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.
The Great Gardening Detective Agency (Now Accepting New Cases!) If there’s one thing we’ve learned at GreenPrints, it’s that humor sprouts abundantly whenever seasoned gardeners interact with non-gardeners—or, even better, non-gardeners who suddenly decide they’d like to become gardeners. Enter Sherry and our storyteller, two well-versed green thumbs with a Master Gardener badge (unofficial, but proudly […]
Haven’t we all had a forehead-smacking discovery once—ok maybe more than once—in our gardening lives? I know I have, but not one quite as laughably cringe-inducing as the gardening humor piece I’m sharing with you today. I felt this one – ouch! When we come into our gardens with big ideas and maybe an even […]
When I imagine garden decor, I usually think of smaller items. Maybe it’s a little gnome sitting at the edge of the sunflowers or little bells hanging from a branch of the apple tree. I might even say that some of my plant labels qualify as garden decor, since they get quite colorful thanks to […]
If you’ve had the pleasure of working a customer service job of any kind, you’ll be able to relate to the nursery man in this story. Of course, most customers are polite and appreciative. Some of them even bring you treats on holidays! And there are some people who just aren’t happy with anything. Whoever […]
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 […]
“I’ve always respected senior garden mentors. I even grow elderberries,” writes the author of today’s piece, “Gardening Keeps Me Young.” And the theme of today’s story is exactly that: respect your gardening elders, they have great gardening advice! Think about everything you’ve learned over the years, and how long it took you to learn every […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some days you’re swatting off mealybug and digging trenches to dissuade rogue bunnies, but then other days you find yourself in the dirt chasing off some squash-munching squealing pigs. Oh, that hasn’t happened to you before? Well, if you gave me a choice, I think I’d choose the pigs, thanks to this hilarious piece I’m […]
