Re: Expensive plants bite it...

John Taylor [The Banshee] (rphjt@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
Mon, 28 Sep 92 16:07:19 +0000

> This is merely a plaintive letter seeking commiseration
> for the confirmed passing of most of my D. petiolaris complex plants.
> This is the first major plant loss I've had, and of course it
> was the most expensive plants.
>
> I just checked, and it seems that my lone surviving D. falconeri,
> and my D. petiolaris aff. "Kununuraa", have rotted away. The
> former didn't survive the last aphid attack, while it was
> recovering from other ailments, and the latter died for some
> unknown reason. I think it's been dead for some time, but
> I wasn't sure.

Don't feel too bad, Robert, my 2 petiolaris plants snuffed it long ago... :-(
Murphy's Law dictates that the most expensive plants will always die first
(which is no doubt why they are so expensive in the first place...)

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