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It's been a rough week and a long day at work and very strange to wake up to news of Abe Shinzo's assassination. In the interest of posting something calming and happy, here is more Friday Flora.
For good or ill, more people in my neighborhood buy plants than can take care of them. Which, it is a learning process, and luckily at least some of those people put the plants out for adoption instead of immediately dumpstering them. And because I have a bleeding plant heart and like a challenge, I am happy to pick them up.
I posted a few months ago about the abandoned diffenbachia that was clinging to life as four stems. I'm happy to report that six-plus months of TLC have paid off and it is starting to grow new leaves.
As is the monstera I adopted the night of the lunar eclipse, which has sprouted half a dozen new leaves that are starting to develop the characteristic swiss cheese holes.
I really love the glossy green of these new leaves. The appearance of holes in them is especially gratifying, because nobody really knows what mechanism triggers the plant to start producing them (the one in my bedroom, for instance, has led a pampered life since I brought it home healthy from the store, and has produced no holes whatsoever).
I noticed someone lugging two suspiciously distressed-plant-shaped tubs to the recycling chute the last week of June as I was heading out to run a day full of errands. If they are indeed plants and still there when I get back, I thought, I will see what I can do.
They were and were, and I did. They are still in bad shape, but regenerating fast enough that I hope to get rid of the dead growth (which is currently helping to maintain the ideal level of soil moisture) soon.
Finally, I found this guy on my walk home from the grocery store last Saturday.
She seems to have been abandoned during a move rather than because she's ailing and seems to be adapting quite well to the conditions here.
これで以上です。
For good or ill, more people in my neighborhood buy plants than can take care of them. Which, it is a learning process, and luckily at least some of those people put the plants out for adoption instead of immediately dumpstering them. And because I have a bleeding plant heart and like a challenge, I am happy to pick them up.
I posted a few months ago about the abandoned diffenbachia that was clinging to life as four stems. I'm happy to report that six-plus months of TLC have paid off and it is starting to grow new leaves.
As is the monstera I adopted the night of the lunar eclipse, which has sprouted half a dozen new leaves that are starting to develop the characteristic swiss cheese holes.
I really love the glossy green of these new leaves. The appearance of holes in them is especially gratifying, because nobody really knows what mechanism triggers the plant to start producing them (the one in my bedroom, for instance, has led a pampered life since I brought it home healthy from the store, and has produced no holes whatsoever).
I noticed someone lugging two suspiciously distressed-plant-shaped tubs to the recycling chute the last week of June as I was heading out to run a day full of errands. If they are indeed plants and still there when I get back, I thought, I will see what I can do.
They were and were, and I did. They are still in bad shape, but regenerating fast enough that I hope to get rid of the dead growth (which is currently helping to maintain the ideal level of soil moisture) soon.
Finally, I found this guy on my walk home from the grocery store last Saturday.
She seems to have been abandoned during a move rather than because she's ailing and seems to be adapting quite well to the conditions here.
これで以上です。