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Clairton, PA Zone 6(USDA has c  lclehman1 Mar 17, 2018 5:47 AM CST |
| A friend and I are coeditors of our local rock garden society newsletter, The Alpine Line. We are working on a humorous article called Murphy's Laws for Gardeners. Here are a couple we have come up with 1. Deer will eat only the most expensive plants and leave the weeds. 2. When sowing seeds, plants that are like weeds will germinate like hair on the back of a dog while the seed of the most desirable will sulk, produce only a few seedlings or not germinate at all. e. A gardener will tend to loose his favorite tool! 4.The most desirable plants will be the first to succomb to drought, summer humidity mugs, early frosts and other weather abnormalities Anyone have other suggestions |
Name: Porkpal Richmond, TX             porkpal Mar 17, 2018 11:57 AM CST |
| It will always rain right after you have watered thoroughly. There will be a severe spring freeze right after you set out your tomatoes. How about a Peter Principal corollary: The gardener will expand his garden to the level of his inability to maintain it. Porkpal |
Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost   DaisyI Mar 17, 2018 2:54 PM CST |
I can't think of any. But, in item e. change loose to lose. It will make a lot more sense that way.  Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost President: Orchid Society of Northern Nevada Webmaster: osnnv.org |
Name: Will Currie Hoke co NC (Zone 8a)   UncleWill Mar 17, 2018 6:44 PM CST |
| Any plant diseases that show up will be the type that your favorites are vulnerable to. |
Name: Dirt (Zone 5b)            dirtdorphins Mar 17, 2018 8:17 PM CST |
| That prized, exorbitantly expensive plant you imported will turn out to be a NOID after you tend it patiently for three years to bloom Inevitably, a less desirable plant will out-compete and consume your precious baby --fill in the blank-- (probably because) You will never learn not to try and squeeze in just one more precious baby --fill in the blank-- |
Name: Lyn Weaverville, California (Zone 8a)   RoseBlush1 Mar 18, 2018 12:30 AM CST |
| Gardeners with lots of sun always fall in love with shade plants. Gardeners with lots of shade want to grow plants that need more sun. I'd rather weed than dust ... the weeds stay gone longer. |
Name: Rj Just S of the twin cities of M (Zone 4b)  crawgarden Mar 18, 2018 6:01 PM CST |
| The plants you most want are always 1 cold tolerant zone higher than your zone. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. |
Name: Porkpal Richmond, TX porkpal Mar 18, 2018 6:24 PM CST |
| - and sold at the local big box stores anyway. Porkpal |
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