After a disastrous season comes the calm and the cacti🌵

Welcome to a new post, dear Hiver!

Every year in gardening has its own level of difficulty.

Today, like every day, I put the cacti and succulents outside to get some light. It's something I've been doing for a few months now because of some disasters that have occurred.

I lost one of the purple agave plants during the rainy season. I couldn't get home in time to protect them from the rain; they usually thrive in the sun, but I was doing my professional internship those months, so I was getting home late.

Then, as if by fate, I managed to find the purple mauey cactus I had lost.

That made me incredibly happy.

However, this rainy season was particularly violent, and I almost lost all my cacti and succulents.

Because of this, I now keep them indoors, I keep a close eye on them, and I basically have a routine for them.

The cats also had their share of damage, destroying some of my succulents.

I never got to see the flower that was about to bloom on one of my succulents because it suffered some unknown attack.

And so it went with several incidents. Until today, when I took the succulents and cacti outside and saw that this little cactus would have more like it.

Interestingly, my sister asked me a few days ago how this cactus reproduced. It was just a matter of waiting, and now it's happening.

So yes, this year I lost many plants due to circumstances beyond my control, but new species have arrived in the garden, and others have even produced offspring.

For example, this little one here that came home this year was just a small branch, and now it's bushy. Sure, it has some dry leaves, but it's much better than when it arrived; it just needed enough light.

The same goes for other plants.

It's like life; sometimes we lose, but we also gain so much afterward. That's how the world generally works, it seems.

But even though things like this happen, I always have hope—hope that many more plants will come to me, that my plans will come to fruition, and that everything will fall into place.

Maybe things won't happen the way I want or when I want them to, but oh well, I just have to persevere. Because I enjoy this, because I love plants, because I know everything will be alright, and this is just a rough patch.

Like every year, nothing is perfect; things happen that we don't expect and that we wish wouldn't happen. Just like when I first started my garden, I couldn't fully enjoy my plants because of various disasters. However, that didn't make me give up; I'm still working on having a garden.

I know I can do it. I know I enjoy planting and I'm good at it, but I haven't taken into account various factors like the weather and my pets.

Now, everything that's happened has taught me a lot. To be cautious, to go the extra mile and prevent disasters that might occur.

It's even taught me to act quickly, otherwise I could lose a plant. And losing a plant also means losing a lot of time and love invested in caring for it, so it hurts when those kinds of things happen.

So, here we go, learning, and moving forward in this beautiful world of plants.

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