tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207856767845378292.post7828455270626138396..comments2023-05-01T07:50:55.593-07:00Comments on My Life Among the Lithops (and Other Strange Plants): Pensive Tuesday: Beauty Versus HealthAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12888328097434089820noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207856767845378292.post-22438835571277664392013-02-26T09:55:15.716-08:002013-02-26T09:55:15.716-08:00Hi, Gail!
Disposable gardening is indeed dreadful....Hi, Gail!<br />Disposable gardening is indeed dreadful. It means no respect for the life under your care; that life is there only for a person's pleasure, to be discarded when that person gets bored. So a very unwholesome attitude to life is being encouraged by "disposable gardening". I'm glad your phals are doing well! I was gifted with a disposable phal and tried to keep it going, but it was too ill from rot and scale to grow anymore. So I'm sticking with succulents!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12888328097434089820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207856767845378292.post-70199841042372926302013-02-26T07:44:37.494-08:002013-02-26T07:44:37.494-08:00Hi Marla. I really have no imagination when it co...Hi Marla. I really have no imagination when it comes to gardening in pots. This book looks great. Thank you for the suggestion.<br /><br />The idea of "disposable gardening" is repellent to me. I have always believed that plants have their own peculiar kind of sentience. Just throwing them out almost seems like murder. <br /><br />I was quite sick a couple of years ago and received many of the so called "disposable" phalaenopsis as get well gifts. These plants were, for the most part, potted incorrectly and obviously were meant to be discarded after they bloomed. I have kept them all in the house in the winter and outdoors in the summer. Some dropped leave but re-grew them. A few have bloomed over and over again. People keep giving me these plants and I am running out of space in my house during the winter months. I would"regift" them if they would only bloom when I needed them too! No one seems to want a phal without flowers. Azarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08011756547431804355noreply@blogger.com