Green fingers

I've never been good at keeping flowers alive. At some point, really quickly, I lose interest and simply forget to water them. This usually kills whatever flower I have and then it gets an unceremonious funeral by simply dumping it in the trash. I think the only plants I've ever successfully kept alive for a long period of time were cacti.

Honestly I don't really care that much about flowers. I mean, they do look lovely and do make it more homey. Still potted plants or flowers have never been my thing, there is simply too much work in keeping them alive and I don't have some strapping young lad watering my plants and doing my laundry for me. So I've avoided them, occasionally buying cut flowers for vases as that's really more my thing. The problem is, there is no flower shop around here that sells cut flowers, the closest thing is petrol stations and I'm not going down that route. They are always really bad.

Well my parents gave me this flower when I moved in here.



My mother says she bought it for me because it was easy to keep alive, and still maintains that it wasn't because it smells like cat pee. I decided against febreezing it, laminating it and whatever other suggestions you had for me. In the end the flowers fell off and it stopped smelling.

So the other day I was going to water it for the first time in probably 4 weeks and I noticed it has changed. Not in the about to die kind of way, no no, I asked at a flower shop down the street. It's in the feeling so good that it wants to be even bigger and more beautiful that it already is.

I am in shock to be honest, because I've been nothing but unkind to it thinking I'd probably dump in the bin bag in a couple of weeks. This is how it looks now.



I still have no idea what kind of flower it is but it seems to work for me. I just wish it wouldn't smell so bad when it's in full bloom.