I love plants so much and in all my homes I've always had one. But, maybe for excessive attention, I cannot define myself a green thumb: that is, as long as they are well, all is well, but if something goes wrong, I usually lose them.
Furthermore, we know that being inside, in a pot, plants cannot count on the benefits of the whole Nature's ecosystem, especially when they are not well.
Our beautiful Jasmine is about three years old, and during the last years, in May, it has always had a splendid flowering; but only one, and I have often wondered why. Anyway, this despite moving places, changes of environment and, this past winter 2019/2020, even being placed outside on the windowsill.
Everything seemed ok, when suddenly its leaves started to turn red, a wonderful red I must say, like autumn foliage! It was really funny to see some very green leaves dotted with little white flowers and this intense red! But clearly there was a problem.
My friend Wilde, who knows about growing and gardening, advised me to change the soil in the pot with a special new one. In the shop the seller also advised me to use a liquid fertilizer to help the Jasmine, actually arguing that perhaps it was not advisable to change the soil so as not to disturb the flowering.
I go home, I pick up the tall trunk - talking to him and explaining the reason for this sudden chaos - I proceed to change the soil and ... voila, not even a flower on the ground! I thought it was a good sign, I put it back on the windowsill, watering it well with the new product.
During the last two months dear Jasmine has improved a lot, I helped him by frequently removing the red leaves so that the sap wouldn't go to waste in them, I talked to him every morning (also expressing my solidarity with him for putting up with the occasional horrible shouting of the man living across the window) and no more red leaves have appeared.
Instead, yesterday I found with joy that Jasmine is blooming a second time!
In Judaism, the festival of Pesach, one of the three biblical festivals and the one commemorating the liberation from slavery, is so important that we are given a second date, about a month later, to celebrate, called Pesach Sheni (the second Pesach).
This tradition has its roots (haha appropriate in this story of mine!) in ancient times, when it was possible that some traveler could not arrive in time to live this festival to the full.
That's why this 'blossoming sheni' of my Jasmine gives me a great excitement: indeed during the first one I was so worried about the state of the plant that I didn't enjoy it, and it's a sign of return to life!