Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Forgot to introduce my LITHOPS

Good morning everyone!
I realised in the previous post I hadn't properly introduced my newest and weirdest plant. My mum bought me these as a gift from the plant shop on Division Street, I've been wanting some for ages.
Firstly though can we just appreciate the amazing rate in which my monstera is getting new leaves?? Two this week! I'm so in love with her beauty!


Anyways ad I was saying, here's the lithops! Behind is my second attempt at looking after a string of hearts and it's going very well. Now I know only to spray every other day and water only once a fortnight.

Don't the lithops look like weird stone bums or teeth though? I love them!


Also I wanted to share this beauty aa it had lost all but five of its leaves a few months ago and was in the brink of death, a new pot and more water helped out blossom into the fuller leafed beauty it is now.


Wednesday, July 25, 2018

How's everyone doing?

I removed all the plants from the windowsills so as to clean the shelves and after setting most of them on the table, I realised I'd not updated the blog in a while and that this was a perfect opportunity.
I've had a few new additions to the family, including a beautiful maranta. Next on the list is a fly trap as this weather sure is attracted loads of the pesky critters and I'd rather do it humanely and add to my collection in the process!


Family photo!

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Hellooo new maranta!

Babies on their freshly polished shelf 

Mini terrerium progress!


Also, I know a fair few of them are due an upgraded pot as they're getting too big! This cactus however has me stumped..he keeps pulling off his arms! I'm hoping he is just trying to propagate, any expert advice? For now I'm adding a lot of the propagated babies to the terrarium for incubating under the watchful eye of Yoda and r2d2.


Pre-cleaning the shelves. What's going on with this guy?
Plenty of new leaves from my beautiful monstera!