1. Your garden can make you every bit as late to work as a crying child, maybe later.

2. If the thought runs through your mind that you should go change clothes before you do that one thing in the garden, you better run right then and change clothes. The garden doesn't care that what you have on may not like dirt or some other stain on it.

3. An underground creature will find a way into a pot if given enough time to think and chew on it. If said creature can not find a way in, it will probably tell some other creature about a tasty morsel that is in the pot. However, if it is a weed, NO creature will EVER touch it.

4. Treat it like a weed, and maybe it will grow like one. If you really like it, and treat it as such, it very well may die on you. Especially if you want to share it with someone. If it is a bulb that you are planning to dig up and share, some creature probably will want it too.

5. Birds and creatures will probably get too the tasty morsel the day before you do.

6. If you are not sure that a plant will like the very hot place you have decided to put it, put it in a pot. It is much easier to move when you have decided it is too darn hot, or it shows you that it doesn't like it there. Or just go sit there for a while. You know what I mean.

7. You can always see a plant that needs attention when you are trying to go somewhere. The later you are, the more attention it needs. If you are with a child, tell said child that the plant is crying and they will immediately want to take care of it, especially if it wants water. This works even when on the way to the pool or the park. However, you must be careful of being there too long or you risk getting sprayed with the hose.

8. If you stay outside long enough, your mind will wander...