I am the Green Thumb of Death

My ambitions for an idyllic English country garden were halted somewhat the day I beheaded the begonias.

It happened during the transplanting, plop, plop, plob and off they fell.

The grass around the flower bed was strew with the colourful petals of the fallen begonias.

RIP Begonias.

RIP idyllic English Country garden

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5 Responses to “I am the Green Thumb of Death”

cube Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 1:29 pm

It sounds like me. I even killed one of those Resurrection plants that don’t require any care at all.

Queenie Says:
July 24th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

You got great advice from Rosita at the bottom of your column. I am pasting it into my big ‘Book of the Dead (Plants)’ for future reference.

Dick Says:
July 27th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

Keep at it. Eventually you will have a full complement of hardy perennials.
It’s like house plants, we keep killing them until all we have left are spider plants, aloe vera, and a few cacti.

gifted typist Says:
July 27th, 2009 at 8:55 pm

Cube, eeks!

Queenie, yes she had some great advice and I shall follow

Dick, not big on house plants because I usually kill them

thenewcomer Says:
July 29th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

“Green Thumb of Death”- sounds like an Midsomer Murder series!

But I have one too. I got a couple of lovely houseplants including a beautiful orchid as presents for a party a month ago, (I don’t dare buy any myself) and they are all dying on me. So sad.

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