let it leave me like a long breath

okay so the local grocery store has had clay pots for sale in the seasonal aisle for the past several months, and now they're finally getting shifted out and thus on sale for 75% off. which is enough of a discount that the price is comparable to, you know, buying them from a plant store rather than a grocery store. so i got some of them and i'm trying to figure out the order of repottings i need to do, given the pot sizes and which plants need repotting.

the two plants i have that need it the most are both basically handoffs from my mom, who was like "i'm moving i don't want these here you go"; one is an aloe plant that's kinda sunk under the rim of its pot and is gonna be a mess of get out, and also i think at this point like four separate plants, and the other is a sadly neglected corkscrew rush (which are like, water grasses like cattails that can literally sit in standing water constantly and not have a problem) that has not only outgrown its pot, but also, since it's in a pot-in-pot kinda situation, grown out like an inch-thick mat of roots into the containing pot through the drainage holes. so that's gonna be a challenge to get out without damaging.

i guess the plan is to repot the corkscrew rush into a big pot, carefully, and then use its old pots + one of the new big pots to repot the aloe and its likely shards. we'll see how that goes.