You Might Be a Gardener If …

You’ve been known to use pretty much anything as a planter – a leaky birdbath, a hollowed out rock…
You’ve given sections of your yard their own names (as if you are running your own personal arboretum); the Woodland Garden, The Cacti Garden, The Peninsula Gardens.
You have more seed packets than actual vegetables in the crisper drawer of the refrigerator
You’d rather buy perennials than clothes
You believe the best kinds of plants originate in a friend’s garden
You obsess about rain predictions and actual rainfall more than your average farmer
You’ve learned to give yourself gardening grace. You realize that it’s OK to pull up a plant that you’ve coddled for five years and to move something three time before you find the right spot
You have some sort of compost operation set up in your yard. (Even if you haven’t yet figured out how to produce actual compost.)
You know the difference between mulch and compost and how best to use each and know where to buy the best local ones
“Help with digging” is one of your love languages
The way you work your flower beds or vegetable garden reminds you of the children’s book, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
You save and swap seeds with neighbors and friends
You fantasize about seeing friendly critters in the garden
Garden Critter

With thanks to Lois Flowers and others