Gardening

When Houseplants Complain

It is important to listen

White Feather
3 min readJan 14, 2021

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The houseplants in my writing room would not shut up. They were all complaining about their positioning in regard to current sunshine angling. The sun has moved a lot in the last three months — or should I say that the planet has moved a lot?

It can be rather disconcerting to hear constant complaining while you are writing. It is distracting and annoying. I had to do something.

No one was complaining more vociferously than ficus tree #2. I used to have eight ficus trees in my home but now I only have three. Closing my eyes, I think of the other five trees I gave away or sold. I truly hope they are happy where ever they are now living.

Ficus tree #1 is my tallest tree at just under six feet. It has been very happy where it is and has not complained once. Ficus tree #2 is about ten inches shorter than ficus tree #1. It commands a very prominent place right in front of one of the two large east-facing windows in my writing room. But it was screaming at me to please lift it up. It did not want to be moved elsewhere; it just wanted to be higher up so that the tree filled the window. As it was, ficus tree #2 lived in a pot that was on the floor and only the top of the tree looked out the window. It wanted all of its leaves to be able to look out…

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