A couple of weeks ago, I bought a nice Maiden Hair fern to sit on my desk at work. The idea being that it would spruce up the rather spartan, dead environment I spend all day in, thereby cheering me up a little. For two weeks it's sat on the shelf above my desk looking all green and healthy, I've had to water it alot due to the dry air-conditioned atmosphere, and I've stood it on a bed of pebbles in a dish of water to keep the air around it moist (a tip I picked up off the internet). With the AC off over the weekend, it was able to survive adequately till Monday morning, especially as I'd give it a good soak before I left on Friday.
But.
Last Friday I forgot to water it before I left.
And I was in Adelaide on Monday, not the office.
By Tuesday, my fern looked like it was barely making it through an extended drought. About 75% of the lush foliage is now crispy and dead.
So much for making me feel better, now I feel worse, my poor little fern.
I think I need to reconsider my choice in plants for the office.
Wednesday, 8 August 2007
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3 comments:
Maidenhair ferns are notoriously fussy. You need a hardy indoor plant, not a fern of any description, see what's growing in your foyer maybe?
The only thing growing in our foyer is an odd modern "art" sculpture thing. That and a funky smell coming up from the car park level...
we grow pensioners in ours a lot. They take root if you dont get them out fast enough.
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