You have to be pretty sturdy, from a houseplant standpoint, to make it in our house. I appreciate the plants that begin to go limp when they need a drink. I notice, usually, and water them. The plants that are stoic and keep trying to stay healthy/healthyish looking, even when they’re water-starved, often just keel over when they can’t take it any more.
Recently, I’ve been trying to do better at plant care. Everything outside is looking really good. A couple of things inside are making it. A couple of things inside are not making it.
Wednesday, I made a visit to the houseplant department at Lowe’s, to replace some things that, well, have gone on to the land of compost.
I have a nice little dish garden that has three plants. I typically need to replace one every now and then, because sometimes a plant outgrows the space. Or, shrivels up. Here’s what I found to choose from.
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- The folks at Lowe’s (or at least the nurseries that stock their houseplant area) provide nice labels that give me information like what their illumination needs are. The common name and the scientific names are included. For most of them.
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- This was a little bit sad. It’s rather sweet that “Friends call me Beautiful Home Decor.” But pretty sad that “My full name is ‘Houseplant.'”
I went with the Royal Hustler Ivy.
I also have a couple of good-sized baskets sitting on chairs in the living room. One of them has a dead plant in it. The other one has a couple of leggy, sad, barely alive plants. I tossed out the dead plant, along with it’s container and the basket, which had a very marginalized bottom to it.
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- This is a brand new beautiful plant, which came in a self-watering container. I do have to put water in the container, but there’s a smaller container inside that has a wick to take water up into the soil.
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- And there’s this nice, new green plant. I did put it in the container that had those two leggy plants with lengthy stems. They seem to be integrating pretty well.
Last summer I brought inside a dish garden that I didn’t think would make it through the winter. I put it on a table by a window, and it did well there. It did so well that I’ve left it there, and I think it’ll stay there, all green and pretty. And still alive.
This day belongs to the Lord! Let’s celebrate and be glad today.
Psalm 118:24 (Contemporary English Version)
It’s Fun with Friends time again, so I’ll be spending time with kids at church, doing some art.
Peter will be coming soon for a visit, and Kevin will be coming by, too, on his way to a ComicCon.
All the plants outside seem to be doing well/staying alive.
I’ve got lots and lots to be glad for.