Arlene Wright-Correll

The Confessions of a Plant-A-Holic ©



Posted: Friday, September 05, 2008

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I think it is almost impossible for me to wait for spring each year in order to get a bunch of plants growing outside.

Since we moved to Kentucky and a smaller home I have had to curtail my indoor plants to about 12 feet of African Violets and several Poinsettias during the holiday season.

But outside in the spring I am a raging maniac even though I declare each fall I am going "on the wagon" during the winter when my family hides all the plant, seed, tree and bulb catalogs from me and I swear I will take the "pledge" and not order anything online during the winter.

I make up lists that I call my "Someday I'll" Lists. Someday I'll grow a chocolate tree (Theobroma), someday I'll grow some orchids, someday I'll grow a cactus garden, someday I'll grow a Zantedeschia aethiopica Green Goddess or someday I'll grow a Salvia discolor and as my list grows I hid them all over the place like a demented squirrel who forgets where she puts them until a couple of years later when I come across them and wonder what the heck I was thinking about when I wrote that.

In the fall I content myself by telling everyone who listens and rolls their eyes that all the mums filling the dining room table is part of my fall or Thanksgiving decorations. Three years later I still have my spooky ghost hovering over a ceramic pumpkin from which grows an air plant. I try each year to grow Christmas cactus with little or no luck. However, the poinsettias arrive right after Thanksgiving and stay around to the next season unless I forget to bring them back in from the gardens in the following fall.

I have to content myself with the African Violets, the window sill herbs and the occasional small flowering plant until the pots of early tulips show up in our local garden center and then of course I must bring some home justify the fact that I can later replant them outside. Quickly the pots of Easter Lilies seem to fall right into my path and somehow manage to wind up in my shopping cart. One is pretty, two is prettier, but three pots of them make a grand statement and I can always replant them outside.

As I enter the house with these treasures I am greeted by different members of my family who say, "I thought you were going to stop doing this!" I reply, "I am, one day at a time"!

"Tread the Earth Lightly" and in the meantime May your day be filled with

Peace, Light and Love,

Author's note: This article was originally written for GreenThumbArticles.com

About the Author & Artist. Arlene Wright-Correll (1935- ___), popular American award winning Artist, published author, columnist, & is the resident art instructor for Avalon Stained Glass School, at the age of 68, decided to pick up her paint brushes again after 54 years and paint.  She is a cancer and stroke survivor who is able to strive forward each and everyday to welcome the beauty of this small planet.  She also is a China & Porcelain painter, Sandblasting & Etching, Stained Glass & fused glass Artisan. She is one of the six KY Artists who worked 6 months to create the dolls for Journey Jots in 2006 and a Smithsonian Institute art exhibit in 2008. Her published books can be found here . She is also a featured writer for GreenThumbArticles.com and teaches Art Vacation Holidays at Avalon Stained Glass School and Creativity Center.

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