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Lessons Learned From My Succulent 🌵

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In it's new home.


Like I had promised in my earlier post about the succulent gifted to me, I would give updates about how it fared in my home - especially how I had no experience in growing plants - so today I will keep my word after almost half a year. For starters "yay! it survived" 😁 and it has kept me company on my desk for five months. Whenever I needed to rest my eyes from the computer screen, I enjoyed looking at that little greenery and it has brought me peace and a euphoric feeling.


Before the repotting.

And like every organism, this plant also needed more room to further grow and develop. The past few weeks I saw the little succulents' roots getting too big for the small pot and the new leaves growing smaller than its predecessors, so I decided to repot it today and that process was an experience in itself. It didn't take more than a few minutes, but for me it was a good test of carefulness and patience. Careful and not rushing the repotting, because of it's delicate structure and now I will watch its development in a bigger pot.


Life moves on.

Another happy surprise was that my little succulent was multiplying, be it unplanned. I mentioned before that the leaves were getting smaller and were "dying out" - yes I know leaves die naturally, but the difference here was that the leaves weren't that old yet - so I picked the leaves that were about to die and threw them in another pot, to serve as compost for another plant. Then one day @rarej called me out to show me that those discarded leaves were growing and developing into their own.



This only goes to show the power of nature and that even discarded life has a chance of becoming something bigger or better. We could learn a lot from our surroundings. What did you take away from my story? 🤓


Chasse into the backstage! 💃


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