I Had a Dream! (but I ignored it...)

I was writing a reply to the thread on Whitelock's Garden...but I kind of veered off...so just thought I'd post a new thread.

I live around 5 minutes from Whitelock and it got down to 32F a few weeks ago. My friend lives only a few blocks away from Whitelock and he got down to at least freezing as well. So I wouldn't be surprised if Whitelock also experienced some cold damage.

I've been meaning to post my cold damage list online but haven't had a chance. Two of my plants that I'm extremely happy about because they did not suffer any cold damage are Myrmecodia beccarii and Medinilla sedifolia. I only have one of each though so perhaps they were just in a lucky micro-climate. The plant that I'm most sad about is Hoya australis ssp rupicola. But it was just a small established cutting. All three were mounted.

What's "funny" is that a week before the freeze I actually had a dream in which the Hoya was damaged in a freeze. LOL (painful laughter). Has anybody else dreamt about losing a specific plant because of cold? How much of a crazy plant nut do you have to be in order to have such dreams?

I told my friend about my nightmare coming true and she told me that I should have heeded the warning and brought the plant inside. I told her that it would have been far more irrational for me to act on a dream. Right?

I actually had three M. beccariis...but just before winter I gave one to Kartuz and the other to Andy's orchids. I also gave some established cuttings of M. sedifolia to Andy as well and had given my mother plant to Kartuz more than a year ago. This last time when I went down there I really really really should have given the Hoya to Kartuz. Sigh.

But the moral of the story, as always, is...don't keep all your eggs in one basket...hedge your bets...divide and conquer...and sharing is caring.

Eh, well, while I'm here. There's hindsight, insight and foresight. How many times did Einstein realize, after it was too late, that there wasn't any toilet paper? Is there any person who hasn't experienced such a situation?

Insight: you realize you need toilet paper to successfully accomplish the mission

Foresight: you check and see if there is sufficient toilet paper before you start the mission

Hindsight: realizing why you failed your mission

In the military...after each mission we would have After Action Reviews (AARs)...

1. What was supposed to happen

2. What actually happened

3. Where there's room for improvement

In all our lives there's room for improvement. Clearly, plants improve our lives. That's why we are like a kid in a candy store when we visit our favorite nurseries.

Being a kid in a candy store...isn't that the same thing as heaven? Therefore, heaven on earth absolutely depends on our freedom to choose the things that match our preferences.

So the real moral of the story of life is for you to like tax choice on facebook. But the choice is yours...as it should be!

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

- W.B. Yeats