
April 30, 2009
02:29 PM Post #6484630
| I'm sure there is a lists somewhere but it would be fun to do our own DG list.
we can copy this list and add your own to keep it going :).
You know you are a Gardener when:
(1) You can quote the exact composition and Ph of your compost
(2) Your adult daughter calls you to ask how the babies(newly sprouted seeds) are.
(3) People recognize your tush better than your face (lol)
(4) You'll drive over 100 miles to collect the trees because you don't trust UPS.
This message was edited Apr 30, 2009 1:30 PM |
jcoakley
Chicago, IL
(Zone 5b)
April 30, 2009
04:20 PM Post #6485190
| This made me laugh . . . I voted for my mailperson because while I don't buy a ton of plants via mailorder, my mail lady has been monitoring my gardening efforts over the last few years. Since I'm often out working when she comes to deliver the mail, she checks up on me and gives her opinions and advice. Last week she told me she was proud of me and all the progress I've made! Cracks me up. |
Sparrowgirl
Stormville, NY
(Zone 6a)
April 30, 2009
09:29 PM Post #6486469
| I'm more of an indoor plant person than an outdoor one - but with several plants always flourishing happily on my desk at work and windows full of plants at home, I think everyone knows. |
Sheila_FW
Fort Worth, TX
(Zone 8a)
April 30, 2009
11:44 PM Post #6487134
| With hands like mine and broken fingernails I am sure they are suspect! I try to use gloves but before I know it my hands are dirty. |
DaleTheGardener
Tampa, FL
(Zone 10a)
May 01, 2009
06:32 AM Post #6487647
| My name says it all... 
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woofie
Chewelah, WA
(Zone 5a)
May 01, 2009
10:26 AM Post #6488402
| Good grief! Is that a coleus? Nah, gotta be a bunch,right? Very nice! |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
May 01, 2009
10:58 AM Post #6488556
| WOWSER a coleus tree! |
TexasTam
Plano, TX
(Zone 8a)
May 01, 2009
11:56 AM Post #6488811
| My friends are learning the hard way that I'm a gardening nut. One friend just started a vegetable patch this year and asked me via email how much she should be watering. I returned with a five paragraph answer that covered drip irrigation, mulching, the importance of watering deeply but infrequently, etc.
I don't think she'll be asking for any more advice...lol!
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DaleTheGardener
Tampa, FL
(Zone 10a)
May 01, 2009
03:58 PM Post #6489830
| Coleus can get big> 
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dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
May 01, 2009
05:12 PM Post #6490211
| No kiddin. Does it die back in the winter in FL or keep going? |
DaleTheGardener
Tampa, FL
(Zone 10a)
May 01, 2009
09:11 PM Post #6491074
| They are evergreen shrubs in the greenhouse. 
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dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
May 01, 2009
10:43 PM Post #6491530
| A coleus forest. Cool. |
woofie
Chewelah, WA
(Zone 5a)
May 02, 2009
11:33 AM Post #6493048
| Wow, I have never seen coleus that size! I had a friend in California who had some impressive houseplants, but nothing like these! Nice! |
Seedtosser1
Glenview, IL
May 02, 2009
12:19 PM Post #6493250
| OH wow! Dale, your Colius is outragous!! Loving them all.
Everyone and anyone knows, I am not a gardener, I'm the weather girl!
LOL, I am always asked because I talk so much of the gardens people know
I can smell the rain!
And also, not everyone goes around hugging trees and talking to plants...gasp, in pulic even.
Love the list, you should create a thread
This is a fun to read.
enjoy the sun kiss today |
DaleTheGardener
Tampa, FL
(Zone 10a)
May 02, 2009
02:33 PM Post #6493721
| Yep, coleus get big down here>
Thumblina>
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mamajack
Fate, TX
(Zone 8a)
May 02, 2009
06:28 PM Post #6494532
| lol... seedtosser i not only talk to the plants but i also talk to the mockingbirds and thank them for eating the bugs and the bees and i pet the bees. |
melody
Benton, KY
(Zone 7a)
May 03, 2009
03:06 PM Post #6497907
| I have serious coleus envy... |
DaleTheGardener
Tampa, FL
(Zone 10a)
May 03, 2009
03:27 PM Post #6497988
| Coleus are one of the best tropicals on the planet, there are at least a thousand different kinds, here are three> 
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bonniekelley
Rehoboth, MA
May 03, 2009
09:01 PM Post #6499460
| I am, therefore I am a gardener! |
DesertPirate
Vista, CA
(Zone 10b)
May 04, 2009
04:00 AM Post #6500818
| I'm one of the fortunate few who gets to earn a living doing it. So yeah, most people know. Definitely all my co-workers and neighbors. |
redchic01
southern willamette , OR
(Zone 7a)
May 04, 2009
04:11 AM Post #6500823
| Pretty much just a couple of family members and a few co-workers at one job (of three) know that I garden. The rest of my family and co-workers just think that I work and play volleyball all the time. That's pretty true too! lol |
mekos
Fair Play, SC
(Zone 7b)
June 10, 2009
05:15 PM Post #6669829
| Family and couple friends. |
ToucanOasis
Tilaran
Costa Rica
July 16, 2009
09:17 AM Post #6826018
| My accountant. |
redchic01
southern willamette , OR
(Zone 7a)
July 17, 2009
02:58 AM Post #6829723
| lol!! I guess if there's anyone that should know, it should be your accountant! |
