Office Plant
This is what happens when you go on leave for three weeks and leave your office plant in the care of the other co-workers.
To be fair, it was noticed and watered last Thur. - too late methinks.
View all photos taken: Monday, 8th January 2007, This photo: 12:50pm
You keep you pot plants in coffee cups? Does that make them "cup plants"?
ohhh, crispy indeed! maybe it's now just dormant??
That's how it came Mike, I inherited it from one of the sales guys who left.
He was going to leave it in the middle of the office but his other half said "give it to Dave, at least it'll get watered". And it did.... until I went on leave.
Besides, it's a mug not a cup ;-)
Maybe Melissa... one can hope... There are a couple of little buds at the top, so with any luck it might come back.
tis a sad case, a very sad state of affairs, there is probably some body to whom such cruelty and neglect can be reported to, the society for prevention of cruelty to plants !
It is rather crispy I agree, if its got any sense it will give up and die !
you will have to take it with you next time - if it lives !!
Hmmm...that begs the question: how do you define the difference between a mug & a cup? Is there a clear distinction?
Yes I think it's chances are slim Helen. However you're right, next time it comes home over the holidays.
Ah that's easy Mike, a mug is made of ceramic and has a handle, whereas a cup is made from just about anything else and doesn't have a handle. There are cases where a cup might have a handle but isn't made of ceramic, and cases where a cup might be made of ceramic, but doesn't have a handle.
A tankard, on the other hand is a sub-species of mug. ;-)
Hmmm....well, I have an English fine bone china tea cup (that I'm pretty sure is a cup) but, by your definition, must be a mug as it has a handle and is bone china (ie. porcelain and therefore ceramic).
Hmmm, ok, I'll revise the definition to exclude tea-cups ;-)
But then tea cups aren't mug shaped either.
So maybe a mug is a ceramic handled drinking vessel with straight (usually vertical) sides with a volume exceeding 250ml.
That should allow for ceramic tea and coffee cups (like those expresso cups) that are also made of ceramic but are usually ornate (or at least curved) and hold less than 250ml. (I'm beginning to pity Sir Samuel Johnson)
give the poor thing a plant pot it can call home, that is if it recovers ...
You mean, put a pot plant in an actual pot ???
Ah, but should it be a plastic pot or ceramic? and should it have vertical sides or tapered? should it have a volume greater than or less than 1L? or 2L? and the all important question: should it have a handle or not?
hahaha :P
then of course what colour should this pot be, should it be plain or patterned, the choices the choices...
Poor thing...it died of thirst and now it's too crispy. Nothing left to do but turn it into fertilizer...maybe.
And it's showing no signs of recovery yet I'm afraid, but then it's only been 3 days....
Poor plant.. we arnt allowed plants in our office becuause of the insecticide on the plants supplied by the company.. or so thats what they told us. Anyway, I love the sky in the background
How odd (about the insecticides). I inherited this plant from one of the sales guys in the office when he left. He'd grown it from seed, so it was kinda sad to see it in such a crispy state. However, I've noticed two new shoots in the "pot" which might I guess be the same plant reshooting from roots. Time will tell.
Or they could be alfalfa sprouts. In the first flat my wife & I lived in when we got married I was eating watermelon on our little balony spitting the seeds wherever (mostly off the balcony into the garden below) and a few of them fell in the pots Ainsley was using to grow poppies on our balcony. A couple weeks later she noticed some new odd looking sprouts (watermelon, not poppies)... It was a good thing we were newly-weds and she was still madly in love with me. ;-)
hehehe But at least you could have had fresh watermelon at some stage (admittedly it'd take over the entire garden and probably most of the yard too).
As for alfalfa, I don't think so. I've not eaten any in a loooonnng time and I can't imagine where such seeds would come from in this office.