Plant Death Quotes

You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet. I'm giving you responsibility, I'm giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I'm giving you sadness and guilt.

I'm not green-fingered, I'm grey-fingered. I suck the life out of plants.

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

I have a house full of dead succulents but I was very attentive.

I have trouble keeping plants alive. Even plastic ones.

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.

I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.

I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.