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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2015-10-21 10:32 am

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Nobody told me Japanese peace lilies were such drama queens!

Okay, so I almost killed the thing by forgetting to water it before I went home to be sick for most of a week--it only requires watering once a week or so. I got back to work yesterday and I was afraid it was dead because all the leaves were drooping. Well, "drooping" isn't the word for it. "Flatlined" is more the word for it--they were pretty much horizontal.

Terrified I'd killed it, I poured water into it twice yesterday, and when I got in this morning, it was all upright and perky and going HEY HOW YA DOIN' and basically looking like nothing had happened to it. I knew the leaves were supposed to droop when it got thirsty, but I wasn't expecting THAT MUCH.

Drama queen.

[identity profile] celandineb.livejournal.com 2015-10-21 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL - this was a great piece of writing. I could just SEE the poor plant. (Although I grant you my mental image was colored by memories of the Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors...)

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2015-10-21 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
XD Thanks! It's all happy now and attempting to molest anyone who walks through my door (I'm using it to partially bloock the window there).