Where you goin', sightseer pig?

More plant pictures!

Just a few today, I bought a couple more plants while at Walmart yesterday (I CAN'T SAY NO), here they are!


A pretty money tree, and only $2! How could I say no? (Answer: I can't.) I'm really on this natural colour pot with colourful saucer thing right now. I will have to go to the discount store a THIRD time to pick up even more of these! I have used up all that I've bought on my last two trips.


Not a new plant, but I just noticed today that my shamrock plant has a little flower!


I had to trim some dying stuff off the poor schefflera and then re-stake it to hold up the rest, I'm hoping this one will come back! Beside it is the new arrowhead plant I got along with the others yesterday.


Another not-new plant, but doesn't the christmas cactus look cute in it's new green pot and blue saucer? There used to be three stems, one died and I'm still not sure why, but the other two are doing great!

Well that's all for now, stay tuned for more fun, including moving all of these plants to a new house!

Last one for today!

I think I will call it a day, this will be the 11th post in the Snowy St. Patty's Day Post Extravaganza(tm)!, and I think I'm all posted out for today. To finish off here are the newest houseplants to the family, a peperomia and a very sickly schefflera that I couldn't help but rescue from Walmart. Aren't they cute in their matching biopots and colourful saucers? I think I have a houseplant problem!

Magnets.

In this house, you best be liking refrigerator magnets.

A break from Pictures Of Houseplants.

Now time for a couple of random pictures of my house! I took these earlier while wandering around with the camera.


I call this one "The Hallway, with Keys."


And this one is "Blue Bathroom."

Deiffenbachia is still growing!

Remember the post from earlier showing how much my deiffenbachia had grown? Well here are a couple of pictures of it today! Look at it go!

BUTT PLANTS!

For the next installment in the Snowy St. Patty's Day Post Extravaganza(tm)!, here's a few pictures of the fabled butt plants! Aren't they wierd? They are so wierd! I guess how they work is each year a single new pair of leaves (the butt) emerges from between the old pair and the old pair slowly shrivel up and die and then the cycle goes on. Hmm!

The Amazing $5 Corn Plant!

Continuing with the Snowy St. Patty's Day Post Extravaganza(tm)!, and the emerging theme of Pictures Of My Houseplants, here is a little picture and story of the $5 corn plant, because I can't leave a plant behind! We were at Home Depot the other day as we do sometimes, and they had a sale of large houseplants for $10. Lots of dracaena, which we already have quite a few of, and a few dieffenbachia which we also have a couple of already. There was also this corn plant, which was looking very scraggly and brown and sad. When we asked the lady if it was $10 as well, she answered that she would give it to us for $5 because no one wanted it and it was pretty sad looking. Sold! I took it home, cut off all the brown stuff, cleaned it up and put it in it's temporary home in an old dutch oven (temporary because we are moving soon so I will repot it at the new house, and I want to give it some time to recover before replanting it), sat it on a box in front of the window to get some light and look at how nice it looks! I forgot to take a "before" picture but I think it's looking pretty good!

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Here are some shamrocks for you!

Wee succulents!

Aren't these wee succulents adorable? I got them at the grocery store as well in a multipack that included... butt plants! In case you were wondering the ones I started from seed a while ago didn't work because I kinda forgot about them and they dried up. But I got a couple of fully grown ones that I will post later on today as part of the Snowy St. Patty's Day Post Extravaganza(tm)!

Pothos

Isn't this lime green Pothos pretty? We bought it at the grocery store (instead of groceries...) and it's Craig's favourite houseplant!

Finally my deiffenbachia is growing!

Soooo remember a long time ago in November I posted how I had a deiffenbachia leaf cutting I was determined to root, and it was supposed to take forever this way but I was being patient because the leaf looked healthy, and it had already been two months with nothing happening? Well...



Finally after *7 MONTHS* some action is happening! The tip of that leaf that is emerging used to be level with the small open leaf! The white ring near the tip of the opening leaf was at the base of the small leaf FOREVER and I thought nothing would ever happen and it is finally showing some signs of life! It has actually opened a lot more since this picture was taken but I need to go take a more recent picture to show. It must've been saving up energy forever to get that leaf growing. Neat!

Snow Day!

It is very snowy and cold and grey out today, my original plan was to go shopping at the discount store (I LOVE THAT PLACE) but I think times like these call for pyjamas and movies! The four car pileup I passed on the way home from dropping Craig off (on the road I had previously been on, ack!) further confirmed that plan! Starting off with Mrs. Doubtfire, to be totally honest I will probably watch it several times because it is my FAVOURITE movie. I also have a bit of a backlog of pictures so I will probably make a few more posts along the way! To start, here is a picture of the local neighbourhood wildlife (giant magpies and very brash squirrels) eating some bread I threw onto the side yard for them!