houseplant clock

I had wanted to use an element of growth to represent time, so my clock is a plant with twelve leaves, each growing depending on the hour (12 hour clock). Every time the clock rolls over from 12, the leaves fade, and the cycle restarts.
If revisited, I would create more of an animated element to the plant (leaves tilting back and forth on a fulcrum, or the leaves changing colour and then falling down to the ground after 12).

void setup () {
  size (500, 600);
}

void draw () {
  background (242, 241, 223);

  fill (222, 217, 197);
  rect (0, 500, 600, 100);
  
  // stem
  stroke (185, 222, 149);
  strokeWeight (2);
  line (300, 500, 300, 100);


  noStroke ();
  fill (209, 99, 77); 
  
  
  beginShape (); // planter pot shape

    vertex (300, 500);
  vertex (200, 500);
  vertex (270, 360);
  vertex (330, 360);


  endShape ();

 // set up time
  int hour24 = hour();
  int hour = hour24 % 12;
  int second = second();
  int minute = minute();

  
  float spacing = 25;

// leaves
  for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
    float distFromStem = i * spacing;
    boolean flip = (i % 2) == 0; // boolean in order to arrange leaves in opp. order

 // @ midnight, leaves fade and reset
    if (hour24 == 0 && minute == 0) {
      float opacity = 1 - (float(second)/59.0); 
      println(opacity);
      fill(185, 222, 149, opacity*255);
      beginShape();
      if (flip == true) { 
        vertex(300, 340 - distFromStem); 
        vertex(320, 350 - distFromStem);
        vertex(320, 335 - distFromStem);
        vertex(300, 340 - distFromStem);
      } else {    
        vertex(300, 340 - distFromStem);
        vertex(280, 350 - distFromStem);
        vertex(280, 335 - distFromStem);
        vertex(300, 340 - distFromStem);
      }
      endShape();
    }

    println(hour);

    if (i <= hour) {

      

      fill (185, 222, 149);

      if (i == hour) {
        int shrink = int(20*(float(minute) / 60.0));  // leaf growth w/ hr   
        beginShape();
        if (flip == true) {
          vertex(300, 340 - distFromStem);
          vertex(300 + shrink, 350 - distFromStem);
          vertex(300 + shrink, 335 - distFromStem);
          vertex(300, 340 - distFromStem);
        } else {    
          vertex(300, 340 - distFromStem);
          vertex(300 - shrink, 350 - distFromStem);
          vertex(300 - shrink, 335 - distFromStem);
          vertex(300, 340 - distFromStem);
        }
        endShape();
      } else {
        beginShape(); //leaf
        if (flip == true) {
          vertex(300, 340 - distFromStem);
          vertex(320, 350 - distFromStem);
          vertex(320, 335 - distFromStem);
          vertex(300, 340 - distFromStem);
        } else {    
          vertex(300, 340 - distFromStem);
          vertex(280, 350 - distFromStem);
          vertex(280, 335 - distFromStem);
          vertex(300, 340 - distFromStem);
        }
      }
      endShape();
    }
  }
}