Knox Box of Miscellany

Dawn Knox – A rearranger of words into something hopefully meaningful…

Who, me?

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SquirrelSome time ago, my dad planted a mango stone in a pot of compost and watered it carefully until it grew into a small plant. He found the foliage rather pleasing and decided to grow one for me. In due course, up came my plant, looking, not surprisingly, like his plant. Except that as it turns out, this was most surprising indeed.

Visitors to my parents’ house often remarked on his plant, which by this time was about five feet tall and several expressed surprise when Dad told them it was a mango tree, saying it looked more like a horse chestnut.

In fact, so many people thought it was a horse chestnut tree, Dad took some leaves into the local garden centre and it was pronounced… a horse chestnut tree.

No one could explain why two separate mango stones planted at different times should have turned into horse chestnut plants, other than to suggest squirrels had planted conkers in the pots. We still can’t quite believe that’s what happened but no one can explain it otherwise.

Have you ever planted something, tended it and found you’d grown an imposter? Did you ever find out how it happened?

Daffodil uncovered an imposter in ‘Daffodil and the Thin Place’. A well respected and trusted person turned out to be not as expected. If you want to know more, you can find the book here

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