In the ongoing effort to make our apartment feel a little more like home, we recently got some plants to liven up the place. It was a lot of fun walking through all the nurseries in our neighborhood. Instead of cheap plastic containers, most of the plants seem to be potted in hand-formed clay or terracotta pots, and the plant nurseries felt a lot more like gardens than the nurseries back home.
Here’s our one and only flowering plant.
I have no idea what it is called, but I know I have seen them before.
This one on the other hand, is a mystery to me.
We think it might be a pencil plant, although we have no idea. It looks a little scary if you ask me.
While we were plant shopping we picked up a vase from one of the flower shops and I got a few little succulents to make a terrarium. I did not inherit my mother’s green thumb, but I can usually keep succulents and cacti alive, plus won’t the terrarium do 90% of the work?
See the tiny one? It is about the size of a quarter and was hiding in a pot with one of the others (most of the plants had a weed or two sprouting up). Fortunately the only stowaways were plants and not giant bugs. Brandon collected the rocks from the middle of nowhere (which happens to be just down the street if you can believe that) so we cleaned them up and placed them on top.
Anyhow, everything is still alive, so we are off to a good start!
Peace Lily
Looks like e & b’s home to me. The plants look great! And you have artist’s hands–so your fingers and thumbs are many and any colors you wish them to be! Magic fingers!
peace lily, what a wonderful name.