And look what happened!
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Showing off.
I have never in my life been able to coax an orchid - or anything, for that matter - into blooming again. I am so complete and dismal a failure at tending indoor houseplants I long ago determined that, for me, a potted flower was simply a longer lasting cut flower, and out they went with nary a tear when they had spent their last blossom. But my daughter, a youthful gardener still convinced of the bursting fecundity of nature, convinced me to save a couple of orchids instead of pitching them on the compost pile.
And look what happened!
And look what happened!
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I'll bet I could kill it! Plants come to my house when they want to commit suicide. That little card on a stick that comes with the plant says "Goodbye, cruel world".
ReplyDeleteVery off topic, but: Colorado state legislators and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs to coeds: "When rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it", because women are too emotional and hysterical to know when they are being, or are about to be, raped, so they should not be allowed to carry firearms.
DeleteVirtual President Whittle VSOTU on gun control.
DeleteDANG! This link doesn't work. Is it this one?
DeleteHAHAHAHAHA! Ogrrre, that's been me my entire life. I love gardening outside and consider myself somewhat passable, but indoor plants tremble in my awful, deadly presence. That's why I so damned pleased with myself. This is miracle stuff right here. You know, like Christ and Lazarus and raising the dead.
DeleteOops, let's try this link.
DeleteAbout the whole rape thing --- HOW THE FUCK DO THE DEMOCRATS GET AWAY WITH THAT KIND OF INSANITY? I honestly believe that Democrats are so brainwashed that they simply do NOT even hear what their own candidates are saying. It's like they've been programmed. If a Democrat says it, then it's okay. Doesn't matter what it is. It's fine. If a Republican says it then it is bad, awful, scary, wroooooong. Just because. Every time. No brain power needed.
DeleteIt's been drummed into their heads everywhere and for their whole lives that Democrats = Good and Republicans = Bad. Any contrary information that gets in is assumed to be a fluke and gets ignored. I think it can build up over time, in some people at least, until there's that one final story/experience that finally breaks the illusion. That's why the media work so hard to bury those stories or counterbalance a bad Democrat story with two bad Republican stories.
DeleteOooh. Purty. You probably scared it into producing after it heard "compost pile". The only actual houseplant I've ever been able to get to bloom reliably was a Christmas cactus. When I lived in Houston I did pretty well with paperwhites and amaryllis transplanted outdoors after they finished in the pot. I used to have a potted plumeria that was pretty reliable, it lived outdoors in the summer though. Then a couple of years ago, the power failed in the greenhouse and it got just a touch of frost and that finished it. Rotted from the tip all the way to the ground. I miss that one, the flowers smelled like fresh cut peaches.
ReplyDeleteI LOOOOOVE the smell of plumeria. Takes me to Hawaii with just a sniff.
DeleteI pot up paperwhites every Christmas for indoor blooming, but then just toss them. Haven't been able to get them to bloom outside after forcing them indoors. Oh, they come up...but just send up long leaves. No blooms. I tried an amaryllis this year and it was a total, wrenching failure.
My uncle would take a piece of baling wire and beat the living crap out of his tomato plants if they decided they weren't going to put on fruit. After the beating, they bore fruit to beat the band. It worked every time, he said.
DeleteAlso, in the Organ Mountains in southern New Mexico, there is a small fernlike plant, that when crushed smells like mandarin oranges and coconut. Don't know the name of the plant, but I won't forget the scent.
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