What Next?

At the top of a back staircase in our house this variegated sansevieria has lived for the last five years, requiring little care and growing happily.

A year or two ago, I decided to let it have a vacation outside.

However, it got placed in a spot with a little too much light and wasn't acclimated properly so it suffered.  I brought it in after only a few days, mad at myself for such foolishness.  During the last year or so it's struggled a bit and something that found the pot outside ate a few dents in the sides of a couple of leaves.  Maybe it got over watered but recently it decided to fall apart. 

What to do?  Is it time to call it quits and compost the whole thing or should the fallen bits be rooted, fresh soil provided and hope that the fun continues?   I've pondered this for a while.  

This spring, I was feeling a little blah and wasn't really enjoying being in the garden or even going to nurseries.   The amount of plants in my possession and the care they require seemed overwhelming.  Everything that I thought of to blog about seemed old - yes, there are new shoots, blooms, foliage but what haven't I already shared in previous years?  Blogging and being part of that community have been a true joy for me but recently, the thought of what to do next on the blog has been crossing my mind every time I look at that sansevieria.

I now know that a totally blocked vessel in my heart may have had something to do with my feeling of ennui.   The signs were fairly subtle and I dismissed the pain as being caused by moving too many pots out of the greenhouse.  Finally on Saturday evening, we walked  to the emergency room of the hospital just up the street.  I got a lovely private room in the coronary care unit with a view of the park.  A couple of days being pampered  and a nice surgery were just what the doctor ordered, literally.   I'm back home now and feeling much better than before but will be taking a break from blogging for a short time.  Until then, happy spring and happy gardening!