A while back, I decided that I wanted to plant a vegetable garden.  This was a spectacularly ambitious thing for me to decide I wanted to do, considering that I kill literally every plant I ever touch.  But I went through some of the motions anyway, heading out to Walmart (of all places) and buying these little “easy gardener” pre-measured cups with seeds and plant food and finding a spot behind the house that looked like a good candidate.  I threw them in the ground, sprinkled some plant food on them for a few weeks, and promptly forgot about them.  There were a couple of cherry tomato plants, a broccoli plant (because I like broccoli), chili peppers, and some other stuff I can’t even remember because it all immediately died.  It’s been about 3 months now.  Most of them died; some of them didn’t even sprout.  One that did, though, was the broccoli plant.  A few weeks back I noticed it start to sprout.  Then it got bigger.  Then bigger.  Finally a big thing sprouted out of the top.  I was confused at first (I thought I’d planted cabbage; this should give you an idea of how good of a gardener I am).  But finally I realized - it’s broccoli!  A real broccoli thing, just like you’d find in a store.  I had every intention of actually cutting it off and eating it.  But of course, I didn’t get around to it.  A few more days passed, and this morning I left my house by the back door to head to my car, and what did I see, but a brilliant bouquet of flowers!  Color me stupid, but I had no idea that broccoli - the broccoli that you and I eat - is actually a big bunch of flowers!  Super pretty little yellow flowers.  Beautiful, really.

So, the lesson here is this: plant a bunch of stuff, even if you don’t think anything will happen.  A lot of times, it won’t.  But sometimes, it will, and you’ll find something unexpected.  And just when you least expect it, your broccoli will turn into a bouquet of flowers!