plant propagation

  • A mason jar filled with water, three violet leaves are floating, with thin white roots sprouting from the base.

    The lower half of my grandmother’s apartment window was filled with African violets. Occasionally, she accidentally broke off a violet leaf when she watered or rotated the pots, but she just stuck it into another pot, and it grew into a new plant. I thought she was magical. My grandmother wasn’t magical, but she could…

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