More Plants I Don't Need But Want

I got some more plants. I got two new forms of arrowhead plants from Anwalt. They look awesome. I went with Cam and I had not seen the dark shade before and we got one each. I also got some small African Masks plants from Home Depot with CK because the large one I got about a month ago started dying real fast. I tried to save it and right now as I look at it there is one large leaf left. I hope that starting fresh and small I can keep them alive. I also got a pathos and neon pathos and combined them after one of my favorite people did it with plants I gave her a while ago. I started a small one myself but wanted a large one and now I have it.

More Plants And New Shelf

I got some more plants! My friend Koko gave me two new cuttings. A ripple jade (Crassula arborescens undulatifolia) that looks great. I have had jades before but not this kind and have not seen this kind before. I hope it gets healthy and bushy. She also gave me a whale fin snake plant (Sansevieria Masoniana). I have plenty of snake plants in different types but have not had this one before. I am sure I'll be okay taking care of it. If you kill a snake plant something is wrong with you. I also got a haworthia cooperi from Anawalt that I always just call a Kryptonite plant. I had one of these before and did not take care of it well. This was back in the bad draining and over-watering period of my plant care.

I also got some shelves from Anawalt and put them up yesterday. I bought the wrong sized screws so I took the ones that I had with my plant wall and switched them out. It worked. I placed my tomato plants up there so they get a lot of light during the day. They are growing great. I have one more shelf but will wait till I get more screws and figure out where I want to place it.

New Plants And Crazy Dragon Fruit

I got some more plants! Yeah. I have over ninety now and am trying to figure out where to even display them at this point. I got a Xanadu Philodendron from Anawalt. That place is amazing for plants. I also got some tomato plants.

Snake Plant Cuttings

I finally worked up the nerve to get some snake plant cuttings the other day. I have had this snake plant for a couple of years and when I first got it thought I was being cute and put it in a triangle basket on my wall. I wondered why after so long there was no change in it. Eventually I took it out and saw it was crammed. The roots were a mess. I know they like to have some cramming going on but it was bad. I took it out and potted it properly and the thing went out of control growing.

I took two cuttings from it and there are about eight left in there that I'm gonna leave alone unless one of my friends as for it. I have three other pots with thicker snake plants of the same type but want to eventually get those ones that are darker and get all tall.

New Ficus Elastica Ruby Plant

I got this new ficus elastica ruby plant at Trader Joe's a couple days ago. I did not plan on getting another plant but saw it and wanted it. It was just over five bucks. It did not have its name on it so Sarah suggested a plant group and was able to find its name. I added some perlite and mosquito bits because I saw it had some friends inside. Seems like it should be easy to take care of. I just gotta find out where to put the thing. I have over 80 plants!

New Birthday Plant

A few days ago my best friend got me a Dracaena Angolensis plant also known as an African Spear plant. I have seen these before and love the way they look but never thought to get one for myself. From what I've read they are not difficult to take care of and even grow a crazy ass flower. I have already watered it once and put it in a draining pot. It is nuts how when you get plants as gifts the pots do not drain. That is something I learned years ago after thinking plants just kinda die because they are in pots.

New Plant And Gnat Killing

A few weeks ago I got some dirt for my plants and being a lazy ass did not bake my dirt. Yes, I bake dirt. Half an hour, let it cool, and use it. It kills whatever may be living in it. I also add some cinnamon. Anyhoot, I didn't bake it and a few days later started being assaulted by gnats. For weeks I have put off buying mosquito bits even when I had the chance to. Well today I bought some and repotted some plants as well as bought a new one because it was cute.

This is an Njoy pothos (Epipremnum aureum). I saw it at Anawalt and had to get it. I have not had this type of pathos/pothos and like these kinda of plants because they grow. I know it sounds weird but I like plants that change and don't grow slowly even though I do have a few of those.

New Big Ass Congo Plant

I got this big ass Philodendron Congo plant from my friend and her husband. She says they moved it outside and within two days the leaves got a tan and this is the result. She gave it to me and I was gonna just cut off the burnt leaves but sites said that it would shock the plant so for now they stay. There is already a new one growing. I have seen large versions of this and I am hoping this sticks around to get to that point. I will be buying a new pot this weekend for it.

Tiny Paintings Big Plant

I got some canvas from CK and some more paint from this shop on La Cienega that I have passed literally hundreds of times but never went into. Mostly because I am usually on a bus or car but this time I was taking the Shoelace Express and decided to go inside. I got this paint set and used the last of my Floetrol. I'll be buying more next week as well as some Perler beads for some designs I wanna try.

