There are times we make big mistakes...like sitting plant some where 'out of the way' when you are getting ready for the holiday...and forgetting about it!
Well...I did that in November, with a spider plant that I had babied all summer and it had gone from tiny to a nice plant full of new baby life.
But when we were getting ready for Thanksgiving..and I know that Christmas was to follow, I set the spider plant on the back porch on a little stool. I had moved the kitty litter box out there to get out of the kitchen and so in a way the plant was now kind of hidden.
Most of the plants on the back porch are cactus or other succulents so they don't get lots of winter water. It has always my habit, to keep those plants back there and try to keep as much heat as possible on them for the winter...and then pop them outside as soon as the summer hits!
WELL........I went to straighten up out there..and there was my poor spider plant ..all the babies were dead but a few...and the mother plant was mostly brown and dry.
I took the poor sad fellow to the box where I have all my compose items...I thought, you will just need to go in the 'pile' and I will find a new plant like you ...you are totally lost!
After a few days, I took a look at the plant again...and took it to the sink, trimmed all I could...and soaked it. I know how it can be when neglect is just too much. And I even talked to her, and told her I was sorry and I would try to give her a chance to live again.
Well, I have kept her by the kitchen sink and today...I found a new growth coming out of the base of the plant. She had been looking greener and starting to grow, but didn't think it would start to push out a new growth this quickly.
So I have kept her alive...she is growing...I hope she can make it to spring and I have promised to help her! :)
