Cellar Surprise
Last Friday when I was working in the cellar I noticed a surprising thing. In a flower pot under a table against the wall, a sprout was growing! Whatever it is was sending up a tall, sturdy stalk with two furled leaves. It was pale white. Anything trying that hard to grow deserves a chance to live in the light, I thought. I brought it upstairs and made room for it on my plant bench in front of the dining room window.
I've watched it every day now, -Saturday, Sunday, Monday. It's making progress but ever so slowly. It is turning green now. Perhaps it is a tiny bit taller. The furled leaves have opened a little now. But there has not been enough progress for me to determine what the plant is.
It might help if I could remember what was growing int the flower pot last summer, but I don't know. When frost killed the non house plants, I brought the pots into the house and stored them in the cellar. Now I have this eagerly growing plant which I have not yet identified.
I'm not all that sharp at identifying growing things. The milkweed that I let grow by our driveway turned out to be a pokeweed! I like it any how and encouraged it to grow every year. I nurtured a healthy growing plant all summer once, in the curbside flower bed, and then as we went into September discovered that it was golden rod! It was healthy and beautiful and I let it bloom, but I didn't let it come up again the next year.
What am I nurturing in my flower pot? How interesting it will be to discover what it is! I enjoy a surprise like this.
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