An ode to my dorm plants
In case you ever need to smuggle a plant onto an airplane for an extended flight, a Dixie cup with a couple of toothpick holes poked in the bottom and a foil cover will do the trick. This advice is well-tested — in August of 2022, I flew five hours across the United States with three pieces of luggage and a tiny plant in a Dixie cup. This plant was an aloe vera, the runt of its litter: a tiny sprig of green with two skinny leaves and a pat of dirt. When I’d massaged it out of a root ball from our garden box back home, I knew it wouldn’t survive a month without me.