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Ace has figured out that if they send me a "$5 off your next purchase of $20" coupon every month, chances are good that I will use it to buy a home improvement item that I need and make up the difference in houseplants. And that's what happened today.
The pothos and nephthytis are the new additions, along with their pots. The peperomioides and monstera have been around for awhile.
The resurgent popularity of houseplants doesn't just make it easier for me to buy new plants, I also benefit from the other people who buy them but don't know how to take care of them. Case in point: the poor specimen I carted home the morning of the
lunar eclipse. Here it is in the middle.
And for as pitiful as it looks now, it was in far worse shape when I adopted it. I'm pretty confident I'll be able to nurse it back to full health. So there's a $40 plant in a $20 pot, all because someone didn't give it enough light and then tried to fix it by giving it too much water.
Incidentally, the elephant ear to the left joined the household a year ago, and it consisted solely of two wilting, browned leaves by the time its previous owner abandoned it by the dumpster (price tag on this one: $69.99). As you can see, it's now flourishing. The plant to the far right, a dieffenbachia, was another dumpster rescue from a few months ago. It's been dormant for some time but has started to put out new growth in the last week or so, so persistence is paying off.
これで以上です。
The pothos and nephthytis are the new additions, along with their pots. The peperomioides and monstera have been around for awhile.
The resurgent popularity of houseplants doesn't just make it easier for me to buy new plants, I also benefit from the other people who buy them but don't know how to take care of them. Case in point: the poor specimen I carted home the morning of the
lunar eclipse. Here it is in the middle.
And for as pitiful as it looks now, it was in far worse shape when I adopted it. I'm pretty confident I'll be able to nurse it back to full health. So there's a $40 plant in a $20 pot, all because someone didn't give it enough light and then tried to fix it by giving it too much water.
Incidentally, the elephant ear to the left joined the household a year ago, and it consisted solely of two wilting, browned leaves by the time its previous owner abandoned it by the dumpster (price tag on this one: $69.99). As you can see, it's now flourishing. The plant to the far right, a dieffenbachia, was another dumpster rescue from a few months ago. It's been dormant for some time but has started to put out new growth in the last week or so, so persistence is paying off.
これで以上です。