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I keep ending up with more plants!
My fiance and I went to the store yesterday to get some shoes for him. While he was trying them on I got bored and wandered off to look at plants. He laughed at me a lot when I came back carrying a huge ornamental banana. I couldn't help it! I like bananas! And my fruiting bananas are sitting there not growing right now, so getting a huge, established banana plant was sort of irresistible. Would have been even better if it was a fruiting one, but I guess you can't have it all.
I nearly got an orchid too, but I've kind of spent more than I should lately on plant stuff. I ordered a whole mess of different kinds of venus fly trap on the internet the other day, though they won't arrive for more than a week. :P
Here's my banana! It's a zebrina, or "blood banana" because of the dark reddish markings on the leaves. (Oops. That's what the tag said, but I just had an expert tell me it's a dwarf cavendish. Which is GOOD, cavendish is a fruiting banana! WOOT!)
And my summer squash seedlings came up just a few days ago! They're just kind of hanging out in the horrible patch of dirt behind our apartment. I'm too lazy and too broke to build it into a proper planting bed, so I'm only planting relatively hardy things there.
Chard seedlings came up just today. I should have planted these ages ago, but I was mucking about with spinach first. I should know by now that spinach is just not worth bothering with, and I should go straight to chard first thing in the spring.
This came out stupidly blurry, for some reason the camera decided to focus on the background, not on the plant. This looks like nothing much, but it is really exciting to me, it's a drosera regia aka. the king sundew, which is fairly rare and difficult to grow, but it's starting to grow for me! Woot!
Also exciting is the little green spear in the front of this picture, that's a pitcher plant that got eaten back to the ground by my cat, and has finally put up a new pitcher! Hopefully in a week or so it will be mature and I can finally find out what kind of pitcher plant it is! The other two pots have my d. regia and my cobra lilies in them.
And just for fun, more pictures of the cobra lilies, because I love them so very much.
I am totally obsessed about plants.
My fiance and I went to the store yesterday to get some shoes for him. While he was trying them on I got bored and wandered off to look at plants. He laughed at me a lot when I came back carrying a huge ornamental banana. I couldn't help it! I like bananas! And my fruiting bananas are sitting there not growing right now, so getting a huge, established banana plant was sort of irresistible. Would have been even better if it was a fruiting one, but I guess you can't have it all.
I nearly got an orchid too, but I've kind of spent more than I should lately on plant stuff. I ordered a whole mess of different kinds of venus fly trap on the internet the other day, though they won't arrive for more than a week. :P
Here's my banana! It's a zebrina, or "blood banana" because of the dark reddish markings on the leaves. (Oops. That's what the tag said, but I just had an expert tell me it's a dwarf cavendish. Which is GOOD, cavendish is a fruiting banana! WOOT!)
And my summer squash seedlings came up just a few days ago! They're just kind of hanging out in the horrible patch of dirt behind our apartment. I'm too lazy and too broke to build it into a proper planting bed, so I'm only planting relatively hardy things there.
Chard seedlings came up just today. I should have planted these ages ago, but I was mucking about with spinach first. I should know by now that spinach is just not worth bothering with, and I should go straight to chard first thing in the spring.
This came out stupidly blurry, for some reason the camera decided to focus on the background, not on the plant. This looks like nothing much, but it is really exciting to me, it's a drosera regia aka. the king sundew, which is fairly rare and difficult to grow, but it's starting to grow for me! Woot!
Also exciting is the little green spear in the front of this picture, that's a pitcher plant that got eaten back to the ground by my cat, and has finally put up a new pitcher! Hopefully in a week or so it will be mature and I can finally find out what kind of pitcher plant it is! The other two pots have my d. regia and my cobra lilies in them.
And just for fun, more pictures of the cobra lilies, because I love them so very much.
I am totally obsessed about plants.
It's a sickness with me, too! I've run out of space in my yard, I had to totally stop buing them for now. I propagate the things with no regard for where I will put them. I give them away to people. I used to give them to customers at Kinko's. 
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