Honestly: I can't remember when I bought my last cactus.
More precise:
If I ever bought a cactus.
I had one or two as a "teenager" - they were very easy to maintain, but my heart was not with them.
In the shopwindow of "Urban Outfitter" at the Ku'damm stood a whole collection - tiny, very tiny - the photo above only makes it appear big.
I stared.
Went in.
(And fretted about my motivation. I mean: A cactus?!? The thought of a movie with Catherine Hepburn made me think even harder - was it a symbol? Do I become unruly, cross-grained, in my rebellious search for the Holy Grail?).
A cactus is a pricky, evil little thing.
In the store I thought them "
funny" - and that is a word I learned to become
very cautious of in connection with clothes or furniture, for instance. It always means: "funny" only for a
very short time - then regret sets in, because most often it is -
kitschig.
This one too.
Look at that pot! (Well, I can turn it around, then it is plain white).
What astonishes me most - beside the fact that
I bought a cactus - is, that I even didn't buy the one I wanted (a miniature of the huge proud cacti with "arms" pointing up into at a relentless burning sun and blue sky in the desert Gobi...)
No, I bought that little fat one.
Why?
Because I saw that it was the only one (amongst about 50 others) that had little buds.
Pink. (You have to stare very hard to see it).
Sometimes one has to - stare very hard - to find a
bud nugget - but it might be worth the effort!
