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Definition of an Orchid Addict |
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| You know you're addicted to orchids, when ... | Contributor |
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... you read all these definitions and you start to laugh, thinking that you REALLY do all these things.... |
Greenorchid New! |
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... you are more careful about the fertilizers that you use to feed your plants than on the food you eat. |
Ricardo in PR New! |
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... the powerful, gut-churning smell of a pile of dead rodents decomposing in the sun starts emanating from your greenhouse is delightful news because it means your Bulbophyllum echinolabium plant has finally bloomed. |
Ricardo in PR New! |
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... you buy a house based on whether or not it has room for a greenhouse. |
David C. of San Diego New! |
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... you spend all morning observing them, while you were supposed to have been at work an hour ago. |
Carlos M. |
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... you leave the dog in the back yard with an automatic feeder while on vacation but hire a family member or friend to check the humidity needs of your orchids, and you encourage her to sit with them for a while and spend 'quality time'. |
Anonymous |
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... you keep insisting that you are not addicted to them. |
Yoshi |
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... you have a couch and a rocking chair for furniture, and there really isn't room for the rocker. |
Binky |
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... you notice orchids in the background décor of TV shows and wonder if they are real and if it's real what the name might be, and while wondering all this you miss the most important plot twist of the show and really don't care because now you are wondering which of your plants might be in spike. |
Anoma mouse |
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... at Home Depot you accost anyone who looks remotely interested in buying an orchid and invite them to join your orchid club. |
Anoma mouse |
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... you add a couple extra rows of shower curtain rods over the tub in the guest bath shower to hang the vandas when watering them, and the rods stay there permanently. |
Posey |
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... your only "passengers" in the car are none other than orchids. |
Rainforest |
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... you try to avoid letting your family see you slip out to take just one more look at your orchids because you are too embarrassed to have them know how many times you've actually done that in the span of a few hours. |
Elizabeth/NY |
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... you stop counting them. |
JimR - LAX |
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... you keep a secret credit card account and have the statements AND all your orchid purchases sent to a friend's house because your family wouldn't understand why you pay more for one plant than little Johnny's braces were supposed to cost. |
Mycorrhizae |
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... you start checking with all your friends to see who wants to combine orders just so you can get a bigger discount and get more plants. |
Einstein |
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... you are happy and excited to get a job at a remote, very sparsely inhabited, forested area with awful road because it's perfect for your intermediate-growing orchids. |
Ricardo in PR |
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... you order one while fretting that you many not be able to get the ones you already have (which no longer fit in the growing area of your house) into the greenhouse rental space before it freezes. |
Pam C |
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... you take a few orchids on vacation with you. |
Ron-NY |
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... you drive through a blizzard to take advantage of a winter orchid sale. |
Ron-NY |
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... you dream about looking through a catalog of orchids. |
Ron-NY |
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... you promise yourself a fixed number of plants to buy at a show and leave with more than twice the amount. |
ruthjanette |
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... you buy a NOID at a supermarket to save it from a certain death and from then on refer to it as a 'rescue plant'. |
ruthjanette |
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