Polly, how nice that you're that close to Jo Ann!
I had the same experience except it was with houseplants and a neighbor's DIL. I haven't heard a peep about plants since. I'm fairly certain those are all dead.
My one gardening friend here and I go out for breakfast just about every weekend and then see what kind of mischief we can get ourselves into ... which usually involves plants. Lots of plants.
I blame her but it's about 50/50.