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lovely-fatima.livejournal.com) wrote in dgray_man2008-11-05 08:50 pm
You know you're obsessed when...
So, this past August, I inherited a struggling, droopy aloe plant. After repotting the poor thing and giving her some much needed love, she perked right up and began looking rather beautiful. As I like to name my plants and talk to them, I decided to name her...Miranda.
Then, my school had their annual Cultural Festival just a couple weeks ago. Since ours is a commercial/business high-school, our ni-nensei homerooms each sponsor and run a "challenge shop". This year, one of the homerooms sold plants, and being the sucker ALT that I am, I ended up buying three of them--a pretty little mini-rose, a stunning poinsettia, and a small, but mighty philodendron. Of course, all three needed to be potted, so I went out and got pots and soil, etc.
Well, in the course of a few days, my stunning poinsettia began to lose its leaves, struggle and die...but, it still decided to hang on--while still looking stunning. Which, of course, prompted me to name it...Cross.
As I was potting the miniature rose, the lower legs kept prickling at me...so I called her...Lenalee.
And, in spite of being small when I purchased him, my little philodendron just decided to strike out on his own, stretch his legs, and begin to "walk" along the tray I had him in. This, of course, earned him the name of...Allen.
It's dark in my room at night, but here's a bad cell-phone picture of "Cross" and "Allen"and Cross' little bastard child:
Then, my school had their annual Cultural Festival just a couple weeks ago. Since ours is a commercial/business high-school, our ni-nensei homerooms each sponsor and run a "challenge shop". This year, one of the homerooms sold plants, and being the sucker ALT that I am, I ended up buying three of them--a pretty little mini-rose, a stunning poinsettia, and a small, but mighty philodendron. Of course, all three needed to be potted, so I went out and got pots and soil, etc.
Well, in the course of a few days, my stunning poinsettia began to lose its leaves, struggle and die...but, it still decided to hang on--while still looking stunning. Which, of course, prompted me to name it...Cross.
As I was potting the miniature rose, the lower legs kept prickling at me...so I called her...Lenalee.
And, in spite of being small when I purchased him, my little philodendron just decided to strike out on his own, stretch his legs, and begin to "walk" along the tray I had him in. This, of course, earned him the name of...Allen.
It's dark in my room at night, but here's a bad cell-phone picture of "Cross" and "Allen"
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Miranda means admired. Miranda is german.
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Nice naming skills. :D
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