Elemental Grace

Growing Pains

October 24, 2009

Recently, I have taken some time out to rekindle my green fingers, after a nasty confidence-bashing experience with my  windowsill herb garden and a lot of aphids. I found a little rose plant on its last legs in Ikea in March of this year. It was in a sorry state with no flowers, curled up  dying leaves and the branches looked to be dying off. I just couldn’t resist taking him home with me in the hopes that with a little bit of TLC, it would come back to life.

I cut him right back to the stems and left him to grow back. For months, though I watered and fed him regularly, nothing much seemed to be happening. I was beginning to get quite demoralised, and thought perhaps I had bitten off more than I could chew, but I kept watering it because it didn’t look dead yet. Last week it surprised me with a whole load of new shoots and looks like there’s hope for it yet. Now all I have to wait for is some flowers. Hopefully that won’t be too much to ask for!

Saturday is market day in Wells, and as I walked down from the market towards work, I found the local florist selling capscium plants, so I decided to pick one up. This one had a lot of lovely bright red fruit on it and looked absolutely perfect. So, hopefully it will mark the beginning of a new green-fingered windowsill garden.

Toodle pip.

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