As I have admitted before, I am the ultimate plant terminator. Yes. No matter how much I love flowers and plants, 90% of the times I cannot help them survive. I don't know how much water they need, I cannot figure out the right place for them, so I end up killing them and I'm not happy nor proud about it.
However a miracle did happen. I have kept an almost dead orchid cause probably I could sense some life in it. It was not in good condition but I didn't give up. I was watering it and also talking to it -cause they say that plants may "listen" to us. And it seems that my love and persistence for this orchid actually flourished... It is now ready to blossom and I am more than happy!
This incident made me more optimistic and I thought that the executing-everything-green-thing might be over. Maybe now I can really grow a plant on my own! So I brought two new members in the family.
In the beginning everything seemed to be going fine. There were no signs of withering whatsoever. I was a proud plant-mama and I loved how the living-room was transformed by their beauty. This happy atmosphere didn't last long though...
I noticed one ant here, another one there -sorry God and ant lovers but I did kill them immediately- and then I found more of them -and also killed them. Long story short, I spent one week with a wet napkin on my hand killing ants. There were so many and I thought that this hell would never end -I have a dog and I cannot spray into the house.
So I decided to stalk them in order to figure out where they're going and where they're coming from. SADLY I realised that both the new members of my plant family betrayed me. They brought those tiny intruders into my house. You cannot imagine my frustration. I had to get my babies out to save my house and more specifically to defend and protect my food storage drawers.
Now they are grounded at the balcony and my living-room is less beautiful but I had to keep my sanity and get rid of the bloody ants!
Who knows, maybe I'm doomed to live without plants... Or with fake ones...
