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Well, so much for consistent blogging, huh? I ended up being out of state and away from my computer since the first of August, but I'm back now, and ready to jump in again.
August 19th's Challenge was "To-Do," and I am very, very excited about what I crossed off my to-do list yesterday!
Jeremy's Uncle Tom and Aunt Donna gave us a container full of plants last week. Now, I know nothing at all about plants, but my heart loves them. So, I decided to do what I do with all plants: give them lots of sunshine and lots of water. After all, if I were a plant, that's what I would want. I placed the container in my front yard which gets about 12 hours of full sun every day, and I watered the container daily.
Then I called my friend LaRene, who is The Plant Whisperer, and I described them to her hoping she would know what they were and how to care for them. I intended to plant them after I found out what they needed. When LaRene couldn't pinpoint them from my phone description, she offered to come over in a few days to get a visual and teach me how to care for them.
She came over yesterday, and much to my dismay, she declared them to be houseplants. She also declared them to be dying from over-crowding, over-sunning, and over-watering. Wet blanket. Since there is no way on God's green earth that any type of plant will survive in my house (trust me, I've tried), I decided to treat them like an annual and plant them in a perpetually shady spot outside my back door. LaRene and I worked together to create a triangular garden bed where grass used to grow, and I planted my five plants. Well, actually, I planted four plants because one of them looks like it's going to be a trailing kind of plant, so I'm looking for a shepherd's hook and a hanging basket to plant it in. Then it will hover over my garden along with a pretty garden flag that Liberty bought me. I'm just looking for a hook and flag pole. Did you know Walmart and Home Depot consider those two items to be seasonal? How rude.
Here is my new little garden. I've decided to name it my TomAndDonna Garden, and I love it. (Be like me and ignore the pathetic-ness of the dying leaves. They didn't like my front yard, but I'm expecting them to perk up after a few days in my back yard.)
(I hope.)
August 19th's Challenge was "To-Do," and I am very, very excited about what I crossed off my to-do list yesterday!
Jeremy's Uncle Tom and Aunt Donna gave us a container full of plants last week. Now, I know nothing at all about plants, but my heart loves them. So, I decided to do what I do with all plants: give them lots of sunshine and lots of water. After all, if I were a plant, that's what I would want. I placed the container in my front yard which gets about 12 hours of full sun every day, and I watered the container daily.
Then I called my friend LaRene, who is The Plant Whisperer, and I described them to her hoping she would know what they were and how to care for them. I intended to plant them after I found out what they needed. When LaRene couldn't pinpoint them from my phone description, she offered to come over in a few days to get a visual and teach me how to care for them.
She came over yesterday, and much to my dismay, she declared them to be houseplants. She also declared them to be dying from over-crowding, over-sunning, and over-watering. Wet blanket. Since there is no way on God's green earth that any type of plant will survive in my house (trust me, I've tried), I decided to treat them like an annual and plant them in a perpetually shady spot outside my back door. LaRene and I worked together to create a triangular garden bed where grass used to grow, and I planted my five plants. Well, actually, I planted four plants because one of them looks like it's going to be a trailing kind of plant, so I'm looking for a shepherd's hook and a hanging basket to plant it in. Then it will hover over my garden along with a pretty garden flag that Liberty bought me. I'm just looking for a hook and flag pole. Did you know Walmart and Home Depot consider those two items to be seasonal? How rude.
Here is my new little garden. I've decided to name it my TomAndDonna Garden, and I love it. (Be like me and ignore the pathetic-ness of the dying leaves. They didn't like my front yard, but I'm expecting them to perk up after a few days in my back yard.)
(I hope.)