Robert Heinlein wrote a novel called The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. The hero, Colonel Colin Campbell, a.k.a. Richard Ames, owns a bonsai tree that survives all his adventures. He calls the plant "Tree-San."

When we were living in the apartment in Smyrna, we went to Harry's one day and found an assortment of miniature roses. We bought one and named it "Rose-San" and it lived well on the windowsill of our kitchen for several years, and then it got some type of insect infestation, mites or something. I treated it, the insects disappeared and the plant rallied, then died.

I wanted another rose, but the kitchen in the old house was always dark. The window over the sink got some sun in the morning, but the house next door blocked the sun most of that time. The bedroom windows facing west would have been too hot for a plant in the summer time and it would have been forgotten upstairs.

But the dining room windows now face east.

So here's a new Rose-San. She's actually Canadian, bred in gardens in Ontario.



And to go with Pidgie's snapshot last week, here's Willow:

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