Ohhhh I love you @myjob! A plant saver, rescuer, transplanter - a husband who pulls up plants and you take pity on them -
You know, there is a big school of thought on plants having feelings. My niece took an herbology course in Minnesota, founded by the author of a big fat book on herbalism (or founded by Matt Wood, who wrote the foreword to the book):

“The work of the herbalist is to understand the intricate patterns of Nature and how they are woven into the architecture of people and plants, to see them as mirror images of the Earth and cosmos, parts that contain the whole.”
― Sajah Popham, Evolutionary Herbalism: Science, Spirituality, and Medicine from the Heart of Nature
He works in tarot and astrology, and other traditions, so it may be a little suspect.
Or maybe the alignment of the stars, the pull of the moon, all that stuff does matter...?

@owasco, did I already send you links to the book?