Brother and I refused a plant brought over by our new neighbor. She’d wanted to thank us for watching over her place. We explained we both had black thumbs. She understood.
True story: once we decided to buy a fake fern for the house. We knew we were no good with live plants but liked the look. Went to a store in their fake plant section(they also sold live), picked out a nice one and took it home. After about a week, we noticed it looked different. Then the fronds started to turn brown. That’s when we realized we had somehow picked up a live fern. Needless to say, it did not make it.
I don’t want anything I have to keep alive unless it can TELL me to feed it! I did get a plant from a neighbor friend that I’ve managed to keep alive (Primrose) but it kind of manages well on it’s own, when I change the cat’s water it gets some.
A clumpy low growing plant with nickel shaped petals and several dandelion like flowers shows up every March, but unhappily it fades in early April. Neighbors call it invasive and eradicate it when it shows.
I call it a really bright and visual treat and I wouldn’t mind if it took over the whole yard – it’s only a quarter of the way there now – and bloomed all summer. Lots of bees and other insects. A great addition to a yard with soil that seems indifferent to every other kind of seed, plant, fertilizer, treatment in existence.
Also have volunteer eupatorium, a great pollinator, with dozens of insects on every fluffy spread.
[Competing lawn care companies have been known to conference over ways to get me to sign on. First one gets free beer : ) ]
my wife was like that with her car when we first moved in together- I was driving her car and it was making ugly noises “How long has it sounded like that?”
That’s me when I try to grow parsley & I’ve killed other delicate herbs like cilantro. If cilantro had a Post Office my picture would be hanging in it.
My wife used to kill house plants by “benign negelect”. Now she has mastered the the art of growing houseplants. Too bad those plants can’t sprout legs and fend for themselves.
AllishaDawn 7 months ago
Mine would grow away from the sun light.
rekam Premium Member 7 months ago
Brother and I refused a plant brought over by our new neighbor. She’d wanted to thank us for watching over her place. We explained we both had black thumbs. She understood.
Enter.Name.Here 7 months ago
“Ummmm, when was the last time you fed the dog?”
I’ll stop there. Use your imagination. ;-)
hariseldon59 7 months ago
It’s a stick now.
BigDaveGlass 7 months ago
You just had to leaf it alone for far too long…….
BigBoy 7 months ago
This is easily avoided with Arboritus Plasticus
Gent 7 months ago
What this a cave plant in pot?
cdward 7 months ago
True story: once we decided to buy a fake fern for the house. We knew we were no good with live plants but liked the look. Went to a store in their fake plant section(they also sold live), picked out a nice one and took it home. After about a week, we noticed it looked different. Then the fronds started to turn brown. That’s when we realized we had somehow picked up a live fern. Needless to say, it did not make it.
kaycstamper 7 months ago
I don’t want anything I have to keep alive unless it can TELL me to feed it! I did get a plant from a neighbor friend that I’ve managed to keep alive (Primrose) but it kind of manages well on it’s own, when I change the cat’s water it gets some.
chris_o42 7 months ago
One of my sisters can kill a plastic plant.
sandpiper 7 months ago
A clumpy low growing plant with nickel shaped petals and several dandelion like flowers shows up every March, but unhappily it fades in early April. Neighbors call it invasive and eradicate it when it shows.
I call it a really bright and visual treat and I wouldn’t mind if it took over the whole yard – it’s only a quarter of the way there now – and bloomed all summer. Lots of bees and other insects. A great addition to a yard with soil that seems indifferent to every other kind of seed, plant, fertilizer, treatment in existence.
Also have volunteer eupatorium, a great pollinator, with dozens of insects on every fluffy spread.
[Competing lawn care companies have been known to conference over ways to get me to sign on. First one gets free beer : ) ]
Wizard of Ahz-no relation 7 months ago
my wife was like that with her car when we first moved in together- I was driving her car and it was making ugly noises “How long has it sounded like that?”
“A while.”
“When did you last get the oil changed?”
“I don’t remember.”
Daltongang Premium Member 7 months ago
If the Fat Broad watered her plant every time she pounded a snake, that little tree would be a gigantic Redwood by now.
rockyridge1977 7 months ago
Probably died because of the dark……..cave!!!!!
Just-me 7 months ago
Sounds like my sister-in-law.
rshive 7 months ago
A baseless rumor, to be sure.
johnaapc 7 months ago
Paper? I thought they only had stone slabs to read?
Pointspread 7 months ago
That’s me when I try to grow parsley & I’ve killed other delicate herbs like cilantro. If cilantro had a Post Office my picture would be hanging in it.
ladykat 7 months ago
Yes, most plants enjoy occasional watering.
Angry Indeed Premium Member 7 months ago
My wife used to kill house plants by “benign negelect”. Now she has mastered the the art of growing houseplants. Too bad those plants can’t sprout legs and fend for themselves.
Chris 7 months ago
that answered that question… :}
Frer Squirrel 7 months ago
I guess that toilet could use a cleaning.
zeexenon 7 months ago
Had a pal at work who watered his cactus with his back-washed cold coffee. It survived his career.
kathleenhicks62 7 months ago
I know a person like that!
Purplelady Premium Member 7 months ago
I like how Grace (AKA Cute Chick) breaks the fourth wall and looks at us.
jpozenel 7 months ago
Years ago, my mother gave me a plastic hanging plant because she knew my record with actual plants.