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A hospital where every patient is a houseplant
In Edinburgh a horticulturalist opened the Hilda Houseplant Hospital, where a drooping fern gets a patient history, a diagnosis, a drip and, if it comes to it, surgery.
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Rosanna Costello of Edinburgh opened what she calls Britain's first houseplant hospital. You bring in the monstera that has seen better days; she takes a patient history, talks through the diagnosis, and the plant is admitted. Patients can be put on a drip, placed in quarantine away from the others, or taken into surgery for the serious cases. Then, if all goes well, discharged, upright, to a relieved owner.
It is crowned for the straight face: a whole hospital, with wards and charts and bedside manner, run entirely for the benefit of ferns.
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Sources: Good News Network: UK's First Hospital for Houseplants · Daily Record: Plant hospital opens in Scotland and offers 'surgery' for 'sick' houseplants · Hilda: Welcome to the Hilda Houseplant Hospital
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