/tags/flower/Recent content in Flower on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usWed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2022/02/09/passion-fruit/Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2022/02/09/passion-fruit/<p>Mary was really excited. She had finally gotten a grant to study the disappearance of a colony that settled on the island she now stood on. The Polynesian Island was densely forested but mapped by satellites so she had no problem locating the site of the old colony. The colony was located near a stream where it entered the ocean. It only took the boat crew an hour to unload her equipment and help her to set up her base camp next to the beach, just inside the tree line, about a quarter of a mile from the colony. Once everything was ready and the radio was checked the crew left her alone on the island. They were scheduled to return in 2 weeks to pick her up.</p>/stories/2017/10/30/the-passion-flower/Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2017/10/30/the-passion-flower/<p>She loved her Passion flower. Ever since she had seen the all but dead thing in a pot at the garden centre. She took pity on it, she planted it into her garden, fed it, gave it space to climb.</p> <p>Over the years it grew stronger, each year it grew more and more. Secateurs no longer tough enough to cut it back and the end of the season. Instead she had to attack it with a power saw.</p>