Local garden shop
on November 1, 2020 at 12:01 amChapter: The Beginnings of the Ends
Characters: David Walkerton, Joe Rosenthal
Location: Joyce and Walky's apartment
As it turns out, Maggie buys plants the same way I buy Transformers.
As it turns out, Maggie buys plants the same way I buy Transformers.
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does she also edit a plant wiki and fight over it?
Continuing from yesterday’s theme…
THIS is entirely alien to me. We have like one potted plant total, and it was a gift from years ago that we’ve somehow kept alive. No other potted plant has survived us, not even a potted cilantro we got to clip for herbs that was supposed to be practically unkillable. We mostly stopped trying back during our early dating days.
What? Every cilantro I’ve tried to care for has died. They’re delicate af. Now if you want a hardy herb that will survive your utmost attempts to kill it, try rosemary.
Yeah, but I don’t use rosemary on a near constant basis – I do cilantro (at least I do when I have some in the house – grumble grumble covid grumble).
I bought a houseplant when I got my first apartment. It was just a little sprig with two clumps of leaves in a pot the size of a yogurt container. It’s been neglected, over-watered, left in pots too long, and re-potted at least thrice, but somehow it’s still alive.
(Just checked the tag, it’s a Luseane. Thing’s got three 4-foot-tall stalks and it’s getting root-bound in its 14″ pot.)
Now I have a yard, and pretty much the only plants I’ve got besides shrubs are various hostas. Those things are great. Bury them in driveway snow! Accidentally cut them down to the ground with the weed whacker! Trample them putting window ACs in! Split the clumps apart with a shovel to propagate them! Hosta don’t give a fuck, it just comes back. I want to put in some fire bushes and forsythia too. Speaking from experience, those things are hardy against winter, drought, neglect, and haphazard pruning.
Also oregano. I had some in my garden – it took over a five-foot section and wouldn’t die. We pulled it back twice to a smaller area; it came back stronger than ever. We dug it all up, every trace we could find. Apparently we missed some tiny pieces of root. It took fifteen years to finally get it all out so we could plant something else there.
I actually got a Venus’s Fly Trap a couple of years ago (Audrey!) bc I figured MAYBE I’m grown-up and attentive enough to figure out how to keep one alive, and to be fair it only took TWO YEARS before I forgot to water it for like four days in a row
it’s been a few months since then, but after trimming off the truly dead parts, it seems to be bouncing back? yay? only eighteen more expected years of life to go!
That is a lot of plants.
Condolences.
Does Maggie have a green thumb, or is her care where innocent flora are sent to perish?
Just get a cactus if you want a tough house plant.
I dunno, my aunt used to kill them regularly. Over-watered, maybe?
Maybe, as I don’t think you’re supposed to water them at all.