I wanted to write a post about my plants.
Lola:
My oldest plant. She has been through a lot with me, I almost killed her by leaving her out in the rain, she got too much water. She is a spider plant that I got at Deerfield Academy when I was working there as a counselor at a summer arts camp. She is flowering right now, little white flowers, I have never seen them before, apparently she likes I weather on my porch in Philadelphia.
Isadora
A “peace lilly” that I got at a flower shop in Baltimore, on McMechen (spelling?) st – halfway between my apartment and the Freshman dorms. Named after one of the mothers of modern dance, Isadora Duncan, she has flowered 3 times and needs water every 3 days. I bought her a new pot at Home Depot, since then she has grown about twice as many leaves and seems to have a new found confidence.
Steve:
Bought at Home depot – is a variation of a palm tree. Standing about 3.5 feet tall I bought him to bring home and live on my new porch. I tried for a while to water him outside, but leaving him out there was hard for me to remember to water him enough. Every time I watered him, the water spilled out through the holes in the side of his plastic pot. I decided to bring him inside today to take better care. I realized that there were no holes in the bottom of the pot and that was why the pot couldn’t hold any water: it spilled out over the side and couldn’t be held in the bottom and soaked up later. Cut holes in the bottom, I hope he gets better now that I have made these changes, I have a feeling he will.
My last plant has no name yet, I think Herman is possibly a good name or Harold. He is another variation of a palm tree – 2 feet in height, with a burst of green leaves, that really do look much like a head of hair. I bought him at Ikea, seems not to need much water and sits by my bookshelf.
