I have an elaborate ploy. It involves friends who are on holidays. While they’re away traipsing the jungle, I’m in their room creating one. I’ve got three weeks.
This is how a home jungle is made: collect cuttings from your neighbourhood (make sure you ask). The kinds of plants you’re collecting are the type that thrive in water – their leaves look the texture of palm trees, their branches more like bamboo. Give any plastic looking plant a go.
Buy yourself a few second-hand vintage looking vases, fill them with water and place your cutting in the vase. Your plant will start growing roots within a few weeks. Now that this elaborate prank is coming to fruition, I’m ready to encounter the looks on my friends’ faces as they marvel at this little slice of paradise, right in their own room.
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