#You know the ones. Massive leafy things in huge pots.
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Going to have to go on a quest to identify the beggar children in the living room, also known as my mother's houseplants, so that they have a chance of receiving adequate care...
#The only two that are doing great are two big plants I can only really describe as 'office plants'.#You know the ones. Massive leafy things in huge pots.#They're almost as old as me and have survived some of the most diabolical overwatering from a third party I have ever heard of.#I don't know if I really need to ID those since they seem completely fine though I will anyway because knowledge is power.#My mother's cactus also seems... fine. Don't know what kind of cactus it is though.#It's just one cactus by itself growing straight up. Has silver quills that turn brown with age... I hope.#Then we have a long-suffering ficus that I just trimmed the brown leaves off of like an hour ago.#Then the worst offender is probably the most heinous ginseng bonsai(?) I've seen in my fucking life.#For years I tell her to shear the fucker and she is too scared to do so.#Tells me to do it... which I will but I want to make sure I know what it is first.#You can ask me 'oh but don't plants come with a little sign in the soil with their name?'#Yes! They do! Unfortunately my mother removed them.#Honestly that cactus is so resilient so I am sure it is alive...#It just spent the first 10 years of its life in inadequate soil and got watered via bathroom condensation.#It came in a set of three and the other two are long-dead but that cactus just didn't give a fuck apparently.#Sunlight? Adequate soil? Being watered and letting the water drain? Never heard of.#I asked after what soil it was in sometime after I got my Crassula ovata.#The concept of different plants needing different soil was quite the revelation to my mother.#Shit's crazy...#I was damn near howling when I asked ''DO YOU THINK MOZAMBIQUE AND NORWAY HAVE THE SAME SOIL?''#Mozambique is where mine is from but the point remains.#I used Norway as an example because I was making a case with like. Those big fir trees in cold climates versus a cactus in a warm climate.
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