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.
It’s a corn plant! Very hardy. They rarely bloom, so you’re lucky (even if it’s stinky).
Did you know that corn plants are poisonous?
Bloom under stress = propagate the species. The plant doesn’t know it’s not the last one, so it’s just trying to be sure its kind will continue. Maybe Brad can help it when he comes.
I bloom under stress. I’m bloomin’ like crazy some days.
I tend to just be bloomin crazy some days!
It’s not blooming because of stress. It’s blooming because it’s happy. Kitt’s right: they don’t often bloom. You’ve got skilz!
It’s probably happy because school’s out.
I think its happy to be rid of smelly middle schoolers. Those kids can be stinky.
Wow, I had to look twice to be sure I was on the right site. I thought this was Brad’s post. By the way, prove those blooms are real. I think someone is playing a dandy lyin’ trick on you.
Do you suppose these are the end of times? I mean there’s supposed to be confusioning things happening right? Well, not only have you pulled off a gardening miracle … I too, have not 1, but 7 plants that are flourishing!
Some folks have all the miracle gro green thumbs!
I thought Lloyd was looking sickly……
Does this mean you’ll have corn on the cob soon?
I’ve been trying to detassel it.