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Who cares about the laptop? I think it would be nice to go somewhere you can just write, watch movies, and play games on your laptop, instead of working.

I'm all for recycling materials to make new things and cut back on waste, but I'm sorry this is hideous. It looks like it came from a dumpster. I wouldn't want this in my house :-(

Yea, not stained glass. I think you mean cut glass......

I love the one in Glen Mills....Although it's solely responsible for the horrible debt I'm currently in this month.....*le sigh*

I had a beautiful little container garden of baby lettuce sprouting in that gorgeous neon green...And then a stupid Goose came along and ate up every single one. I give up.

I must admit, I only read this because of the FOTC poster....

I'm a 29-year-old Gen Y-er and I was definitely taken aback by your title and absolutely prepared to give you a talking to.......But luckily I am not a rash 29-year-old, and I did actually read your article, much to my relief. I absolutely agree with everything you said - ESPECIALLY the part about Terrain! I am lucky enough to live a mere 30 minutes from that Gardner's equivalent to Pinocchio's Toyland (for that very reason I cannot go too often!). So, in answer to some of your questions:

1) Yes. I absolutely DO garden and it's more than a hobby, it's a way of life. All I have to do is come home after a day at the office, look at my blooms, and somehow everything else just melts away; instantaneous peace.
2) I am quite good at gardening- I even have a Garden Photo Blog on Facebook every year that apparently has such a following that I receive complaints when I lag in updates.
3) Every time my parents come over to my little apartment they are just blown away - and more than a little jealous. I try to teach them the tips, but they are not very good at listening to me, their progeny. Imagine that.
4) I often ask myself why the heck I'm so into gardening and from what I can figure out, it's sort of like nesting...I'm 29 and single, working on all that stuff, and I have to channel that nurturing energy into SOMETHING, I guess...It's the time of life that we Y-ers are currently in...
5) Why don't I garden more? Or rather, why isn't it more widespread within my generation? Well, besides the marketing issues that you mentioned in your blog, I think it has a lot to do with finances. As I said, I'm 29 and have my own apartment, am working my first job- and every year I spend over $100 on mail-order plants because the local offerings are slim pickins. And for every 3 plants that thrive, there is 1 that does not. That's money I've thrown away....But the blooms that do make it somehow cause me to forget the dollars that didn't...Also, going back to the Marketing aspect- as I said, part of that has to do with the variety offered in stores; I'm not a Petunia and Pansies sort of girl. I like Firewitch Dianthus and Columbine and orange Calla Lillies- trust me, you won't find those in stores. Whether this is a good or bad thing, we are the Urban Outfitters, the Terrain, the Modcloth generation, and we are not satisfied with terra cotta planters and cobblestone paths. My garden is lined in broken tea sets that I designed myself- I suppose what all this means is that there needs to be some combination of quirky and economical in order to appeal to us Y-ers...As much as we want to, it cannot be completely denied that there is SOMETHING to the fallout theory of the mass media/social networking frenzy that us Y-ers seem to feed off of....And this extends even into our tastes in nature, it seems.