after picking up a few serving dishes at the soho c&b, i met kevin for dinner at one of our local go-to spots, soba-ya, for a quick, tasty dinner. we ordered the santen-mori (three vegetable dishes) of kimpira-gobo, satsuma-imo, and kabocha to shiitake, and a few vegetable tempura as appetizers. i love japanese veggie dishes - they are so simple and SO GOOD. kev had the large sardine hot soba special and i had the mini oyakodon.
when we arrived home, my table-top fiddle leaf fig tree arrived via usps from ohio! it was packaged very carefully in a 2-day priority box with packing peanuts and a warm heating pack, but the leaves were very dirty (white spots all over them) and sickly/damaged upon arrival. also, the top 2 inches of the stem was soft and had fallen to one side. it couldn't have been good for the plant to be packaged and away from sunlight for 2 days, but i think it's also possible that the gardener didn't take very good care of this guy, and it was damaged in transit (possibly frozen, due to the snowpocalypse). i repotted the little guy and wiped down his leaves, and put him in a southern facing windowsill. hopefully it's not too late to save him and it's bright and sunny tomorrow!
here is a photo of him right after i removed him from the box. how sad! stay tuned ...
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