The Botanical Industrial Complex wants you to throw your orchids away after the flowers fall off. I say “fuck that noise.” The second bloom is even more beautiful—and far more satisfying—than the first. And don’t get me started on the THIRD bloom!
I also refuse to buy cut flowers. Why pay for a dead flower? So whenever I get flowers for CARLA (npub1hu3…h8nh) I get her living orchids, then keep them alive indefinitely.