RKayne's Blog

Poinsettia.
Jan 17, 2008 | 1:01 PM PST
Tag: poinsettia

Our landlady brought us a huge, beautiful...overgrown and rootbound poinsettia right before Christmas.  So it sat, and I looked at it for a few days.  In my office building wholesale slaughter was occurring.  The plant people brought in tremendous amounts of poinsettias and placed them all up and down all the halls.  This is a 15 story building, mind you.  After they started suffering, they THREW THEM AWAY and placed NEW ones there.  They would not allow anyone to take the 'refuse' as they have to account for each and every one.  That killed me.  I thought about that as I looked at this beastie whom I have never had, nor tried to keep.  I am a sucker for things with leaves (ok...and fur...and claws...that go 'Meow') so I just couldn't do anything BUT decide to actually keep it.  I took it outside, I had a big square pot that was going to eventually be a banana pot but the banana has rather a bit of growing to do before it is ready for a pot this size anyways, haha.  Then I find out it has a 'cage' of sorts to keep it upright (are these even MEANT to be kept alive???) and to get it out of this there was going to be some loss.  Several of the branches did break off, but not too bad.  The roots?  There was NO way to break them up, it will take awhile but I hope it just 'gets over it'.  I cut a bit but that was all I could do.  Bring it in, it seemed happy, still does.  Our GOOD cat, purl, flipped for some reason one night and went racing across the room and FLEW through the air and broke another one off, haha, but it is ok even still! I have decided this plant will live.  We shall see :D  Otherwise, I got a nice big pot for something else ;)