Day 10
I’m becoming a new “plant Mama”. I don’t know how it happened but this year I started getting really into gardening, and now that it’s Winter, “expanded” to houseplants. Never saw that one coming!
I love the calming nature of plants, just like Lisa loves baking. But while Lisa’s baked goods never stay around for very long, our house is slowly turning into a jungle. Someone send help! … or more plants! 😉
I brought home a “String of Pearls” after this photo was taken. When it comes to groovy looking house plants this one has got to be at the top! Do you own any green, living things?
M&L xx
Veggie gardening all year round here in Sunny Florida. Got the tomatoes started. Planted strawberries, radishes, collard greens, a variety of lettuces and should have a pineapple or two before too long showing up. The best part of living in south Florida and is the ability to grow veggies all year round if you are careful and don’t get surprised by a freeze.
I LOVE gardening! Ever since I was a teenage many, many years ago. Indoors and outdoors. Indoors I grow some tropical Sundews and a Utricularia reniformis as well as a few moth orchids, A Dracula orchid called Lotax, Thanksgiving cactuses and Easter cactuses. Outdoors I grow some veggies in summer, kale, collard greens, snap peas and sometimes carrots. Lots of Cosmos flowers and portulaca. I also grow a bunch of Venus flytraps and some Sarracenia pitcher plants.
You grow girl!
My wife enjoys taking care of the plants in the house and the outside gardens. I am more of what needs to be fixed around the house person. We do have a house plant that is very special to me. It is an indoor Weeping Fig tree. My mother gave it to me over 30 years ago for the client area of my photo studio. I have since changed the focus of my business so I could work out of the house. My wife and I decided the tree would be a great addition to our sun room. It is now very special to me because my mother past on 5 years ago. But every day I get to look at this tree my mother gave me years ago and feel some comfort from it.
That’s a very special tree indeed William to remember your mom. Around my parents place are some trees and shrubs that I dug holes for so my mom could plant them when I was a teenager and now they are big health trees. It always reminds me of my mom and our little project together. Very special.
That is a sweet way to remember your mother ♥ My condolences for your loss.
We have/had a lot of different plants in our yard, but right now the only plants in the house are Poinsettias. We recently had a drought that damaged our azaleas. Hopefully they will come back. We have red, white, pink azaleas and various other plants I don’t know what they are. Laurie knows. I just love the azaleas and our Dogwood trees.
And, I can bake an amazing banana pudding with real custard, a Coke-a-cola Cake, and my Chicken Bog is pretty good, too!
“A little more to the right Mona,” is what Lampi Bampi seems to be saying.
Really nice picture of you Mona.
I don’t currently have any green plants, but there is one that was never given back to me that I miss terribly.
It is one that I got after my Moms funeral 34 years ago. Its just a little green plant,affectionately called, “Mama’s Plant”.
Wow I haven’t thought of that in quite awhile!!!
Thank you Mona for bringing back a very special memory!
I hadn’t heard of them so googled it. Latin name is ‘senecio rowleyanus’, named after British botanist Gordon Rowley. The plant is native to South Africa. So now you can impress your friends with your botanical knowledge! As for me I have a lot of grass in my garden which never seems to stop growing.
How can I compare plants with animals? You can have a look at this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm5i53eiMkU
I love plants but I prefer to see this.
Wow, that one looks like a Thomas Kinkade painting come to life Angelo.
Sort of, it’s mostly a typical “wild” English garden
That’s an awesome video Angelo! I’ve seen plants do some amazing things. Like when electrodes are placed on their leaves, and electrical impulses drive a little cart the plan is sitting on, they learn to drive it and move to the sunny side. There were others I saw that also blew me away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J8_QkBtIQ4
That’s all the proof I needed – I’m not crazy for talking to my plants! 😉 Thanks for the videos!
If the plants talk back, on the other hand…
Your love for growing things remind me of some nice living beings in the Shire… and shows if need be, the beauty of your soul, though, to make them grow inside make me think of this.
Last year we started doing a little urban gardening in our neighbourhood. The harvest was about two cucumbers and three tomatoes 😉 We just threw some bulbs of tulips, daffodils and snowdrops in the ground and are waiting for the spring to come…
That’s awesome Mona you are developing a green thumb. Loved seeing the small instagram clip of your garden in the summer. We have a modest small garden around the house just to pretty up the place with some nice colors in the spring and summer.
