i heart macro: Another Tale of Weeds

I've forgotten the names of these... How could I?   I've struggled so to grow them. 

I first found them in the garden section of a hardware store, where I sometimes buy Spring flowers.   I thought they were so delicate, I was willing to pay a little bit more than my usual amount for one.  

I took home a bucket of them, planted in my garden.  I watered them.   I nourished them.   I watched them  disappear into the ground and never come back.  

#11:  "Striving vs. Thriving"

The next year, I was in a nursery.  I paid much more for 2 plants, because I really loved them, thought they looked rather exotic, and thought they would look lovely in the Japanese garden.   If I bought them at a nursery with a good reputation, if I was willing to pay more, surely they would thrive!

They did not thrive.

"No more money spent on these flowers!" I declared.  They will not grow on my land with the poor soil, no matter how much I pay for them.   I bemoaned the loss.   

My friend and co-worker declared them a weed.  "You can't kill them! They take over!    I have them everywhere!"    I wanted to loudly protest!    But then I heard her say the magic words,....

"I'll bring you some, you'll see..."

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