" A Phytophiliac's Chronicle Of Dying Daisies"
By: Passiflora incarnata
About dying-daisies.com
Why The Odd Title?
Well, "Phytophiliac" refers to someone with an affinity for plants. This book is a narrative non-fiction, a true story that reads like a fictitious journal or a "chronicle " of adventures and misadventures.
Now for the "dying daisies" aspect;
I use cut flowers to depict short lived, casual relationships, and potted plants to depict long term, serious ones.
A substantial theme throughout the novel is navigating my feelings on these two types of relationships and the pros and cons that come with each.
I mostly maintain that I much prefer cut flowers, like daisies, because even if they wilt and die quickly, they are beautiful for a time and I'm free to enjoy their fading beauty without the pressure of keeping them alive or the heartbreak when they wither away. Because no matter what you do, no one can keep a daisy alive for long. They're supposed to die, and that's ok.
The wistful allure to a real plant , a potted plant , of my own - however- proves both annoyingly continual and disappointingly predictably futile. Potted plants require work, and I don't mind that actually. What I do mind- what I hate- is pouring my heart and soul into keeping something alive , to nurturing it to thrive in everyway possible, and then years later helplessly watching it wither away to a mere pot of dirt... of watching something that in theory had potential to be beautifully eternal, prove to be nothing more than a waste of time , love and effort.
So what's a girl to do? Keep idealistically digging in the dirt? Or merely resolve herself to a lifetime full of dying daisies?
Pick up your copy to find out ;)