Here is my creeping Charlie plant which is nuts and out of control. I have a lot of cuttings and have given them as gifts. I gave someone a tiny one that went out of control and wanted one myself. I split it from the inch plant you see in the picture on the left and the thing went crazy. I love how big it is and want to see how long it can get. I dump a huge cup of water in it every few days, let it drain, and it just keeps on going.

More Plants And Paint

A few days ago I got some more plants from Anawalt. My wall was getting too full of succulents and I like to watch plants grow and most succulents just do not. After one of mine kicked the bucket I had three open spaces on my wall and filled them with two neon pathos and one called schefflera variegata. I love the way they look and they really make my wall stand out more.

Terrarium Time

Guess who got another hobby? Yeah. This guy. I made my first actual terrarium at my friends library a couple weeks back and have wanted to make more since. I tried to get activated charcoal last week but Home Depot lies about what is in stock. I ended up ordering it on Amazon and got a bag for about six bucks. This morning I went to Anawalt and was able to get rocks, sand, cactus soil, and five plants for less than $30. This is a cheap hobby which I am all for. I also saw that they have the charcoal there.

Terrarium Time

I went to the library where they were having an event where we were shown one of the many ways to make a terrarium. By the way, be prepared to see more of these because this was so fun and easy to make. And, yes. I said this was at the library. Libraries have a ton of great events. I missed a plant swap a few days before this event.

Plants And Lack Of Inspriation

I bought a fern from Trader Joe's a few days ago for a few dollars. I love how healthy it looks and hope that I can keep it living long. I have not had luck with these things and I think its mostly from drowning them in the past.

Plants And Perlers

Last week I finally put my Streets Of Rage 2 Perler beads on the wall. The original idea was to make a big mural of some sort until I realized how big that would actually have to be and abandoned that idea. I also put an old Terminator design on an acrylic pouring that was just laying around. I also finally separated two of my plants that were growing in one pot when I first got them. They are both doing fine. But I am not. I have been miserable.

Getting Carried Away

You know how hard I am struggling to not head to the Hollywood Farmers Market to get some more plants to turn into kokedama? I made some more today and plan to make a few more tomorrow. I love these weird ass things and need to start giving them as gifts before my place is overrun. I have started hanging them on my wall.

Making My Own Kokedama

A few months ago my friend gave me a plant that was wrapped in a kokedama. I had not seen one of these before and the damn thing blew my mind. I went to Anawalt this morning to get some moss and dirt for it as well as making a sad attempt at a terrarium. I'm gonna have to wait till next month when I go to the library and learn how to make one of those properly. But the kokedama was relatively easy. I changed up the technique a bit since I found like three or four ways to do it online and made one.

I liked the way it came out so I made another and thought about heading out to get some twine. Then I remembered that I have a bunch of twine hangers and that I could just unravel them. I did that and made the second one.

People make these to hang and do all kinda stuff. Mine are sitting in the kitchen for now chilling until I figure out how I am gonna display them somewhere else. I like the way these look and hope to get better at it as time goes on.

I made a few more this morning. I really want to get better at twine. Hoping that the succulent will do well in the kokedama.

More Plants For My Jungle Apartment

Cam gave me some Mother Of A Thousand plants and the first she gave me is triple its size in less than a month. The smaller ones are doing well too. I also got a tropical plant. I had this one a few weeks ago and did everything wrong. Not enough water and too much sun. I also got a weird ass succulent from Trader Joe's. Their plants are very good if you know what you are doing. I used to drown the poor things. I also got a rubber plant from the farmers market in Hollywood.

The Apartment Jungle Grows

I am rocking so many plants in my place right now. One of the best things about it is that I am now at a point to where I can propagate them and give them as gifts for folks. Last week I received some plant hangers that I ordered which gave me both the ability to decorate my walls as well as clear off my big ass shelf.

Too Many Plants? (Update)

Nah. Not enough room for all the plants I would like to own is more like it. I ordered some hangers because my three shelves are now crowded and some of them are not getting as much light as I'd want them to have. So next week some will be migrating to the windows and on the walls. I have had some plants die over the last few weeks. They were ones I owned years ago and reminded me that some plants just do not do well in my place.

More New Plants

Yesterday Cam and I headed to Burbank and got some more plants from Lucy. I love her plants. I repotted most of them and was afraid that I would need some more dirt or perlite but ended up repotting older plants, moved some stuff around, and everything worked out fine. I baked the old dirt because gnats are real in these streets, and finished everything up. One of the plants is a plumeria which I hope does well because the full versions of them look great. Got flowers and everything. I also got a dragon fruit. I don't think my body is ready for it. I thought it just had the same name as the fruit but it turns out that it is the same thing. I am making sure it stays stable so it gets big and I can eat some crazy ass fruit I've never had. I also have a regular aloe which I hope does well. There is also the strange one in the middle that has already stabbed me a couple times because I did not respect its hussle.