Chris wrote: My husband can not understand the amount I give away and amount of new plants I buy. How familiar does this sound. You store your new plants at a friends house for a while. You buy plants when you know that the containers can go out in the trash the next day. Hush! My neighbor and I have been hiding plants at each other's houses for a couple of years now. Her husband has yet to catch on. My dog has, however. She gives me a dirty look when I come in the house after a nursery run, as if to say, "well, now, isn't that just fine and dandy. You tell *me* that you don't have room for a single new plant (and that's why I'm not allowed to wander through the garden), and then you go off and buy more plants-and you won't even let me help you plant them." Catharine