Negligent gardener here: I had no idea dead plants could come back to life. This guy died three years ago and I just left it in the pot.

by 01watts

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  2. You left a dead plant in a pot in your garden for 3 years? Thats not negligence, that’s laziness.

  3. Maybe you’re a necromancer. Do you curse a lot and visit the astral plane? These are subtle indicators you may be able to manipulate souls.

  4. It was probably watered recently – most likely rain. It happened with an old potted plant I had sitting in the yard & it came back to life, better than it was before.

  5. Contrary to my better half, who’s quick with the funeral service, I always give my “dead” plants another chance. I’d say 2 times out of 3 they come back to say thanks!

  6. My honeysuckle (had it for donkeys years in the ground) drops all its leaves and ‘dies’ on a semi regular basis. I don’t. Have the heart to dig it up and ditch it when it tries so hard. Gonna rename it Lazarus.

  7. My best plant is the zombie plant. It was dead in a pot in a flat I moved in. They left the pot there obviously. I did put water and now it’s a massive plant in a 40cm pot which has two varieties of palm trees. It goes up to the ceiling in my new new flats years after. 

  8. My husband has a talent for buying almost dead/ visibly dead flower plants from whatever store he’s shopping that are priced for almost nothing because the store wants to get rid of them. He almost always brings them back to life. Our garden is full of ‘rescue’ flower plants.

  9. I would pull those weeds out of the pot so they’re not taking water/nutrients from the plant 🙂

  10. We once killed a tiny cactus, and emptied it’s corpse into our garden. The next year I stumbled across a 4ft cactus in our garden in the spot we discarded it. It’s now 6ft and majestic as heck.

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