Plants are nice

Over the past month or so, Nick and I have decided that we needed to spruce up our place a bit, particularly our patio. After our trip from Europe, we realized that we forgot to ask someone to water our plants, so when we got home, we discovered that all of our plants on the patio were dead. We never did anything with them, so for a few months, we had a few dead plants and a grill on our patio, making it oh so pretty to look at, especially when it's the first thing we see when we open up our curtains. Anyway, we decided it was time to do something about that, so we went to a couple of nurseries around town and to buy outdoor plants, as well as some indoor plants.

Whenever someone asked if we were looking for anything in particular or if we had some type of theme we were trying to work with, our answer was basically "something that you can't kill very easily." I was thinking that we would be shown a lot of cacti, but I was surprised to see just how many varieties of trees there were that didn't require continuous watering and could withstand many days of sun.

One type of tree that we purchased was nicknamed the "Oriental Pom Pom." It looks like some type of bonsai, since each 'pom pom' looks very neatly pruned. They were cute, so we actually got two of them, plus a couple of house plants. They arrived a couple of weeks later, which resulted in our patio having two living Oriental Pom Poms and a bunch of dead plants. We decided the Pom Poms needed friends because they looked really lonely, so we went to another nursery and purchased some larger trees to fill up our patio space, as well as a couple more indoor plants.


They were delivered last week and I must admit that having living plants on our patio has really made a huge difference. It's really nice to open up the curtains to see green (as opposed to dead plants, or the huge concrete wall that is on the other side of the fire lane that our patio is on). Also, the indoor plants really give our place some character. We're not entirely sure what Kitty thinks of them though...we're fairly certain she thinks they're toys because we've noticed some bite marks on some of the leaves.

So, we're both happy with our decision to add greenery to our place. I just hope that Nick's able to take care of them for longer than a year so that we don't have to go through this process all over again next year.

Kitty likes plants: