SHARING WITH ME

Is Spring in the air? I decided to check out the Botanical gardens just down the road and see. In the renovated green house, there was a big Orchid exhibition. Now that I must see. My Mother had a way with Orchids. Not only did she make a little book of the 450 photos she had taken of one of her « babies » but she swore that the two she had, had their own characters. Anything new in the way of flowers that came into the flat and if placed next to this extraordinary plant would be killed off within a couple of days. After she left us, her Orchid was in full bloom and would you believe in one week, she lost all her flowers - a week later one was trying to flower so I took her off to the Orchid Hospital. There « Dr Orchid » informed me that the last flower was her « swan-song » and confirmed her history of jealousy toward other plants. Frankly, I found the story a little far fetched and then I discovered that Mother had put out onto the balcony a green tropical plant which she had had for