My Plants There is a beautiful flower called bird of paradise on my desk, with beautiful orange color. I happened to own it this Monday. That day, I was reading a book on a bench on campus, while a gardener was pruning the lesves in front of me. As I rose, I saw him holding sth orange. He pruned the leaves around it, leaving the flower alone. It looked like a big water-drop. Then I got it. I cutted a plastic bottle into halves,and put some water and the flower into the bottom half one. Today is ehw third day. One petal has parted from the others(Like the photo below), exposing some pistils or stamens which the top of them are green somehow. Hope it go well on the process of coming out. I like to live with some plants. So far, I've rasied 3 cactus. The first two died, for I put them on the desk isolating to the sunshine. The cactus wasn't die-hard as I'd imagined. SORRY TO THEM!