My gardenia is telling me that I’m watering it wrong. Unbeknownst to me, there is apparently a right way to water a gardenia and wrong way to water a gardenia. The wrong way is the intuitive way that you would simulate rain by just letting the water fall over the leaves and hit the soil. But no, the gardenia rejects the real world and prefers you to ever so gently spritz water directly to it roots and dirt. I’ve decided that I shall give in to the gardenia’s needs but then to also give one aggressive spritz to the leaves just to show it who’s the boss.