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I have a houseplant. It was once a large 'umbrella tree', but now it really does look umbelliferous with a long stalk and just a few leaves at the very top.

Should I:

(a) wait until it is properly dead;

(b) continue to care for it in hope of its return to full health; or

(c) take the view that the plant knows that it has failed me, hand it a pistol, suggest that it might like to "save me all the unnecessary red tape", leave the room and wait for the bang?

I can't help thinking, 'where there's life' and all that. Is this just silly sentimentality on my part, where sometimes you just have to be cruel to be kind?

This is a serious enquiry concerning the life of another and, as such, I would appreciate considered responses only which use apostrophes correctly.

CB

CB bin it. Get a cactus instead. They are virtually impossibe to kill.

I kill all plants!!! I'm useless with em..........Scrap em and buy plastic ones.......Thats what I did!!!

Now how the hell is s-c-r-a-p a swear word????!!!! lol

that's, that's, that's, that's

x 100 pls

Check out the face of concern here!!! <sigh>

Sexygoth wrote:Now how the hell is s-c-r-a-p a swear word????!!!! lol

It's short for b-u-l-l-s-c-r-a-p.

Regarding the plant, try cutting it down a bit, and give it some nutrition. Might get it going again.

or, pull it out by the roots and bury it somewhere else

i dont know plants....

yeah, just scrap it

mugabe wrote:Regarding the plant, try cutting it down a bit, and give it some nutrition. Might get it going again.

Who the hell are you, Charlie Dimmock?? And I bet you don't wear a bra either.............Dirty bugger!

Are you wearing a bra in the picture you invited me to check out?

I invited you to check out the face!!!

......And I wouldn't garden in that dress

gardening is to good for it.

But the straps on the dress below the face you invited me to check out would make a good trellis.

Clucking Belle wrote:But the straps on the dress below the face you invited me to check out would make a good trellis.

now you just keep your gaze above the neck! are there no gentlemen left in this world?

<thinks about changing avatar>

RicheyJames wrote: now you just keep your gaze above the neck!

Does that admonition apply to Ladies as well? I have a real problem keeping my gaze above the neck.....or even above the waist....

RicheyJames wrote:are there no gentlemen left in this world?

Hardly surprising. I offered my Voltairean advice and only got scorned for being a dirty bugger.

Des Esseintes certainly had something going.

Aw..I had one of these. Put up with it's pathetically diseased look for ages before consulting my father. He advised pruning off all the leaves. "There, there, it'll soon grow new ones".

I did.

It looked like a twig for 3 weeks.

Then died.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<There you go!!!

(Thanks to the people who helped)

Clucking Belle wrote:I have a houseplant.

That was where you went wrong.

Clucking Belle wrote:I have a houseplant. It was once a large 'umbrella tree', but now it really does look umbelliferous with a long stalk and just a few leaves at the very top.

Cut all the leaves off....and call it an anorexic Yukka?

The answer is "Plastic Plants" - no watering, tending or anything else apart from the occasional "Dusting"

That's what I said you bloody cheat

Sexygoth wrote:That's what I said you bloody cheat

@ SG - So You Did! Please accept my apologies - I must have missed your mentioning Plastic Plants - still a bloody good idea though!