#my plants
Herbs for a friend, feat. basil, purple basil, rosemary, and mint
Now, in addition to my tomatoes, I have a bit of a Mediterranean garden going on.
Mom is visiting for my birthday and she encouraged me to get some new plants when we went to grab soil and pots.
So we’ve got green bell peppers, Italian oregano, green and purple basils, and rosemary going now. My porch may still look a little wild, but it’ll at least smell and taste good.
Bustelo and Bodega
You can take the boy out of the bronx, but you cant take the bronx out of the boy
DRAGON PLANT DRAGON PLANT
A mix of crassula and sedum stragglers that I’m trying to revive after a lengthy period of restarting their root growth.
Some pups I isolated into a little pot.
And my favorite, in the bright green pot. I think once upon a time I had a positive ID for it, but at this point I just know it as pretty baby.
It was plant moving day, and I’m pleased with how it turned out.
I’ll be posting more pics of the individual plants, but everyone looks so pretty and happy
Spent the morning splitting all these guys up and giving them their own homes
I’ll be honest and I can only positively ID the bear paw kalanchoe (small fuzzy guys with little brown spots). I’m psure, though, that the spiky one with reddish edges is a crassula of some kind, and the rounder one is sedum. I think they all started as fallen leaves taken from garden store displays, so I dont know that I ever actually had the right info on them, if I ever did.
(Pro tip: if you’re broke/cheap, but live near the big guys like a Lowe’s, Home Depot, or anything like that, you can often find fallen leaves all over the place. The leaves are great for starting a plant from propagation. If you’re feeling less risky, I’ve heard from a lot of people that you can haggle over the price of a dying plant, if you’re interested in a challenge. Dying plants may sometimes be too far gone, but you can usually pull off a healthy amount of leaves to start from, and it usually still works out to being cheaper than buying the little 1" starter/filler babies)
Ladder garden!
(Probably not the final home of the one underneath, but I wanted to get it closer to the light and give the shoots a chance to get more light)
Bloomin gang
Sometimes a plant stand is just a weird statue of a cherub riding a fish and you put a spider plant that is a clone of a spider plant owned by Albert Einstein which is coincidentally the only spider plant I haven’t killed
Miscellaneous ‘not meant to be planters’ planters. All definitely following the same theme. No outliers
The concept of turning an old croc pot into a planter….. revolutionary
I harvested my first strawberry this morning and planted my bedding annuals and have two orchids blooming inside.
Behold and beware! The haunted geometric air plant is on the loose! It’s extra spooky for me because math was my worst subject.
Ophelia Birkinstock is being weird. I’m thinking she could be reverting? Looks cool though.
A Devastating Update: My sweet baby, Fight Shrub , has taken a dramatic turn. This is 100% my bad. I know exactly how I went wrong. I didn’t mean to, but good intentions won’t bring her leaves back. She is not dead to rights, but she has lost 75% of her leaves.
Experimenting With Plants
Idk if this is controversial or not, and I have no idea if it will work for you. I’m just saying what I did when I wanted my African violet to bloom again.
They say to keep the soil evenly moist, but I’ve also read that stress can encourage blooming. So I took a shot in the dark and started letting it dry out. I never water until it’s bone dry.
I like the results so far; I hope they last.
Not Your Average Pot
I know they’re not wacky or crazy or genital-shaped, but I’m pretty fond of the color scheme I’ve managed to pull together in my bathroom. Now maybe a bunch of blue plants so the can match too…
The Newbie
I’ve actually slowed down my plant shopping considerably, and I think this is still my most recent plant purchase. Still haven’t given it a personal name. Suggestions are encouraged!
Prayer Plant
Cousins don’t always resemble one another so much. My red vein Maranta, Fight Shrub, looks nothing like her cousin Carlisle(Calathea lancifolia).
They bond over yoga every day. ♀️♂️
Lithops are coming along nicely!
Afternoon sunshine on the windowsill.
I love the ways these flowers sparkle in the sunshine ✨
She’s a little bit brown but still absolutely stunning.
More pictures of my Saint Paulina’s flowers
Love the way the sunlight hits this plant
Stone plant update: Looks like one of my lithops splitting into two! There will be four in that pot soon :)
I’ve been away for three weeks and everyone is still alive!
New flowers on the way!
Most of the yellow daffs around are starting to fade but these lovely Narcissus have just come up!
Big Björk is certainly living up to her name, she’s so tall!
Came home to some flowers from Matilda :)
More early morning sunshine, ft. Björk
