Learn more about plants

My dad knows a lot about plants, and most everything else. :P

to allow myself to finally believe/accept that my orchid would not make it.

I guess I do want to ‘save’ things. To make things ‘o.k.’

Because the actions needed to deal with the plant evoked an awful lot of emotion. Telling myself it is ‘just a plant’ was not enough.

It was alive. And it died. Slowly.

It was growing. And dying. At the same time.

It applies to the life of anything. A plant. A pet. A relationship. Self.

There was still a flower that looked as healthy as anything, while other signs indicated that all was not o.k.

And instead of ‘running’ I closely examined the roots. They told the story.

I want to better see the roots of all that has life.
I guess a plant can be quite a reminder of all that matters.

I hope I didn’t learn too late that it is better to under-water, rather than over-water an orchid.

I hope mine survives!

while my orchid is still doing well.

I really don’t know a thing about orchids, and they don’t seem like a plant where it would be safe to know nothing about!

about the plants I own, or any others!

Somehow I’ve been lucky and never killed a plant, though.

I don’t even know the names of my plants. I just transplanted one of them… I hope it survives. I think I might tackle one of the other ones.

I’m sure I’m supposed to read up on the proper way to do this first… but I wouldn’t know where to start!

because I know so little.