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title: "Unfortunately this is not a plant recovery story, it’s a plant dying…"
description: "Unfortunately this is not a plant recovery story, it’s a plant dying story. I used to have a fern named Ferny but it died 😢😢 I’m a black thumb, so I knew…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/EtC_giEjQPOiUzh_TOv4BQ/Da95x0DtRQq-ly5Jzl_KWQ"
community: "Plant Recovery Room"
author: "Mandrakes&More"
published: "2024-02-20T01:54:56.519807Z"
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# Unfortunately this is not a plant recovery story, it’s a plant dying…

_Posted by Mandrakes\&More on 2024-02-20_

Unfortunately this is not a plant recovery story, it’s a plant dying story. I used to have a fern named Ferny but it died 😢😢 I’m a black thumb, so I knew this would happen eventually. Not good at taking care of plants. I won’t be getting another fern any time soon. My heart is still broken

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## 3 comments

### Vera commented on 2024-02-20

Ferns are actually really hard! Don’t be discouraged. I considered myself a black thumb till I learned by rehabbing Lowe’s clearance rack plants and here we are three years and two hundred plants later. We believe in you. 🥰

#### Vera replied on 2024-02-21

I’ve condensed a couple re: the great lighting crisis of 2024, so I’m down to like 190. 🫠

### Mandrakes\&More commented on 2024-02-20

Thank you guys for the support 🩷 I just bought a ZZ so hopefully that will go well!

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