14 months for $348 sounds painful but that Guelph bookkeeping shop is worth more than 60 tire kickers who churned. Most founders quit right before the first check clears, so sticking it out past a year of silence is the real win here. Slow burn beats no burn, and you actually got paid.

The fern wall at Longwood Gardens got me the same way last spring. I stood there staring at how the fronds overlapped and dripped off each other and thought, why do I have mine spread out like little soldiers on a shelf. When I got home I moved 9 of my ferns onto one bench pushed right up against a north window with a humidifier running next to them. The difference was nuts, new croziers popping up within 2 weeks on stuff that had been sitting still for months. The crowding keeps the air around them damp and the ones underneath get shade from the ones above. Turns out they were never meant to be solo. Now I rotate the front ones to the back every few weeks so everybody gets a turn in the light.