Be Careful! If you remember this movie in the header, you'll reveal your age!!!
As I told BS many, many times, plants are like people in that they want to live and will do almost anything to survive! Most times all you have to do is provide them a comfortable environment and they'll do the rest.
As I told BS many, many times, plants are like people in that they want to live and will do almost anything to survive! Most times all you have to do is provide them a comfortable environment and they'll do the rest.
Sometimes, as with the plant below, they will go to extremes to live!
Most of you are too young to remember when mama used to have to wash clothes outdoors in a washpot (but I'm not). Monday's were always wash days for our grandparents. .the older children of the family would get water from a well or creek and firewood from the woods. When they got all their 'supplies' together, they built a fire under the pot! Meanwhile, mama was segregating the clothes; whites and colors. Since there were no synthetic fibers at that time, they didn't have to segregate for water temperature; all got washed in HOT water.
When the water was boiling, using lye soap, mama would immerse the clothes and use a stick to 'agitate' the clothes. For the life of me, I don't remember how they rinsed the clothes, but I do remember them hanging on a clothes line to dry! And you talk about STIFF!!!! Drying with a towel washed and dried in this manner was like drying off with a steel wool pad!!! Absolutely nothing like drying off with a towel that has been finished with Downy!
I'm telling you all that to tell you this . . .the pot the little begonia made her home is the same washpot hubby's mother used to wash his clothes!!! Hubby, being the oldest child in his family, was 'elected' to draw the water, gather the firewood, and start the fire! Do I see 'child abuse and child endangerment' here??!!! My, my! How opinions and outlooks have changed! But I'll tell you one thing; This abuse and endangerment molded hubby into a man that's never afraid of that four-letter word - WORK!
He got the pot after his mother passed. It had a big crack down the side (visible in the photo), but hubby wired it together. That was at least 20 years ago and the wiring is still holding! I cleaned off the rust and sprayed it with black enamel paint and it has served as a focal point in my outdoors sitting area since. It has many very special meanings to me!
Last year I had begonias in the pot and I'm assuming a little seed found her way into the crack and made herself a home and a comfortable place to live!
Ahem . .. as soon as I'm finished with spring cleaning my outdoor living room, I'll post and add photos on the entire area.
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