Showing posts with label new growth madagascar dragon plant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new growth madagascar dragon plant. Show all posts

Friday, October 12, 2012

What Happens if a Cat Poops in the Madagascar Dragon Plant ?

This summer I did my daughter and her family a favor and when they went out of town I kittysat. I took care of Honey comb, the orange tiger.  I had a box of litter out for her but she liked the feel and texture of the potting soil in my Madagascar Dragon plant. I thought that it was going to become ill after she urinated and defecated in the houseplant dirt.  The day after it happened the plant looked a little wilty...so I watered it heavily (I had scooped out the kitty poo that I could identify) hoping I could reduce the damage by "flushing" the nitrogen out.

I was very surprised about two weeks later...



The Madagascar Dragon sprouted three new shoots!  When a houseplant, such as this, which has gone years without side branches or new growth just pops out new shoots it is a major event!

The above picture was taken in August.  Below are photos from tonight.  It has grown very well.






The plant on the right hand side, the singleton, I bought in 2004 when I lived in my apartment after my divorce. I brought it home when it was about 10 inches tall!  The two together on the left I bought at the annual church big yard sale, for 10 dollars,  I thought the singleton needed company.  Now they are a happy little Madagascar Dragon family!

I guess this sequence of events could be interpreted very philosophically!  A negative occurrence might actually have an unexpected great outcome!