House Plants

Before we moved into our new home a couple of months ago, we had three house plants: a prayer plant (which constantly prayed to live), a lily which wasn't doing much better and a some kind of trailing plant which only had three leaves. None of these plants did anything in the five years we lived in our previous residence and we actually thought we lost the prayer plant because the one leaf it had was dried right up.

One thing I have to say here is that Susan has had that prayer plant since she was a girl. It would have been a very sad situation had she lost it after more than twenty years.

A couple of weeks after we moved, we noticed our plants slowly coming to life and looking much healthier. The prayer plant started sprouting new leaves and so did the other two. We even bought a polka-dot plant which is now bursting out of the little pot it came in. Our plants are so much happier.

I guess they didn't get enough light in our old place and now they get much more. We only moved next door but that big tree in the back was enough to rob them of the light they needed to live.

Today Susan and Laura came home with dirt and new, bigger pots for all the plants. They transplanted them all so now they'll be even happier. Laura even re-planted a cherry tomato plant she'd bought at the market downtown a couple of weeks ago. She also bought a little strawberry plant starter kit which is very cute.

It is so refreshing to see the life in our plants come back. It was so stifling in our old house, even for us. Now we all have room to breath and life is much more comfortable. We were so long overdue for a change and I'm glad that it came when it did because I don't know how long any of us would have lasted over there.

We have plans now for more plants, now that we know they'll do well. We'd like some sort of large plant for a corner in the living room and maybe a few others. The trailing plant we have used to go all around our living room two houses ago. I'd like that again. I think it will. Life is good!