Hello, everyone. My name is Hannah, and on a recent trip to Epcot with my family I fell in love with a little black pine named Phil, took him home, and immediately began leading the invasion of plants to just about every window in our house.
I developed a love of the Lowe's discount shelf, since I love both a challenge and a good deal, and I've found lots of other plants that are just as interesting as (and faster growing than) my bonsai. Since most of my favorites are outside, and therefore dormant for the season, I've been cultivating a healthy (read: obsessive) indoor collection. I keep finding that out-of-bloom orchids can be found for dirt-cheap prices, and I'm more than willing (and young and bullheaded enough) to take on the unique challenge that a neglected orchid brings. Also, I keep finding that almost all of my plant's problems stem from something wrong with the root system. Texas Ebony- fungus gnat infestation in the roots. Ponytail Palm- my cousin "accidentally" pulled the roots off. Pineapple- rocks glued to the top of the soil. Orchid- I don't even know, but there's a bunch of black squishy stuff hanging off of a hard stringy thing so I'm guessing root rot.
But even though almost all of my plants have some sort of terrible tragedy they're recovering from, there is nothing more gratifying than that first tiny leaf spike after months of careful watering and prayers that they'll pull through. And even though at this point, due to my inexperience, for every 1 plant I save there's usually another I don't, I still go straight back to the clearance rack to try again, since one day I hope to be good enough to bring that mortality rate down to zero.
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