Do you get attached to your house plants the same way you get attached to your pets?

Over the past 20+ years I have moved cross country twice. The last time I did this was 12 years ago, and at that time I had lived at this location for about 15 years. Each time I moved I had to give up my beautiful house plants.

We were on a budget so I bought my plants as seedlings and I raised them for ... well 15 and 12 years. As they grew I bought larger pots. I fed and watered them with love.

Before I moved this last time, I spent six months finding the right people to adopt my plants. I made sure that they would appreciate and take care of them to the best of their ability. I even made sure that one place a nonprofit org.

Had enough lighting. Anyway, I just realized while watering this morning, that I have one plant now with me for 25 years! I managed to cut a piece off each time we moved and brought it with me on the airplane (inside a plastic bag) I couldn't take the big plant itself, but it is the same plant.

Does this make me a "Tree Hugger"? What about you? Are you attached?

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Not a tree hugger... I’m not entirely sure that it’s the exact same kind of emotional attachment. In my opinion, when you "raise" something, from a "seedling", you take on a sense of responsibility and dedication to it... I have never had a green thumb or been one of those people that could spit in the wind and grow a field of gorgeous flowers, but I have had some recent luck with a few plants in the past few months. I now find myself worrying about their maintenance when I am not present and I also find myself eager to prune and or water and feed the plants.

I am definitely "involved" and concerned with these plants, but I think it’s a very healthy attachment. I do not think you are a tree hugger. I think you are a person who takes pride and care in everything they do.

Maybe those plants also hold on to a few memories, and subconciously, you are attached to them for that very reason. Now Honey, if you start avoiding people and only speaking to plants, we might have to re-answer this. ;) .

I keep over watering them and killing them by mistake so I can't get too attached, but I love plants.... The kitchen is like a green house and I love nature inside. My son calls me a tree hugger.

Not quite the same I have plants for which I have an inordinate sentimental attachment, but it’s nowhere what I feel for my pets. Some of my plants are over 30 years old and have come with me through many moves. For our last move, our daughter drove our car here and it was full to the ceiling with my plants, with barely enough room for her.

I get a chuckle when I think about what the people on the interstate who noticed must have thought! Others used to belong to my parents and grandparents, who are no longer here. I feel an urgent need to keep them alive and healthy and feel a loss when I fail.

A psychologist would probably make something of that, but whatever… I don’t like to lose any plants. It’s ego-busting to not be able to keep a plant alive! But there’s just no comparison to pets.

I am grief-stricken for months if not years. I can still work up tears for my first dog that died in 1971. I’ll forget a plant in a few months, but I will never forget my animals.

Are you a tree-hugger? Sure, why not? Be proud of it, as well as your sentimentality.

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I'm so attached to them that most have names Not names like the kind of plant they are...but names that relate to their arrival... When my mom-in-law passed away years ago, we received a 'sympathy' plant from my husband's co-workers. When we moved from CT to FL, this plant just had to come with us...her name is 'Mommy'. My elderly aunt passed away back in '93 and when we were cleaning out her house, there was one little plant that nobody wanted."Aunt Bunny' has thrived, had children and has been divided and repotted a couple of times.... When I had a 'landmark' birthday, my neighborhood friends threw me a surprise party.

Two of my gifts were Arican Violets...one from Jack, and one from Debbie...yup, you guessed it, those are the plants names. Banboozer is a bamboo plant that's reaching for the ceiling...LOL...a yard sale find... I never thought that I had a 'green thumb' but somehow these plants have survived. I do feel very attached to them, each one brings back a sweet memory.

Sources: My experience HELENofTROY's Recommendations Naming living things: The grouping of plants and animals Used from: $5.94 Tales From the Plant Kingdom (A Reference Collection of Legends and Stories About the Creation, Characteristics and Naming of Plants) Used from: $48.00 .

I guess I do I've never thought about it, but I guess I do. When we moved from Texas to Iowa here, I brought all of my plants with me. There was never a question whether they were coming or not.

They were the last things to be put in the moving truck. All of them made it just fine. One in particular is dear to my heart.

When I had to have my precious cat put to sleep down there, the vet knew how hard I was taking it. S office sent me a plant at my office. Being a compassionate man, he may do that for everyone, I don't know.

Half of the root system died. I could tell it was iffy when I got it. But the other half made it & I still have that plant.It means a lot to me.

Sources: my plants .

I think that my newest cat is trying to use my house plants for an alternative litter box.

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