Spent shamrock

I have a favorite houseplant, a shamrock, that sits in my  dining room window. It's the only plant that I've had for more than five years.  It was the first plant that made me feel successful as a gardener. I could do just about anything  to it and it would still survive. Plus, it is the color of ripe plums.

What's interesting is that I tend to like the flowers more after they've bloomed and fallen from the plant. They get a fragile, papery quality and the stems remind me of raffia.