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Proud plant mom

This article was published on March 27, 2019 and may be out of date. To maintain our historical record, The Cascade does not update or remove outdated articles.
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This year, since I’ll have my own garden for the first time ever, I decided to buy a few seeds to see what I could grow. I drove myself over to the garden centre, made friends with the resident cats, and picked out a few different types of flowers that’ll enjoy lots of sun and probably won’t be eaten by my dogs. Well, a few turned into 12 including a black pansie-like thing called nemophila I unfortunately keep calling necrophilia and two full plants (a rubber plant named Rudy and a maidenhair fern named Francesca).

I’ve always been told gardening is a hobby of patience, but it’s been less than a week since I planted the seeds and a few are already poking through the dirt! The black-eyed Susans are still tiny, but the lupins have already shot up a centimetre, Rudy has new shoots, and Francesca has unfurled another three or so inches in every direction. I am a proud plant mom, and I can’t wait to stick these boys in the garden and watch them bloom.

Image: Satinder Dhillon/The Cascade

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