plants

I used to believe that trees were not alive, so sometimes my brother and I would go outside with his little plastic tool set and chip bark off of the ones in our front yard. We always got tired of playing construction workers with the toy wood block that never even changed when we hammered it, so we liked to pretend that we were doing "important work" on the trees.

When I learned in school that trees were actually alive, I felt so bad about hurting ours! I figured it must have been like were were chipping off their skin and they probably hated us now. When I got home, I hugged our trees and apologized to them. Needless to say, we never "worked" on the trees again.

BandGeek

I used to believe that the cardboard barriers that surround newly gowing trees were graves of people that had died in that field/platation and so therefor that ground was evil... i was so young lol

Lucie

when i was 4 or 5, i got a little fun necklace you could (supposedly) grow plants in. The necklace was like large locket and came with seeds and this gel that helped the seeds grow. I believed that if your hands touched the gel, that plants would grow where ever you touched it! i remember FREAKING out because i touched it haha! but i found out i was worrying over nothing because i was fine afterwards.

Paige

After I had learned that plants were living things, I came to the conclusion that they could think! I remember looking at a tree and wondering what it could possibly be thinking about. I also wondered how plants felt about staying still ALL THE TIME.

Anon

for some strange reason, i thought sequoya was pronounced "squeak-edy-dockedy-an". dont ask me why. i was a strange child.

Anon

i used to believe that there was a plant from which money used to fall down if one tells a charm

crystal 92

I used to watch 'Day Of The Triffids' when I was a child and feared that certain large plants would chase me and kill me.

Tony

We have a garden at my parents' house and when I was five we sowed carrot seeds. I looked at the package of the seeds and what I saw I thought were sausages so I asked my mom: are we going to sow sausages too? she answered those are just thick carrots....

Setanta

I used to believe that you bought your grass from a turf accountant. We needed a new lawn and mum and dad seemed really perplexed where to buy it from. I couldn't understand why. Dad used to spend so much time in teh turf accountants on a Saturday I assumed he was an expert!

Jenny Copeland

i thought that the world was so big that somewhere there was a grape that was as big as a tree.

robert

i used to believe that if leftover cooked rice is thrown in kitchen garden, then new paddies come out from soil.

bipin

I used to think plants ate the kind of food people do, like hamburgers.

Cindy

one of my first memories is of my mom pointing out poision ivy to me and telling me to stay away from it. I kept looking where she was pointing, but couldn't see it - I was looking for an animal of some kind, not a plant.

Anon

When my daughter was in kindergarten, one of her little classmates pointed out the berries on a juniper bush and informed us, "Those are caterpillar eggs."

Annie's mom

i was convinced that evergreen trees were maple trees and i wouldn't go near them because I saw an evil looking one in Snow White.

Anon

When I was little I was scared of spider plants, cause I thought they had spiders in them. And actually . . . they often do! =P

theresa

Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.

angelsheep

When I was at infants school one of the first things we did was grow mustard cress to make our own sandwiches. I never understood how they got the mustard into the cress while it was growing.
Similarly I always thought "egg and cress" sandwiches were "egg cress" and that was a different type of cress which they put eggs in while it was growing.
I still don't really understand mustard cress.

Katie