I’m pleased to announce that the gardening catalogs have finally given up on me.
They’ve figured out that as much as I love looking at pretty plants, I will inevitably end up killing them.
It’s happened more than once. I’ll look through the pretty pictures and decide I want a beautiful garden of this or that, edged by this or that, with delightful accents of this or that. I’ll order stuff, plant it with all the love I can muster, and wait.
Nothing ever looks the same as it does in the catalog.
Nothing ever survives through the end of the season.
So I gave up.
For years afterward, the catalogs would still continue to arrive nonetheless.
This year they finally seem to have stopped.
Perhaps the plant manufacturers are trying to save on postage costs, and part of their plan is to stop mailing catalogs to serial plant killers.
It’s a good plan.
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They don’t come to me anymore either. It’s just as well. I get enough catalogs with things I can’t buy in them.
Posted 20 Apr 2009 at 1:11 am ¶Big time saver, too. You can just go to Home Depot and kill the plants there, though they do frown on that.
Posted 20 Apr 2009 at 4:10 pm ¶We’d be gone if it weren’t for you.
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