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Spring is Sprung

On my way to Gadgets Towers this morning I couldn’t help but notice the sun shining, the flowers shooting out from the ground, the blossom on and birds singing in the trees. Well, maybe not the birds singing over my iPod, but you get the idea. Spring appears to have finally been sprung.

Now I’m not the most green fingered individual. I personally have never seen the attraction gardening holds. Crawling around on your hands and knees in the mud pulling up what you hope are weeds and aren’t plants that you want to keep, only to do it again a couple of weeks later.

Having said that, at this time of year I do find myself thinking that it might be nice to have a bit of plant life around the place. Not high maintenance plant life, not something that’ll die if I forget to water it for a few days, and not something that will wilt or shrivel if I put it in the wrong window. Something nevertheless to demonstrate that amid all the great gadgets and technological wonders around us there are also some amazing things occurring in nature that maybe sometimes we don’t take enough time to think about because we are all too excited about the newest gizmo or technological advancement.

Of course there are plenty of ‘Easy Grow’ plant kits out there such as our own Grow It Starter Kit, and Botanicals Indoor Greenhouse Kit. However although these are easy enough to set up, for me personally I would begin to forget about them after a while and they would inevitably go the way of the Dodo as it were.

I then thought that maybe our Pet Plants might be more the thing for me. The Pet Plants are all various forms of plant that don’t require a lot of care and watering. Thinking about this a bit further I came to the conclusion that this was not ideal for me either, I can see that as the plant only needs watering every two months or so I’ll doubtless forget to water it.

Finally I stumbled upon something called the “Dinosaur Plant”, which is also known as the “Resurrection Plant”, or “Rose of Jericho”. This plant comes as what resembles a tumbleweed, but once watered it will transform within hours to a vibrant evergreen. Should you forget to water it the plant will merely shrivel into a kind of hibernation state waiting for water, perfect for those of us who lose interest in these things after a while!