Wednesday. 04/17/2019

My gardenia is telling me to water it and also to rotate it exactly 35 degrees to the north. It’s decided it likes when different areas of its leaves gets different types of light. I think it just likes it when I touch it.

When in Sonoma wine country last fall we were taught about riddling, a practice by which they turn the sparkling wine bottles to collect all the sediment so it can be removed easier. They do this for weeks, sometimes months, and for the most part it’s all automated. However, the most expensive champagne bottles are hand riddled. Painstakingly. Carefully. I imagine with gloved hands.

I think I’d rather have an expensive bottle of champagne rather than an expensive hand riddled gardenia and yet, I continue to do its bidding. Send help. Or expensive champagne.

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  1. Only you could connect the gardenia to champagne. And so, your wish is granted- Ironhorse Spring Rose for Easter. You’re welcome.

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