apartment-worthy plants

lol you gonna haul that plant to my house on the bus every other weekend?

don't get any ideas about some shared custody shit. i'm not gonna give you money for plant food or new pots every september.

how about i visit you occasionally and say hey to the daisy when i'm there.

That's more what I was thinking :)

did i mention that it doesn't have flowers, just leaves?

well, actually, did i mention that it doesn't have non-shriveled flowers, just leaves?

You did not but that's alright. I don't care what those other people say, I'm gonna love it anyway.

you should transport it home on a bicycle built for two.

:)

i warmed my own heart with that post.

the notion more than the post itself.

i brought the daisy inside and cleaned it up a bit. looks pretty good!

my theory is that plants like a little stress. they try harder and are better for it. keeps em strong, not so "oh bring me every last thing all the time" lazylike.

daisylike

I bought some herbs yesterday: lemon verbena, lemon balm, and pineapple mint. They are all potted together, a fragrant theresome. My guess is they will struggle with indoor life.

Lol theresome! Oy I can't wait for real internets without autotext.

i'm going to miss your autotext.

I'm sure it will crop back up from time to time.

i will hey a kick out of that.

tehersome

Here are my new plants:
http://www.twitpic.com/8osej
Whatta pair!

yay they look so cute and happy!

The herbs started looking droopy and sad so I watered them. Hope this helps!
*developing*

i have hoped that hopeless kind of hope, it usually ends with you cutting your losses instead of your parsley.

ps estela, that's the daisy there on the right, all cleaned up for the changing of hands.

she scrubbed up well, little daisy doolittle.

tru confession: i was a little apprehensive there for a coupla days after all my proclamations of good health on the stoop and then the poor thing.... but all is well now, just look!

(even 'enry lost 'ope for a little while though, didn't he?)

are there lilac trees in the heart of town?
can you hear a lark in any other part of town?
does enchantment pour out of every door?
no, it's just on the stoop where you live!

<3

She seems happy so far! Thankig u, lx!

thankig u, t!

I didn't do anything!

there is good news and bad news.

good
plants are growing! new leaves! increased volume!
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9260.jpg
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9263.jpg

bad
something is attacking daisy :( i think it is a leaf miner of some sort :(
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9262.jpg
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/102_9261.jpg

whatever it is has been busy! poor daisy, she's always been a little bit troubled.

those plants are awfully fluffy, though. good work, tehe.

they are bending towards the window; i have to remember to rotate them.
i hope i can fix this leaf miner issue :(

god, where's linghert when we need him!

i don't know if he would be too useful in this situation as when he found some pests on his flower he threw it away.

Although leafminer injuries are conspicuous, most leafminers produce injuries that have little, if any, effect on plant health.

leafminer injuries. what a world.

little, if any,

I'm proud to be a leaf miner's daughter
I remember well, the well where I drew water
The work we done was hard
At night we'd sleep, cause we were tired
I never thought I'd ever leave Butcher Holler

browsing the freecycle i found an offered redwood sapling. i think that is not apartment-worthy, but i can dream, right? imagine having your very own redwood!!!

i imagined it for a few seconds but now i am imagining something else.

what are you imagining right now?

i am imaging it would block all the sunlight and estela's magic ficus would drop its leaves in dismay.

i was imagining breakfast but now i'm imagining how tsky you would have been if you'd seen the sorry state of my thirsty ficus yesterday.

i think daisy has a bipolar disorder!

this morning, she was pert and happy, basking in the sun.
i went out for 2 hours and when i came home she was all wilted and droopy and oh so sad.
i gave her some water and 30 min later she was all happy again! so odd! the soil was dry around the edges, but still damp in the center! what a finicky little creature!

my formerly healthy cilantro plants look a little bit dead

The jungle corner:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/3758399564_47deed92d4.jpg

AND! One of the tomatoes has a FLOWER!!!:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2615/3758409092_3725ef9c32.jpg

wow nice work!

aw.

Ms. Ivy has taken over the butcher block:
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she certainly has. i'm afraid she is up to no good. i heard she's been having typing lessons. ignore me at your peril.

some, including me, have taken to calling her ms. connivy.

We totally had to move her away from the liquor cabinet, it's true.

The Geranium

When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,
She looked so limp and bedraggled,
So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle,
Or a wizened aster in late September,
I brought her back in again
For a new routine--
Vitamins, water, and whatever
Sustenance seemed sensible
At the time: she'd lived
So long on gin, bobbie pins, half-smoked cigars, dead beer,
Her shriveled petals falling
On the faded carpet, the stale
Steak grease stuck to her fuzzy leaves.
(Dried-out, she creaked like a tulip.)
The things she endured!--
The dumb dames shrieking half the night
Or the two of us, alone, both seedy,
Me breathing booze at her,
She leaning out of her pot toward the window.
Near the end, she seemed almost to hear me--
And that was scary--
So when that snuffling cretin of a maid
Threw her, pot and all, into the trash-can,
I said nothing.
But I sacked the presumptuous hag the next week,
I was that lonely.

--Theodore Roethke

♥♥♥

(so so so wish I'd gone to UW when Roethke was teaching there...)

i wish you had too. also, since we're wishing, that i had as well.

i have a very healthy lavender plant and i bought a mint plant today. i'm going to need container herbs for my yardless house if i get it.

Window box!

My sisters gave me a money tree for my apartment but so far I am still broke :(

I have inherited a plant I think is supposed to live outdoors. What do I do with this?

http://i59.tinypic.com/5ca7g2.jpg

Is that a hydrangea?

Yes!

Maybe you could bonsai it?

I am thinking of turning my "three season porch" into a greenhouse :)

btw my money tree didn't really survive the journey to our new home. it's still here but looking very sad. We even left out in a hotel and weby back for it but I fear it's a lost cause :(