Every season, it’s some new mistake in the conservatory. Two weeks ago when I brought my citrus trees inside, I forgot that they need to acclimate to the grow lights slowly. Instead, I blithely bathed them in photons for eight hours a day. Now, many of the leaves are, in essence, sunburned, and like sunburned skin, are drying and falling off. I can listen to the consequences of my mistake: all too often, I hear a little rattle as a dessicated leaf hits the stone floor.


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