Soberwolf

Ok js you are Jennifer & SP is Jenny sounds like a potential tv show Jenny & Jennifer

Soberpotamus

To make matters more confusing, we're both Jennifers, SW. She goes by 'Jen' and I go by 'Jennie.'

Soberpotamus

I put together my new shoe rack. It's great. I need at least two more! I have to get rid of some shoes. It's ridiculous. And I need to get rid of some clothes. The shoe rack got all my shoes up off the floor. I so needed that extra space!

I'm having Talenti coconut gelato. Pretty good stuff.

Next, I'm going to grab one of the Boston ferns from where I work. They went on sale. Also grabbing some bags of potting soil while they're still on sale.

Can't decide whether to buy some great, big pots and some boxwoods or to wait on that. I'm putting them on either side of the entrance to the garage. The pots and larger sized boxwoods will be kind of expensive, but they add nice curb appeal and are a good idea when staging a house for sale.

Soberpotamus

These are what I'll be recreating. I think I'll go with black or darker colored square-shaped planters.

venuscat

There are some beautiful planters available now.
I am partial to the blue-look shiny ceramic pots, but I love a Mediterranean feel.
That more than likely wouldn't be what you want....dark would be good I think, but I do love the polished-look planters.

Jsbodhi

Oh all the planters are so nice!!

venuscat

^^^ Gardening gets me fired up Jen!!!

Soberpotamus

I do like those, V. They have a more modern look, I think. I especially like the narrower ones on the bottom, and that shape would probably fit the smaller space I have to fill.

Soberwolf

Thanks Jennie

Soberpotamus

I bought a Dahlia, a Kimberly Queen fern, and two Compact Cone Hollies. The hollies resemble boxwoods. I like their natural conical shape a little more than I want to shape up a boxwood. Seems lower maintenance. Looks just as nice, with a slightly darker color. Tomorrow I'll get the planters.

venuscat

Absolutely love the dahlia!

Soberpotamus

The color is gorgeous, isn't it?

That fern will grow to be 3-4 feet tall. I think they're Australian, V.

venuscat

Yes J, my mum had zillions of them....and you only need one. They are unbelievably easy to propagate. I can see our backyard so clearly in my mind's eye....it was filled with trees and passionfruit and my mum's pot plants.

I inherited my love of plants and my green thumb from her.

Soberpotamus

Sounds beautiful.

My green thumb comes from my mom's parents.

I didn't know that about the fern! I'll have to google how to propagate them.

venuscat

I live in a tiny flat, and have over thirty indoor plants. I am unbelievably proud of my gloxinias, which are incredibly beautiful, and 28 and 29 years old. I post pictures here sometimes; my favourite pink and white speckled one is on my page.

Soberpotamus

I saw them; they're beautiful!

My very first plant I grew as an adult living on my own was a jade clipping my grandmother gave me, which came from my great-grandmother's humongous, old jade plant. She kept two on either side of the sidewalk entryway leading up to their house. I started that little clipping in 2002-2003, I think. I'm proud of it. I managed to keep it alive through some of my worst drinking. Amazing, really. Tom, my ex, actually saved it at one point. When we split up, I gave him a clipping off the plant which had grown much larger by that time. He has kept it alive.

venuscat

That's so lovely.

Soberpotamus

V, here's my jade plant.

venuscat

Oh, it's so beautiful and healthy!!!

Soberpotamus

It looks lighter in color than it probably should. It had just been put outside after all the cold weather was gone. It probably needs a bit of plant food and lots of sun and water.