You can’t live in the tropics or sub tropics and not appreciate the amazing flora. Pineapples are really odd plants. They take two full years to produce a pineapple. This hard, brownish, reddish ball with spiky leaves has the sweetest, juiciest fruit inside.  We tried growing one. You cut off the top and simply plant it! Ours was doing surprisingly well, budded, grew a stalk and produced a perfectly formed micro-pineapple that started to grow… until our dog decided to become vegetarian and ate the whole thing! We haven’t tried growing any more since. I like to think that had our little pineapple grown, it would have looked something like this one. RIP Pineapple Cole. This was my second attempt with acrylics.

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