What do sunflowers wear under their clothes? Sunderwear, of course! Fear not, most of the gardening humor here is way funnier than my jokes. In fact, gardening humor is often about looking back at our mistakes and finding the funny in our flower fails or the laugh in our lettuce patch.
But sometimes, gardening humor is about what we silly gardeners do that must look absolutely absurd to most normal people. Take, for example, wondering why on earth anyone would want to go get manicures? You’re just going to get your fingernails dirty again! Or there’s the story of planting plastic forks.
Admittedly, even experienced gardeners wouldn’t be all that sure what Emily-Jane Hills Orford is up to when she plants 150 Plastic Forks. As most gardeners do, though, Emily-Jane has a very good reason for this seemingly strange behavior.
How about some gardening humor that mentions actual plants? Robert Christensen discovered gardening humor when he planted azaleas. Or rather, when he faced the decision of what to do with his azaleas that had stopped growing. Why? That was the question he asked everyone. Even his bus driver began including him in his pre-trip announcement: “No tobacco. No alcohol. No cell phones. And does anybody know why healthy azaleas would suddenly stop growing?”
Everything became clear one afternoon at a stoplight. Can you guess why his plants stopped growing? Read My No-Grow Azaleas to find out – and to learn what he did about it. Oh, by the way, don’t follow his example!
Feel free to stay a while and enjoy all the gardening humor we have to share below. And be sure to check out our Gardening Humor Freebie while you’re here, which features a hand-picked selection of our favorite stories from this category.
I have to say, the technique for keeping squirrels out of a garden that Emily-Jane Hills Orford shared in today’s story, 150 Plastic Forks, was new to me. The medium is—you guessed it—plastic forks. It was new to her friend Susan too. You know a Susan too—the one with the picture-perfect garden and no yellow […]
Do you remember when you were a young budding gardener, and you thought, “one day I’ll be like those other gardeners, with their perfectly pruned tomatoes, their pollinator gardens, and their field of home-grown corn”? I do, but the more time I spend surrounded by “real” gardeners, the more I’ve come to see my hard […]
I’m not even sure where to start with today’s story, “The Tulip Thief,” by Carmen De Vito. It’s a story about being robbed while working at The Horticultural Society of New York, which in and of itself is wild. I mean, if I was going to rob a place, a part-garden-store-part-library is not the first […]
I’m curious to know what a typical day of gardening tasks looks like for you out in the garden. I’ve admitted this several times before, but I’m not one of those people who loves to weed. I’ve had arthritis in my back since my early twenties, and I doubt it will ever be on my […]
Oh gosh, I just love today’s story, Gardening as Mothering. It starts out with an empty-nester who is excited to garden in all of her newfound free time, which, honestly, I couldn’t relate to at all at first! Why should gardening need to be an empty nest hobby? For me, gardening has been the one […]
It’s hard not to think about life and death in the garden because you’re witnessing it over and over throughout the growing season. My garden story is that each year I plant a number of perennials in the flower gardens hoping they stay bright and alive all season long in one way or another, but […]
We all have a funny garden story or humorous plant escapade. Heck, there are tons of them here in GreenPrints Magazine. There’s the story about the chickens that ate all the tomatoes, more than a few stories about composting, and even some amusing asparagus tales. And you thought asparagus was a serious vegetable! The garden […]
Okay, maybe the writer of today’s story could use a Roses for Dummies tutorial. But then we wouldn’t have this enjoyable story about learning some gardening lessons the hard way. But then, we’ve all had our gardening moments, right? Whether it’s Roses for Dummies or How Not to Overwater Your Ficus, Amanda!, almost every gardener […]
If you’re going to throw a tomato at someone’s car, you would do it in Summer, right? After all, Summer is when all those juicy, ripe, delicious tomatoes are in season. You have plenty to enjoy for yourself, and some leftover for throwing. But what about late-Winter? Assuming you could find a wonderfully ripe, juicy, […]
When I think of how many treasures and funny gardening stories that readers have shared with us over the years, many of my favorites involve children finding their way around their first garden. I recall my own children praying over tiny seeds, nurturing baby seedlings, and then promptly forgetting about them until a tomato or […]
