The perfect plant for a perfect grade
"I could have given you a perfect grade for this, but you drew the wrong plant!". I will never forget that comment from my teacher in Freehand Drawing in my Interior Design course five years ago. It was almost lunch when we started drawing the three vases, one vase with plant on it, so we were asked to finish the drawing at home. I wasn't able to find the same kind of plant that was on the vase when I got home. But there was another reason, I just didn't find the plant beautiful. They said it was a water plant.
I've never forgotten that incident, and the plant. Since then I've been looking for the presence of that plant everywhere there were plants, until I realized that inside the school of my son where we had a coffee kiosk, the plant was abundant. It is beautiful when the leaves are already big. I grew the plant at home and wondered if it will fulfill my dream of replacing my artificial decorative vine at home with a natural vine. But every time I put some on a vase with water, the plant just didn't last. I realized that was because I've always forgotten to add water. So I bought clear vases so I could see if there was no more water. Until I got used to adding water even when the vase was still half-filled.
I later learned that the plant's name is "Devil's Ivy", also called "Golden Pothos" and it has grown with big leaves outside our house which I intentionally trim to use as decors on vases. And from the grown plant with big leaves, I finally managed to grow its vine just using water exactly at the place where I used to hang artificial leaves.
I finally got my dream. It was a small dream that had nothing to do with my bad experience for not getting a perfect grade. Now I know why I shouldn't had misjudged that ugly plant that became my way to fulfill a dream.
I've never forgotten that incident, and the plant. Since then I've been looking for the presence of that plant everywhere there were plants, until I realized that inside the school of my son where we had a coffee kiosk, the plant was abundant. It is beautiful when the leaves are already big. I grew the plant at home and wondered if it will fulfill my dream of replacing my artificial decorative vine at home with a natural vine. But every time I put some on a vase with water, the plant just didn't last. I realized that was because I've always forgotten to add water. So I bought clear vases so I could see if there was no more water. Until I got used to adding water even when the vase was still half-filled.
I later learned that the plant's name is "Devil's Ivy", also called "Golden Pothos" and it has grown with big leaves outside our house which I intentionally trim to use as decors on vases. And from the grown plant with big leaves, I finally managed to grow its vine just using water exactly at the place where I used to hang artificial leaves.
I finally got my dream. It was a small dream that had nothing to do with my bad experience for not getting a perfect grade. Now I know why I shouldn't had misjudged that ugly plant that became my way to fulfill a dream.
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