Have you ever had a houseplant die and it really upset you?

I have a vine thing that is also indestructible.

I have never been upset over the plants

Yes, they all die so now I have fake plants so no more emotional angst!!

I just threw away an African violet---they don't do well in my house.

So many, when I went on vacation and left them in my son's care/

I have a christmas cactus that wont die.  I forget to water it all the time.

I had a plant of my grandmothers that I had to get rid of when we moved out of the country. I was very unhappy about that.

I quit trying inside plants a loooong time ago...lol. My outside ones do okay if all I have to do is water them. I am trying to be a bit more hands on, but I keep remembering I have a black thumb of death for them...sigh.

I had an Africian Violet ( my moms favorite house plant, she even grew some for seed) that for years after my Moms death would bloom like mad and then it suddenly died
I was crushed

No, I have plants that are over 25 years old. Guess I got what you call the green thumb. I love all plants and flowers. Sorry yours died. When winter season comes I tend to cut back on the watering and make sure they are not in a draft. Maybe it was just it's time, Peter. :)

I don't do plants really, because they die... Recently I went out and got blackberry plants from my uncle's farm and brought them home... I killed them and now I must wallow in self pity for a long time... How can one kill plants that grow wild anyways?!?!?

Isn't it funny how you can get attached TO A PLANT ??? !!!

ha ha

Yes, My sister in law bought me a Easter Lilly and it was soooo beautiful and during the winter it bit the dust. I was depressed over it.
Plants are sentimental to us.

This subject caught my eye because I have no luck at all with houseplants. They come into my home and immediately commit suicide. It bothered me so much that I switched to artificial plants.

That is ... until ... this Mother's Day.

I got a beautiful real, live "Orchid." Based on past history and my realizing it's life span would be cut short here, (Especially an Orchid) I decided to give it to my friend who can grow anything. I set it in my kitchen window, and started watering it, stuck one of those little fertilizer sticks in it, until I could manage to get it over to her. Well, I got busy, time passed and I never got it to her.

In the meantime, it sprouted a new leaf, now has five blooms and is a most healthy, lovely plant. In my wildest dream I would never have thought this would happen, and that is why when I saw your article, I just had to tell somebody.

This plant has lived almost a month in my home. It's kind of scary and wonderful ... all at the same time.

Only once. I had this small little ceramic frog with some kind of Ivy planted inside it. It was given to me by one of my sisters as a house warming gift. During one of my many spring cleanings, I accidentaly broke the frog and damaged the plant.

I glued the frog back together but the plant eventually died. Since it was a gift, I felt pretty bad .

I get so attached and upset when they die I hold funerals. I have a plant cemetery in my yard.

Peter...this has to go right up there with the worst of the point whore article names!! I'm giving you points for the effort. This is sort of like..."if you were a tree, what would you be?" Feel free to use that one, I'm not going to! Just credit Barbara Walters.

I haven't because they don't last long enough, but I did post an article about how you can get plants that can "tell" you how they feel and if they're healthy.

I had a night-bloomer that I had rooted from a leaf that a friend gave me. I really was attached. When we moved to a higher and colder place in the mountains it didn't make it. I missed that plant and the anticipation of it blooming.

When I lived in upstate NY, my wife put all my houseplants out on the patio to get some sun it was so nice out... she thought. Anyway, when I got off work and arrived home I had a dozen or so frozen solid plants. The sun may have been out for the first time in a while, but it was still only 10 degrees out! They were toast.
She had never lived in winter before and well, just blew it LOL.

Yay house plants

I was kinda creeped out when all my Basil died this Spring from not enough sun - but I got a new batch going so I'm okay now.

YAY !!!

No, I've killed many of a plant in my day.

I am actually more attached to the plants I grow outside than house plants.

Yes, the last two flower plant smy husband got for me. I left them outside. Than it froze. I was so mad I only had them a week. befopre silly me killed them.

I have had a few house plants die, but I did not get upset.

Yes, I have. I had a peace lily that I bought the summer my younger daughter was born. Now, I DON'T have a green thumb, but had managed to keep this thing alive for 16 years. When I came home from FL in April it was dead. Not a green speck on the poor thing. I was so mad!

I don't have plants I don't do well with them

Nope thats one thing that can die and I don't have to have feelings. And i have a lot of them die
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