apartment-worthy plants

there are some tomato plants growing along my running path. maybe someone dropped part of a sandwich one day.

i got some ikea basil for 99¢. i think it is like a chia?
it is 1 week old and v cute.

http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/IMG00031-20091010-2316.jpg

my herb pot is kind of like a medusa yin yang. the mint on one side is sad and crunchy and some of it is ok but v dark green. meanwhile the lemon balm is sprouting new leaves like no tomorrow. i don't know how to repot just the lemon balm and bid the mint adieu.

what is that thing on the floor???

it's the table. and it's a finger puppet from peru hah.

hello and please to be welcoming the newest addition to my family
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/utf-8BSU1HMDAwOTctMjAwOTExMTctMTY0O.jpg
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/utf-8BSU1HMDAwOTYtMjAwOTExMTctMTY0M.jpg

oh my, i may have just caught an attempted miner attack! they were still tiny larvae/eggs - not hatched and mining yet, thank goodness! and all on one leaf, which i promptly removed. daisy has just received a botanical insecticide shower.

the basil is sad now but ivy's doing well!

wish i had a microscope.

oh no! i think it might be rust instead :(

RIP daisy

ps this fine creature is looking for a good home
http://i401.photobucket.com/albums/pp95/tza/utf-8BSU1HMDA0MDUtMjAxMDAzMjgtMTc0N.jpg

it looks so triumphant with its devil horns and perky demeanor, what did it do to daisy?

daisy succumbed to some menacing rust, but this fine lady seems to be immune :) very hearty - i forgot to water when i went away for 5 days and she perked right back up as soon as i re-hydrated. she also loves to lean into the light.

she sounds like a villain from a midday movie.

like most neglected housewives, she just needs a little attention to reach her full potential.

she looks like she is drunkly dancing to sisters are doin it for themselves.

oh estela i just had the heartiest of laughs ever
<3

:D

dear jaq,

how is ivy? did she get renamed?

<3, t

I was thinking today I need to put up a pic of Ms. Ivy Hedera - she's getting repotted tomorrow into a fancy chinese cachepot. We'll do a glamour shot!

What a lucky lady!

She's looking smashing:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4572778088_9269abf44c.jpg

gettin a little misty over here! she looks fantastic!!! <3 well done, jaq!

The search begins again. Almost bought a hanging ivy yesterday but it just didn't feel right.

I gave Ms. Ivy Hedera an up-do a few weeks back, with some bamboo chopsticks. So fabulous! Will post pics later.

Oh, you are so good to her! It fills me with a wistful happiness.

i need some houseplants in this place, it's barren

oopsie, I am in nz for two weeks and I forgot to water my ficus before I left.

!

I almost bought a teeny tiny palm but it seemed unreal.

Ms. Ivy, posing with a rose from the garden and bloomless orchid:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4738982447_f73de33a61.jpg

<3

i got two little houseplants yesterday! since i have money now i am starting to make a living room. i got a bookshelf/tv stand and some plants. i am gonna get a tv soon too. i'll take pix of the little plants later. my boss told me a long story about the ficus he had gotten as a hs grad present that just died a couple years ago (he is 48). it was cute.

welcome to the sandbox, little baby plants<3.

harbl, please post pictures of your plants!

oh oops. i still gotta charge the camera. i'm so behind on all the stuff i want to do.

Little Ms. Ivy got too big for the cachepot:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6014/6009559335_2b5d0efaae.jpg

oh, i am so happy to see her so healthy :)

lol you guys talking about daisy and ivy on the main board

lol, i couldn't resist.

it's utterly opaque and wonderfully so <3

:)

I saw so many daisies at the store the other day but I couldn't bring myself to replace the REAL daisy.

i always think about daisy when i see daisies.

aw.

Ms. Ivy has taken over the butcher block:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7109/7502289690_8cfa990c32.jpg

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.