Im not good with plants

Book 6 Page 13

I’m not good with plants

I’m not good with plants ,

I haven’t got that green thumb.

I keep putting them in the shade

when apparently they really need the sun.

I give them water

from January to December

but usually only when

I remember.

And so they keep dying

like you wouldn’t believe.

Wilting their tearful crispy

all brown leaves.

I’ve been told “now only so much water for this type

and so much for that,”

but when it comes to plants it seems

I just haven’t got the knack.

Now don’t get me wrong, I like them in my

house and in the garden,

but inevitably they start out green and lush and finish up

brown and hardened.

It’s as though those plants have something against me.

I don’t think I couldn’t even raise a weed!

It’s just a bad combination,

flora and me.

I’m just no good with plants,

with me they don’t stand a chance.

I just haven’t got the ‘green thumb’ so they die,

ever single one.