“At what point do you give up on a 'dead' plant?”

This is a good question, because I hate throwing plants away, and I will always try to revive them, if it looks the least bit possible.

Here's one I was handed, back in May:

 No, it's not a new breed of Mopadoodle. It's a plant. I know, because I poked it, just to be sure that it didn't have ears and teeth, underneath all that “fur”.

“It's dead!” said Mrs Client.

“It's dead!” echoed Mr Client.

They looked at me, woefully. I looked at them. I looked at the plant. Yes, it looked pretty dead. Why did they have a dead grass, I wondered? 

It transpired that they'd inherited a lot of plants, in various pots and planters, from a recently deceased relative, and this was one of the less attractive-looking ones...

 

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