Planting

The oregano plant on my desk is beginning to get green. There are new small baby leaves and a shoot that is really too long, indicative of not enough light, that has stretched toward the lamp with new larger leaves. This means the roots are doing their thing. I’ll be able to cut it back, use the leaves, and still retain this plant. I’m excited about it.

The St. John’s wort that sits in a coke bottle full of water is also showing many white roots all through the bottle. It is ready for dirt now I bet, though I’ll leave it in the bottle so that I can see the roots growing as a reminder of what the oregano is doing within the dirt of the clay pot in which it sits.

I’ve had this St. John’s wort plant for several years now, since the move, and it flourishes with branches and leaves but never blooms. I might do a little research to see what it is that it isn’t getting so that it will produce some blooms. A bloom can indicate the path to bearing fruit.

Bloom where you are planted. What if I am still in a coke bottle? I have enough water and light, but I need soil beneath my feet. What kind of soil will I require? I think it must be a crusty lusty old man. I think I might know one that would fit. I think perhaps when I hit the snooze button this morning for the third time and climbed back into the warmth of my bed, I was thinking of his arms about me and the warmth of skin to skin on a cold Indian summer day.

~Regina