Remember when I mentioned in my "Décor Options" post about not having a green thumb and that is why I use planting pots as décor pieces and not plant pieces well I have some pictures to prove that statement wrong!
Look at those Beauties!
Again bringing in the mason jar decoration piece idea to bring a room together with surrounding options and look at that pretty pink bundle hanging above creating a cozy natural feel. I would say I have done well keeping these alive and vibrant.
Not!
Of course I am kidding, these are artificial and probably the only reason they are still alive and sticking around.
😑😳😕
My green thumb tends to do this...
And that is just within a week or two, but to my defense I did not place them in sun directly, may be if I did that they would be alive much longer...but who knows.
In all seriousness though, I am aware my lack of green thumb comes to my lack of memory. I forget to check on them and I forget to water them. Setting alarms and daily reminders does tend to help and has helped me come a long ways from having no green thumb to possibly a beginner baby's green thumb...still a work in progress, but just look below.
Let me tell you the story behind each shall I?
First off: Food, an essential.
I have started growing green onion in the window seal after seeing online as a planting hack showing you can reuse the ends of them when cutting off the part you use to cook with. All you have to do is save the white part just enough, place it in a small cup of water and let it set a few weeks, after that roots will begin to form as new greenery grows from the top, that is when you transfer it to a pot with potting soil and let it keep growing until you need to cook with more. The best thing is it is simple and easy and the rooted bottom can be reused. Or so far it has shown it can be. Once cutting off some from the top it continues growing for more to be used. Then we made a garden in which potatoes, blueberries, and strawberries were planted, but due to I only have a picture of strawberries you can imagine nothing else grew, but the strawberries. I was still very proud of them even it they were tiny and only these three. It felt awesome to be able to grow something like that from a tiny seed and it was still rather juicy and tasty.
Secondly: Flowers
The picture with the tiny pink flowers is near an old willowed out tree in our front yard. It used to have poison ivy, thorns, and brush all around it, but me and my husband cleared this out one weekend then one day me and my mom placed a rock barrier around it on top of black planting tarp followed by much planting soil. Afterwards I scattered so much wild flower seeds of all kinds throughout the soil hoping any of it would grow trying to bring life around this hollowed tree once more. After several days of watering and sun finally buds were popping up throughout. Now flowers grow constantly. There have been fall and winter buds and of all colors. Gives new meaning to beauty. Then in the backyard the previous homeowners had planted one type of Canna, or Canna Lilies, that are very difficult to kill and grow back each year in large groups growing taller and reproducing more until eventually flowers bloom on top. After creating a small rock, bricked, path I replanted some of the Canna bulbs intermixed with more of a similar type I found just different colors. The maroon leaf red flower Canna was what was there before and the greener leaved orange cannas were what was added creating a neat barrier along the path as they fully grow almost in even height to the roof. Like i said each year they produce more and more causing me to dig up several extra bulbs and dispersing them throughout different parts of the yard. I even gave some away to relatives such as my mom who has planted them in her backyard and in which they grew as tall as her fence creating more of a barrier from neighbors.
Lastly: Ivy
Now I know Ivy is a plant and may develop flowers, but not 100% sure of that due to I am no where near a reflecting horticulturalist, but I am giving it a category of its own due to variety of characteristics. I have been told Ivy is very hard to kill, or at least by my in-laws. In turn I told them I would find a way to do so, but they insisted I take cuttings from theirs anyways and try. My Mother-In-Law has gorgeous lush lively ivy. It just takes over on her porch. She has several pots of it, hanging, sitting, running down her rails and just about each year she has to trim it to keep it growing and her trimmings can be taken and used to be rooted and make more. One year she did this for me and I did like I was advised put in water let roots grow then plant and I did. Well that winter they died. Apparently I did not bring them in soon enough and they froze, again hard to do. Normally they live if you bring them in later of leave them out in cold for a bit, but I guess I was wrong or it was just my non green thumb acting up again, and yet this year she still gave me more trimmings, a lot more at that to try again. As pictured showing one small pot of trimmings but not pictured one other pot and to be honest we started out with like 6 pots which has turned to 2, and not trying to be to discouraged we were told not all the trimmings would live, but that many? Come on....anyways they have not sprouted any roots yet those that have lived so who knows if these will even make it to a pot this year...guess we will see.
So now if my non baby green thumb can do what is photo'd above imagine what yours can do!
Have you ever tried to grow anything from a seed?
Nurture it, tend to it, care for it?
May be your green thumb is like mine, may be it isn't.
Whichever it is, I hope you try it and find out!
Comments