Living in Montana is not for everybody. This especially applies to a host of exotic plants. Honestly, it’s a narrow range of plants that can survive our long months of winter, replete with arctic impulses and their sub-zero temperatures.
We
can lull some of these soft-natured plants into growing here by providing space
in places such as our sunroom. But even the sunroom trick fails from time to
time. Perhaps our low humidity squeezes them a bit too hard. Or the intense and
unrelenting midsummer sun slaps others silly.
Now
enter a bird of paradise stage right. The plant kind, I mean. After brief
deliberations, Desiree and I had a “bird” shipped here. We immediately unpacked
the thing and placed it in the sunroom.
Not
to put too fine a point on it, the plant gradually shriveled and died as an
upright stick.
We now have a stick of paradise.
—Mitchell
Hegman
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