Gardener as Leader

Okay, I admit it. 'Tis the season to be obsessed with gardening. I'm out there every second that can spare, digging, planting, weeding, and watering. And then when it's dark, I come indoors to my computer, and instead of working on revising my novel, I connect to gardening websites and read avidly about the mysteries of growing potatoes, or how to mulch properly. Most recently, I have discovered a gardening social network called Folia that allows one to keep a gardening journal online and much, much more.

Lately, I was involved in some leadership workshops. In keeping with my current obsession, I began reflecting on what you can tell about a person's leadership style from the kind of gardener he or she is. Here are a few examples:

• plants vegetables, not flowers -- pragmatic leader
  
• plants intensively -- concerned with productivity, and careful husbanding of resources
• seeds too thickly -- lacks confidence; failure averse
• turns all the garden into lawn -- not a nurturing type
• digs and turns over the soil by hand; handpicks weed roots and bugs -- engaged in the day-to-day functioning of the organization; possibly a micro-manager
  
• Uses a motorized tiller -- efficient; seeks power
• uses organic gardening methods -- concerned about healthy relationships and team building
• uses fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides -- efficient, possibly ruthless, needs to be in control; any means to an end
• Doesn't keep up with the weeding -- dislikes the dirty work; disorganized
• Doesn't keep up with the watering -- lacks focus and disorganized; possibly incompetent
• Plantings are not suited to climatic zone or recommended planting dates -- lacks appropriate knowledge; doesn't do background research; poor planner
• Plants the same thing every year according to schedule -- solid and dependable, but lacks creativity and vision

And so on. Do you have any to add here?