Yes, I know it’s the wrong end of the solar year for that title; bear with me…

I’m pretty sure I hadn’t mentioned it here previously, but after returning to work after a short Thanksgiving break, I discovered that one of the two furnaces in my building had failed; once the maintenance guys did some balancing, it wasn’t too bad here while the blower motor for one of them was down, but it was pretty cold for a day or two.

Anyway…that’s some background for my story here.

For the last two years or so, I’ve had a nice spathiphyllum plant sitting here in my office keeping me company and doing a bit of air purifying (as that’s what these guys are good for). Now, I usually don’t have much luck with plantsunless they’re submerged in a box of water with some fish, though I tend to do okay with these; “Dave” lived with me in my dorm room in college for years, and this one (who I’ve never named for some reason) has done pretty well under the flourescents and late-day sun from the windows.

Anyway, I left for the weekend on Friday with the plant looking healthy as usual. I returned on Monday morning to find this:

Yep, pretty much cooked, thanks to it getting down below freezing over the weekend, the maintenance guys fixing the blower motor, and very hot, very dry air blasting from the ceiling heat vent right onto my plant because they never re-balanced the system.

Anyway; I moved things around, did some extra watering and hoped for the best, though as I left the office yesterday, I wasn’t expecting much, as things hadn’t improved since the morning. I was kind of expecting to need to conduct a plant funeral and go shopping for something new over Christmas break.

In any case, I came in this morning and found the following:

Definite improvement. I’m pretty sure I’m going to lose a bunch of leaves and that flower near the top, but I think in the end, things will bounce back. There’s even some new growth in the middle.

It’s a Christmas miracle.