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Where Flowers Die

There’s a spot in my room where pretty things come to die.

On small cabinet that holds old CDs is where the plants live… and eventually die.

Dying Plant

Above the cabinet is a painting of a treacherous shore I once walked from Gibsons to Roberts Creek in the Sunshine Coast.

Fall Flower

Maybe the plants are dying from the transferred memory of that hike.

I switched to low maintenance plants – that doesn’t need to be watered regularly or direct sunlight.

I’ve tried cacti, it was African violets last year, and recently chrysanthemums.

Mums

I couldn’t resist their rich gorgeous colour.

Lavender

They replaced my dried up lavender plant, those lasted a few months through the summer.

The mums lasted for about a month and the half, it brightened up the space and cheered my heart

Mums

I tried to take good care of it. I did everything the little tag that came with it said to do.

I watered it, kept the soil moist and gave it light.

Dying Plant

But it couldn’t be helped, the leaves started turning, it slowly wilted and eventually died.

I like to think of them as passing on to a better place, flower paradise maybe.

Dying Plant

Seriously, I can’t be trusted with living things.

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