Bellana has a plant that she named Burt. It grew from a clipping taken from her step mother’s mother’s plant. During the pandemic lockdown Burt ended up at our house for a short time. Bellana cut off a clipping and Jen and I grew a new plant with it. We named it Bertha.
Bertha was a frequent source of blog posts for a while, but I haven’t been sharing any updates lately. She’s still alive and kicking, but she’s definitely having a rough go these days. A bunch of her leaves have died, while new ones are still sprouting. If I keep her watered she does okay, but she’s so big now that we don’t really have any place to put her and I fear she’s close to the live/die tipping point.
With the goal of keeping some form of the original plant alive forever, I took two new clippings this morning. They are in Harry’s room in a glass of water sitting next to the window. Unfortunately the weather is so gloomy and awful there isn’t a lot of sunlight to be found. It should get better over the weekend. Here’s hoping the two clippings grow some new roots and I can pot them both and have two more chances of keeping the original plant alive for all time.
Wish Bertha’s kids luck.
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I can’t ever keep a plant alive.
I had an air plant snd I kept it alive for years. It never got any bigger but it staywd soft and kept its bright color and never needed water- as advertised. It stayed beautiful with no real effort on my part. I was proud of that plant.
One day it was gone. I asked my hubby if it had finally died. He laughed. It was nothing but a fake plastic plant. I really thought it was a real plant. I was so disappointed- and embarrassed.
Turns out I still can’t keep a plant alive.
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