I think you have the beginnings of an idea here - in fact, I spent some part of the very littel time I had around this challenge trying to get something similar, though with branches coming out of walls. So the basis of the shot is, I think, a winner. One could nit-pick about whether or not those shoots constitute a branch, but I think that's best left to the dictionary-obsessives that lurk around the challenge description page.
I can't say you've even begun to suceed with the shot, however. The placing of the shoots in frame is the only point in this shot's favour; at least you've avoided the dead-centre madness. First rreactions are important, not only here where the voting is generally so very fast, and the first impression here is that the shoots are out of foucs. My next thought is - why? And I can't, however I stretch my mind, find a reason for that, artistically. That feeling is only slightly relieved by the follow-up observation that it would be difficult to declare that the ground is focus either.
It's difficult to say much more - it has a quality of anti-photography about it - in that it's actually quite difficult to bring one's attention to the plant, and prevent the eye from drifting through the melancholy of the detritus that surrounds it: one os constantly drawn to the colour, and thrown off by the impossibility of finding a place to fix the eye. In that sense it has a form of message - but the lack of apparent control in the tonality and exposure of the background, and the way the fine detial is absent throughout, makes it hard to believe that's a deliberate choice.
Is it branch or weed among the uninteresting mulch?
The angle is odd--seems like the ground is tipped unnaturally.
A bit over-bright, as well--seems like a levels adjustment could have helped.
Focus here is great on the ground, but not on the plant, and I think that it would work much better the other way around. Nice composition and idea though.
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