Do you get emotionally attached to the plants in your garden ?

I do feel a very strong feeling of responsibility for the plants in my care and as a result I become extraordinarily upset when a plant is lost. Is this “emotional attachment?”

Grammaretto I love Daphne we had a bush when I was growing up. It reminds me of the whip and top season. I now have 2 in my garden.

This garden has had several incarnations since we moved here, when there was virtually nothing in it at all. The only thing I would miss, and which are getting priority watering in this current dry spell, would be my collection of hostas, and a large pot of Agapanthus, both of which we brought from the lovely mature garden of our last house. I miss everything about that garden.

The plant that means the most to me is Amicia zygomeris which came from The Manor at Hemingford Grey in 2018.

DD1 asked it’s name and misheard me thinking I said
‘I miss ya’ and laughed saying she wasn’t going anywhere.
She died six months later.

I’m always relieved and happy when ‘I miss ya’ reappears every spring.

Not to the general garden plants, but in tubs I’ve 2 hydrangeas given to me by a good friend who died in ‘23 and 2 rhododendrons which I took as cuttings from my Dads garden after he died in ‘07. I’ve asked the DDs to take one of each (if they’d like to) when the time comes to sell my house. There’s also a variegated poplar given to DH by his best friend, when we first moved here in ‘93, but that can’t be moved. Several people have asked for cuttings, which seem to root and grow well.

Not so much plants, as trees. In our last house for 25 of the 30 years we lived there, the back garden was dominated by a huge hazel tree, the largest the tree surgeon had ever seen.

It was about 70 feet from the house, smack in the middle of the lawn. All our rooms looked out onto the back lawn and could see it in all its beauty. Then one day I noticed a crack in one of the trunks.

I called in the tree surgeon, who went round the six intertwined trunks. he said hazel was not a long lived trees and there was rot in all the trunks. The tree needed to come down. So it came down and I wept.

The tree surgeon was right, even though it had only started to show in one trunk, all trunks had the first signs of rot. I started to grow the tree up again from the stump and had got about 10 shoots about 10 feet high when we moved.

I have a dying honeysuckle too. I think it's the dry weather. Their common name is woodbine and they are happiest in semi shade winding around trees.

Yes nanna8 I get very attached to plants.
I've struggled to grow Daphne and at last I have a successful one with a strong scent.

Funny about honeysuckle. We had one for years and years just growing pretty wild in the back next to our deck but last year it just disappeared. Perhaps there is a worldwide honeysuckle bug around ?

I’m very attached to two of my plants. My friends bought them as a birthday present and came and planted them for me as I’m not known for my green fingers.
The honeysuckle is not doing well and I'm gutted. They’re coming to see me next week, so I’m hoping there’s something that can be done 🤞