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Caelie Wilkes’ dream of being a nurturing plant parent died on the vine when she realized the succulent she’d been tenderly tending for two years was a fake. She recounted her botanical boo-boo Friday in a viral Facebook post.
“I feel like these last two years have been a lie,” Wilkes, 24, wrote.
The stay-at-home mom from California admits she was extremely proud of her “beautiful succulent,” which lived for two years on her kitchen windowsill. She was such a dedicated caretaker that “if someone else tried to water my succulent, I would get so defensive.”
However, when she tried to transplant it into “the cutest vase,” she made a disturbing discovery: Her “perfect plant”
“I pull it from the container [and] it’s sitting on Styrofoam with sand glued to the top!” Caelie wrote. “[I] tried my hardest to keep it looking it’s best, and it’s completely plastic!”
