Is it true that Geminians suck at gardening?

A 70-something-old couple visited my home recently. They were at awe with my humble garden.

“Really? You really like my garden? Seriously?” I just couldn’t believe my ears when I heard the unexpected compliments.

“Yup, people say that I have hot fingers. Too hot to plant anything. Everything I ever planted in the past, died,” replied the sad old man. “A friend even suggested that I have to soak my fingers in ice, to cool them off.”

“You’ve got to be kidding me! A plant needs only three things, water, air and food. Just like us,” I couldn’t believe that I was actually teaching a person much more senior than myself about basic gardening. I am, after all an amateur gardener myself.

“Perhaps I am a Gemini. A gemini-an can’t plant anything. I get bored easily. I’ll water and feed the plants for a while, before I get terribly bored with the chores. When I stopped, the plants dried off and died,” he explained.

“Gulp…I am a Gemini and I get bored easily too. I didn’t know that a Gemini can’t plant. My greatest feat was this 17-year old bougainvillea tree which I planted when I first moved into this neighborhood,” I replied pointing my thumb towards my pride-and-joy plant, with a touch of skepticism playing my mind. Oh sure, anyone can plant a bougainvillea. Just stick the stem in the ground, and it’ll grow by itself. Was the bougainvillea really a fluke?

As I seep an aromatic nescafe black coffee this morning, standing face-to-face towards my adolescent tree, I couldn’t help but admire it. Find soothing thoughts in it.

And unconsciously I find myself repeating, “Go, go Gemini Gardener. Go and share with the world that Gemini-ans can indeed plant trees and be good at gardening. If and when, we choose to.”

– GG