I really was torn between what Kenyans really like or what I personally like: On one hand I grew up around bougainvillea flowers which were sorta the status symbol of beauty in Kenya. They were all over, next to Kay Apples (the trees that we used to insinuate a fence with, that had yellow lovely poisonous fruits) and black jacks. So for a long time I though that bougainvillea plants grew in the wild, they easily got unmanageable after a while if neglected or not pruned properly. They had thorns.. so I am torn..
However The money plant, which thank God my mom never had the guys to bring into our home and let it crawl around the house like it was part of the furniture, just so happened to be a Classic Kenyan phenomenon. I hate to be tribal, but next to the drum coffee table, you could almost guarantee to get a Money Plant at any successful Kyuks hao, or more less wanna be successful Kyuks hao. Albeit a lot of Kenyans thought it would bring luck or was a sign of some good things to come, because we really planted those things around the house and at times it just was nasty. Between the Money Plant and the Crochet table cloths I think living in a small home and growing up in Kenya wasnt that bad :)
