These Four Plants

These four plants (and two more who are unpictured) are like trick candles.  I pour over these plants.  I move them around the house to the sun spots.  I google them so I am sure I am properly helping them.  I pick away their dead parts.  I rotate them, gaze at them, all but talk to them.  And yet they are hell bent on thinning, drooping and drying out.  Visitors give me the same advice that I already knew, that I already googled but nothing helps them.

The two on the ends are obsessed with eachother and if they are side by side, will grow and lean in the other's direction. So I separated them, and now this.  Second from the left is half the size that it used to be and the megalith in the middle doesn't seem to have any roots.  Its literally fallen out of its pot, soil and all, in one large mass and I have put it back in - maybe its plastic.

home-ownership is: Putting up shelves that don't fall down.  Keeping a clean fridge.  Mopping and Spot cleaning.  Rearranging furniture.  Junk drawers. And plant whispering.