A very minor revelation ... and ANNOYANCE 043

Until recently, I never stopped to consider why businesses who grow plants called those businesses "plant nurseries." After spending the last couple of months tending to my recently installed landscape, I now know. Those newbies are a bunch of whiney babies! Babies constantly demand more milk and for you to wipe their bottoms. Plants constantly demand more water and for you to weed their bottoms. You really do have to tend to them almost every day until they mature enough to make it on their own.

I feel like I have one natural child and one red-headed step-child. No offense to any of you red-heads or step-children, it's just something people say around here when they feel neglected. My front yard is apparently my natural child because I always keep a close eye on its needs. My side yard no doubt feels like a red-headed step-child who is often neglected in favor of its sibling. My neglect is not intentional, I am only guilty of succumbing to the "out of sight, out of mind" principle. I almost panicked when I remembered yesterday that the side yard had not been watered in over a week. When I rounded the corner, I was properly chagrined when I saw that my Sasanqua Camellia's leaves were starting to furl .... cringing from my neglect and being bullied by the sun. If it were a child, I would have been charged with neglect and abuse. I am so ashamed.  I pledge to do a better job, lest some Greek goddess of nature takes notice and thinks it necessary to dole out a smite, shoot me with an arrow or get Zeus to strike me down with a thunderbolt. I don't know what her method of penance would be, and I don't care to find out.


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