The Optimist In Me

The optimist in me says that this very, very sad gardenia just needed a little TLC. She really does look beyond all hope and I told M. that anybody in their right mind would have just put her out of her misery.

But I didn’t have the heart to just discard her. Instead, I pulled her from the terracotta pot, added new soil, mixed in some blood meal for good measure and watered her with Maxi-Crop for acid loving plants.

I think she has a good shot at making it. I’m curious what I’ll see in a matter of ten days. It may take longer than that, two to three weeks? Who knows? I may just gain a reputation as a gardenia whisperer.

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