When the people in the nurseries recognize you and ask, "why haven't you visited us lately?"
or
when the same people remember your past purchases and ask, "did you run out of clay pots yet?"
or
"how are those seedlings coming along?"
or tell you,
"let me show you this. I know YOU'LL like it" and they are right.
When your colleagues bring other colleagues that you've never met to your office with their sick, overwatered plants and say, "see, I told you she knows what she's talking about."
when you have a
"Please DO NOT TOUCH THE ORCHIDS" sign in your office, because you are tired of the same colleagues touching your blooms.