It started out as a little plant in a 4" pot that I bought in Woolworths about 22 years ago. Careful inattentiveness and routine has brought where it is today. In the spring I sit it out on our covered porch, I sit it in the shower when it starts looking withered, and I bring it into the house before the first frost. I water it for the last time in August, and when the first buds appear, I throw some plant food in, and sit it in the shower. This year, she is just loaded with flowers. I worry when it loses a branch, but I think that for the most part, it probably should after so many years.
Weird how this plant has become a part of the family. I remember buying it. The Woolworths was a walk in store in a strip by a large mall. My kids were little. My youngest daughters were only about 3, and my mother-in-law and myself and kids were Christmas shopping, and I bought this plant.. who knew that it would still be around this many years later.
I hope that you all are having a great week. The weather has been pretty decent here considering Thanksgiving is next week. I need to get busy on some Christmas gifts. I wonder every year how I let the holiday sneak up on me, looks like it has again.
Happy stitching!
Teri
4 comments:
I had a Christmas Cactus like that. Same story.....it started life in a four inch pot. Then I re-potted it with another 4 incher. It was absolutely gorgeous when it bloomed in the winter. Unfortunately, I had to leave it behind when I moved back to California from Maryland. But it lives on happily in a friend's home. She gives me seasonal updates.
I've bought a small Christmas Cactus out here in CA but I don't seem to have the right sunny window that I had in MD. But it hasn't died.
I have a plant that is a member of the family. It's a Dracena (something like that), I've had it over 20 years. I have killed every other green thing in the house, somehow this one has survived my black thumb. It even survived a month here in the desert when we were gone.
I have a plant exactly the same as this. My mother-in-law gave me this and she got from her mother. SO easy to grow and so beautiful.
I have a plant exactly the same as this and I got it from my mother-in-law and she got it from her mother.......... Amazing plant, so easy to grow and so beautiful.
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