If only these houseplants could talk.

It¡¯s easy to imagine they¡¯d be screaming their indignation at the wintertime perches we¡¯ve assigned them ¡ª places of painfully low light near some drafty window ¡ª in the inhospitable arid zone that is indoor heating season.

¡°Enough, I¡¯m begging you!¡± And: ¡°Get me out of here!¡±