do you remember my orange trumpet vine?
I went to check on it today, and it was gone! completely, totally, vanished and not there.
it's really silly, but I was devastated. and I was too embarassed to ask my dad about it, because I'm sure he thinks it was just some dead stick and it's very likely that he pulled it up.
my orange trumpet vine was a little seedling that I grew into a reasonably good sized vine that I liked very much. when I was in law school, when I had my beautiful apartment with hardwood floors throughout and a wall-wide south-facing window on a golf course, I had quite the indoor garden. my orange trumpet vine was one of my most beautiful plants.
when I left my apartment for what was supposed to be a long weekend for the cardiac evaluation before my heart surgery (which was almost 18 months ago. wow.), I ended up being away for about 10 days instead, and the plants in my window just baked.
I repotted, replanted, and composted, but this trumpet vine didn't react like the other plants. it retreated to the stump, and I watered it and gave it light and heat for a year and it didn't do anything. not even die.
finally, when it got warm enough, I planted it out in the great big outdoors, and sure enough, it started sprouting a new vine!
and I went to look at it today, but all that was there was tore up earth.
I really feel entirely silly that this has me so sad.
it's a stupid plant.
I went to check on it today, and it was gone! completely, totally, vanished and not there.
it's really silly, but I was devastated. and I was too embarassed to ask my dad about it, because I'm sure he thinks it was just some dead stick and it's very likely that he pulled it up.
my orange trumpet vine was a little seedling that I grew into a reasonably good sized vine that I liked very much. when I was in law school, when I had my beautiful apartment with hardwood floors throughout and a wall-wide south-facing window on a golf course, I had quite the indoor garden. my orange trumpet vine was one of my most beautiful plants.
when I left my apartment for what was supposed to be a long weekend for the cardiac evaluation before my heart surgery (which was almost 18 months ago. wow.), I ended up being away for about 10 days instead, and the plants in my window just baked.
I repotted, replanted, and composted, but this trumpet vine didn't react like the other plants. it retreated to the stump, and I watered it and gave it light and heat for a year and it didn't do anything. not even die.
finally, when it got warm enough, I planted it out in the great big outdoors, and sure enough, it started sprouting a new vine!
and I went to look at it today, but all that was there was tore up earth.
I really feel entirely silly that this has me so sad.
it's a stupid plant.
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