Tag: personal

So Today, I’m going to tell you a story which may or may not have to do with various plant-based ideas involving schools. Partially because I want to tell this story, and partially because I think you’ll enjoy it.

I grew up a lot in Colorado. Now, in Colorado, the state flower is a pretty little thing. It’s the blue columbine. It’s also an endangered flower, so if it’s found, you’re not allowed to kill it.

A school in my town had pissed off an entire group of students. Notably, the senior class of the year. On the “senior skip/prank day”, all the seniors showed up. No pranks. The school was a little baffled.

Until the next season, when small blooms appeared in the lawn of the school. Tiny little blossoms. The students seemed not to cross the lawn as much. They all seemed to know something that staff didn’t know.

Slowly the blossoms grew. Blue columbines. Neatly planted… in the form of a cock.

The seniors were revenged. The school would have to replant every flower- thousands of them- in order to hide the shame. They ended up just planting a bunch more and calling it a garden in an attempt to cover it up. But the town knew. The school hushed up the news and newspapers, but everyone had a kid in that school.

Flash back to sixth grade, and one of my teachers is giving away old plants someone gave her. Most of them are wilting messes of flowers, but some are holding on. I choose a mint plant, because little me “wants to make tea like the old-fashioned days”.

I plant the mint.

Mint, as it happens, is a leafy monster of doom. One must not plant it anywhere it may have a chance to grow and spread. Because it will choke your daffodils, daisies, roses, and steal all the water from them and then climb over them all in an attempt to dominate the entire available earth. It overtook our whole front garden, which was a mess anyway, so no-one minded, but to this day there is a giant monster of mint in front of my childhood home.

My current university has been a butt to me. My current university has a giant green, along with several side gardens.

Mint can grow from cuttings.

I leave you to draw your own conclusions about my last year at this school, and what I might do the night before I leave.