Katie Bockelman gave me a palm tree two years ago. She had to put a few more desks in her classroom and didn’t have room for it anymore. I figured that, if nothing else, it would help keep another plant alive. You see, at the start of each school year I buy about three new plants, and by the end of the school year two of them are dead. Maybe with four plants I could keep two of them alive?
Well guess what happened? A few days after school was out this year it bloomed. Nothing beautiful, but very interesting. It filled the room with an almost sickly sweet smell. It’s a good thing it didn’t have to compete with middle school smell.