Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for July 19, 2013

The hanging one reminds me a bit of Little Shop of Horrors

Go with food, it’s here today, gone in half an hour or so…Plants, you have take care of for a very long time…

No guarantee that Aunt Betty has a green thumb! Both my mother and my mother-in-law are talented gardeners, while both my husband and I can kill PLASTIC plants!

Can you imagine plants that talk??? You’d think this was a comic strip!

hmmm. the hanging one looks like a newer incarnation of Robert the Plant.

I don’t know how those plants survive with a cat in the house. Mine dig in the dirt or chew on the leaves or knock it over so I gave up on houseplants a long time ago.

Rose will probably go to a store to buy a plant or some other present.

Ha!!!!

My hubby and I both said we had Black Thumbs, not green ones.

I feel so sorry for a lot of Poinsettias right after Christmas – many people don’t water theirs. I’ve told employees of several restaurants that their Poinsettias need watering. (Also the grocery I frequent stopped watering its live herbs, f’gosh sakes!)

My cat just killed another houseplant, a dracena, snapped in half, and a palm is on the way out. This is after years of leaving the plants alone.

My house plants would be volunteering…“Pick me! I want to liiiiiiive!!!!”

I love my house plants, many of them are 10+ years old and last time I moved (in Dec.) I thought a bunch of them died thanks to the cold and shock (they were in the cab of the moving van with me but I couldn’t carry them all in to the hotels over night) but then 3 or 4 months later (dry soil, in the dark, pots waiting for spring so I could new guys going) 2 or 3 of them ended up being ALIVE! So I’d love that kind of gift, but my hubby would’t….. .p.s. best way to protect plants from kitty is to put hot sauce on the stems/leaves and make sure you have cat nip, grass, or other roughtage for kitty that IS allowed.

My wife starts them and then most die. I ask why she keeps doing it and she says, “Just to remind you of what I am capable of.” I go to my den quietly.