Mostly the result of raiding the local dollar store where they sell packets of flower seeds.
Half the time I don’t even know what they are, but look kind of pretty like these. 🙂
I went from growing up with no plants and only streets and sidewalks in the city to moving to the suburbs and having over 200 different plant species on my property.
I love the peace and beauty plants reward me with
Once you’re addicted Mona, you keep looking for different cool plants – but being a plant lover is awesome.
Happy for you!
From concrete to jungle – I can imagine how much more peaceful and relaxed that must feel now.
Happy growing ♥
A good picture No I don’t know of green living thinks
No indoor plants but I live on a 720 square metre block near a creek so I have quite a few visitors to my garden. I’m building up my garden slowly to make it even more wildlife friendly. I get blue tongue lizards, frogs, and kookaburras amongst other wildlife. I added a couple of bee hotels recently which seem to have attracted a few guests. So my garden is geared towards attracting wildlife and low maintenance :).
Oh almost forgot the possums. They’re a pain as they eat the new shoots from the plants I’m trying to establish!
I’m not much for plants but I do have a Christmas cactus that not only has survived years of neglect, but ever since I put it on a sufficiently sunny window sill it’s bloomed every year starting a few days before Thanksgiving.
Who’s that in your pocket?
The plants outside live long and healthy without my intervention, thank you very much. Inside it’s a different story. Only succulents seem to survive, and they are very picky as to who their window mate is. ? One agave, was sharing a window with another little guy and they were both doing very poorly. The moment we separated them, the agave flourished by himself like a jungle, and the little guy perked up with his new mates. Who knew plants had personalities!
And I’ve managed so far not to kill my silk plants. ? But the only way I’d have a green thumb would be going at it with a maker.
Just love what you are doing with those plants Mona. I too love house plants but as I live in an apartment in a very warm climate, they don’t survive our extremely hot summers. However, I’m managing to get them to thrive on my balcony. I also have a cherry tomato plant that has been producing well this summer. My balcony is the place to be, all of the day and all of the night.
On a side note to my previous post here:… I had been gifted one time a Fuschia pink rose bush, had it for years until Dad inadvertently murdered it with garden yard tractor, he forgot it was there and ran over it… Whoops… I got another rose bush years later, damn it all, did it again… Lol… Moral here is: Jacki not meant to have her fave all time flowers of Roses because her late Dad killed them by means of Garden/Yard tractor… She just sticks to carnations in her apt and once in awhile treats herself to purple roses bouquet ?????
I don’t have any houseplants, but outdoors there are several garden plots, flowers & vegetables. As for your jungle situation, there’s a book I’ve seen that deals with house jungles, it’s called “Where the Wild Things Are”. There might be some ideas there, and perhaps you could have Lampibampi help with the pruning; you wouldn’t even have to remove the cuttings.
Sorry to say plant’s and I don’t get along well and often come to a sad ending…. The only plants that seem to have ever lived somewhat with success are: OXALIS (look like 3 leaf clovers on steroids-lol) and of course carnations…. We had OXALIS in our home for years before they finally decided to retire to Greener Heavens…. I will buy carnations once in awhile for my apt unit…I’m glad you found your second calling besides music, and glad you don’t have allergies… Besides my nut/seed/oil allergies and other allergies… I’m sensitive/allergic to fresh cut grass vand some plants… Carnations/Roses I’m OK with allergy-wise… In the UK, from what I’ve seen/read and know from others who live there apart from you all, ( I’m meaning family/penfriends) where Gardening seems to be a common hobby/interest that many love to embark upon… Happy Groovy Gardening “MonaGreenThumberess” or “MonaGreenThumbs “??
3 leaf clovers on steroids … haha, that’s spot on! I’m not surprised that out of all plants you own the most purple ones out there 😉
You’re right, gardening is definitely much bigger here in the UK than other places we’ve lived. The mild weather and all that rain makes all the plants super happy … me, not so much 😉
Good luck with your next set of carnations!
Thankyou… Perhaps, I’ll get some Oxalis again and see how long I can keep them going for… You’re right… I dig my Purple flowers/plants??