apartment-worthy plants

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.

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 :(