Plant Life

Notice anything peculiar about this picture...? {Hint, it has to do with the bird.}

That's supposed to be an aloe vera plant. The very same one I tried to kill many years ago. I brought it with us from Michigan when we moved back out to Minnesota 7-plus years ago. It was in our basement in a back room up on top of a bunch of stuff for years and years when we built this house.

A back room that had no windows.

And, prior to that, I had it in a little storage room in our rental that also had no windows.

About a year ago, give or take, I decided to repot it and broke off the top section that was miraculously green in spite of a very long tough brown stem growing from the very dry soil in its pot.

Well... I forgot to harden off the end/root before repotting it in fresh soil. And now there is only one shoot growing... if you can call it growing. It's far from thriving. I just keep watering it occasionally (occasionally being the operative word here... meaning every month or so) and for some reason it just isn't dying.

I suspect this plant has super powers.

I love plants.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to have the green thumb to go with that love.

{I like this one. It pretty much died the first week I had it but miraculously revived itself in spite of the fact that I pretty much drowned it.}

Succulents are some of my favorites and these ones could be doing a whole lot better but they're also hardy enough that they haven't died in all the time I've had them.

Plants that refuse to die are good.

Comments

[Vicky M]

I *LOVE* your plants!! They brought a smile to my face when I saw them!! (:

[Annu]

I wish I had a green thumb to go with my love of plants too...I just go to my mom's to enjoy them. I seem to kill all my indoor ones.

[Lynn]

thanks for the green pictures to brighten up a very cold (but not as cold as you I think!) day!
We have quite a few plants but it is my husband who keeps them going and I only get to water them once a week!