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Another week in which work eclipsed everything I'd been intending to do with my free time, including leaving on schedule today. DX To facilitate transitioning from that whirlwind into a hopefully relaxing weekend, let's do a Friday Flora.
The first of the month was bitterly cold--seasonably so, just not for this year, which has seen weeks of t-shirt weather and less than half an inch of snow since November.
That less than half an inch all fell late the evening of the 31st and was gone by ten the next morning. I was taking an evening walk right as the cold front was moving in and happened to notice a large, glossy leaved ZZ plant stalk lying lightly dusted with snow on the treelawn in front of a U-Haul. My guess is it had fallen or gotten knocked off of someone's mature plant as they were moving in to a new apartment.
If it's still there when I'm done walking, I thought, I'll take it inside and try to save it.
Well, it was, and I did.
I was worried that the sudden transition from freezing to habitable temperatures would give it temperature shock, but it seemed to be doing okay when I got back from work the next afternoon.
In fact, only one of its leaves fell off, so I took my biggest glass vase, found a new home for the dried lavender that had been occupying it, washed it out, lopped the bottom of the ZZ stalk off, and plopped it in. It's still far too early to say whether it will successfully root or if I've only postponed the inevitable, but baby steps. ZZ plants are notoriously slow growers: the previous one I rooted, from a cutting 1/17th the size, has only recently developed a rhizome, three years later.
これで以上です。
The first of the month was bitterly cold--seasonably so, just not for this year, which has seen weeks of t-shirt weather and less than half an inch of snow since November.
That less than half an inch all fell late the evening of the 31st and was gone by ten the next morning. I was taking an evening walk right as the cold front was moving in and happened to notice a large, glossy leaved ZZ plant stalk lying lightly dusted with snow on the treelawn in front of a U-Haul. My guess is it had fallen or gotten knocked off of someone's mature plant as they were moving in to a new apartment.
If it's still there when I'm done walking, I thought, I'll take it inside and try to save it.
Well, it was, and I did.
I was worried that the sudden transition from freezing to habitable temperatures would give it temperature shock, but it seemed to be doing okay when I got back from work the next afternoon.
In fact, only one of its leaves fell off, so I took my biggest glass vase, found a new home for the dried lavender that had been occupying it, washed it out, lopped the bottom of the ZZ stalk off, and plopped it in. It's still far too early to say whether it will successfully root or if I've only postponed the inevitable, but baby steps. ZZ plants are notoriously slow growers: the previous one I rooted, from a cutting 1/17th the size, has only recently developed a rhizome, three years later.
これで以上です。