Hi, I'm Kaleea, and I'm a gardenerholic.
    ("hi, Kaleea.")
I've been in recovery for for several years now. I'd prolly still be out in the garden if life hadn't thrown me a few curves & I don't have a yard now &, well, the old back & knees won't bend much anymore anyways, and now I'm in an apartment.
I used to have houseplants, but when I moved cross country, I gave away all my plants. Cold turkey. Just like that. I even gave away my beloved Shamrock I didn't think would make it all those days in the hot car. And a few packages of flower seeds I had stashed. And the few tools I had left.
No seed catalogs. No Bulb catalogs. No pots. No gardening magazines. Not even the Mother Earth News. Just a couple of vases for cut flowers.
I'm a little worried, though. Friends came over for dinner last weekend & brought a Poinsettia. I gingerly watered it yesterday. It's really pretty. I'm afraid that I'll decide to keep it after the holidays. That's where it all can start again. Waltzing it in & out of the closet. Comparing notes with others re their Poinsettias. When to bring it completely back out in the light. Keeping it out on my balcony, where it would look lonely & in need of company.
I'm planning to be gone for a couple of weeks over Christmas, & I think the best thing would be to give the darn thing away. Somebody has to come in & feed the cat, though, and it would be easy to ask them to just water it a couple of times. The Poinsettia--not the cat. She doesn't need water on her roots. Anyways, it's terribly tempting.
It's only one plant.
After the first of the year is when the real big push for getting catalogs happens. Would it really hurt to just look at a catalog?
What should I do?