AuburnChick's Adventures

The last few years, I’ve gotten keenly interested in having houseplants.

It all started when Chicky’s best friend brought her a lily plant way back when she was in high school and had torn her ACL playing soccer.

We kept that plant alive for years and years.

We currently have a lily plant in our home, but I don’t think it’s the same one. I think someone at the school I taught at in Florida gave it to me.

I made the Mr. bring it to our new house when he retired and came home for good (he went back and forth for a few months while so he could facilitate the rapid of our home post-Hurricane Michael).

He grumped about the plant too, let me tell you. Lillies are not his favorite because they only bloom once a year – right around Easter.

Here she is in all of her glory this year . . .

The natural lighting in our home has done wonders for my plants. We have a lot of windows – a requirement I have whenever we buy a new house. My plants are thriving!

We bought this little baby two or three years ago. It was a tiny thing that I kept in my kitchen window for a long time because for some reason, floundering plants make miraculous recoveries in that exact spot.

This is the evening light. The morning light is perfection.

Let how pretty she is now.

Once this little one gained some ground, I moved her to my dining room table. She’s not mad about it at all.

The plant you see below was on its last legs not too many months ago.

I moved her to my dining room and let the magical sunshine do its thing.

My aloe is doing very well, thank goodness because I am accident-prone and frequently in need of the medicinal balm hidden inside of its spiky arms.

I don’t know the name of the next plant, but I noticed that it’s not doing well, so I moved it from its location beside my fireplace and put it in the dining room. Maybe the other plants can whisper sweet nothings to help build her up.

I love spider plants. They are hardy and hardly ever require water. I separated the one plant I had into two pots. This one is loving life.

We have some outside plants that are doing well.

Here are my hostas, which we planted last year.

That flower bed is full of clay, so digging the holes was beastly. I had to supplement with a lot of garden soil.

We bought two varieties.

We thought they’d died a slow death late-summer/early Fall, but look how nicely they’ve come back!

A couple of them even have flowers! I am so excited!

This one is peeking through . . .

My front flower beds are awash in color.

This is the fourth year with our ice plants. They open up beautifully in the bright sun.

The next photo is a zinnia, I think. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

It’s been a stubborn little thing. We originally planted a lot more of these, but this is the only one left. We look forward to seeing it bloom each year.

My knockout roses are beautiful. They’ve grown a lot since we planted them five years ago.

Our back yard doesn’t have much. I stuck my Earth boxes in my flower beds a couple of years ago because I had nowhere else to put them.

My strawberries came back this year and are doing well. This is the only edible plant I have this year because of the shoulder surgery I’m still recovering from. I knew I wouldn’t have the strength to plant my usual collection of tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash.

Do you have a green thumb? What are some of your favorite flowers to plant?

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