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I’m the kind of person who can’t tell the difference between poison ivy and a rosebush – I used to think that watermelons grew on trees and that cauliflower were actually a kind of flower! A lot of this ignorance stemmed from the fact I grew up in a cramped city apartment and spent more than thirty years of my life with only the sounds of traffic to wake up to and the occasional prospect of a visit to a distant sad little park which boasted any greenery to speak of.
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But after I moved into the suburbs and into my own house, I started taking an interest in “the garden” (a patch of sandy stretch alongside an overgrown lawn). After getting down on my knees, grunting, digging holes and ruining my pants in planting some store-bought lush green things into my newly acquired paradise patch, I watched them all die (despite generously daily doses of water) just a week later. Don’t ask me what went wrong – maybe the plants weren’t the right variety (I just picked the ones that looked prettiest!) or the soil was wrong or they were over-watered or I’m just cursed with the opposite of a green thumb!
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Anyway I’ve retired from my hobby as a plant-killer until I can save enough money for a proper landscaping job and a gardener who will hopefully teach me the tricks of the trade. I bought a few “how to” gardening books and I’ll brush on them before spring to start filling up the vacuum of all those years of flora ignorance.
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Meanwhile I’ve not given up on growing plants altogether – I went to the gardening store and bought myself the hardiest prickliest looking cactus I could find. I’ve named it Wayne because its stark profile somehow reminds me of a tough cowboy.
It’s taken pride of place on my mantle-piece and if I can resist the temptation to drown it in overdoses of water, it’ll get through the winter as my first pet plant that lived to tell the tale.
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Oct 16, 2007 2:01:33 PM
Good luck with your plant, er pet. How's it going?
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Oct 10, 2007 2:17:57 PM
Thank you for posting on my story.
Actually, I do have kids, and my son's middle name just happens to be Wayne, after the actor, John Wayne. I know what you mean about messes though.
At least you didn't let this incident ruin " Your green Thumb."
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