Kat

8.27.20

7.1.20

new terrarium!

fun fact: venus fly traps naturally grow in only one place on earth, and it’s a tiny swamp in north carolina. i visited it –very excited– and found it incredibly underwhelming because these plants are rarely more than three inches tall.

the hardest part of building a terrarium for me is finding a container large enough for a plant to live it’s (hopefully) entire life in without breaking the bank. venus fly traps pretty much eliminate that issue.

5.19.20

calathea pool party with my newest plant baby:

5.13.20

5.5.20

4.30.20

4.24.20

“angel wing”

moderate water and full sun; this plant would make great ground cover

4.23.20

4.21.20

this post is all about how i rejuvenated one of my pilea peperomiodes after struggling with it for nearly six months.

i’ve propagated and cared for many pileas over the years without any issues and i became pretty confident about my pilea-keeping skills as a result. so when this one started showing signs of being less-than-healthy, i assumed that there was something wrong with the plant and it couldn’t be my fault.

i was confidently wrong :(

eventually i caved in and googled what was wrong with her, and found out she needed some fertilizer. i had never used fertilizer before, so i bought the wrong kind and within a few weeks it got incredibly moldy and nearly killed my plant.

then i moved back home for quarantine, where i keep my 40g fancy goldfish tank. in the jar, there is the NASTIEST stuff to ever come out of an aquarium. it’s the buildup of broken down poop and uneaten food that accumulates in the filter — and the plants love it.

in the second photo, you can see a pre-fish-poop-water leaf on the lower left, and a post-fish-poop-water leaf on the upper right. i’ve been giving her a very diluted version of what’s in the jar and she’s bounced back like nothing ever happened.

4.12.20

this is a photo from a while back of a tillandsia tectorum ecuador that i bought in santa cruz, ca.

4.2.20

bath time this morning

on the left is a calathea orbifolia, and on the right is a pothos snow queen

most calathea species, including this one, don’t tolerate tap water. she was in the sink this morning just so she could drain in there

3.30.20

11.11.19

putting off buying a propagation station from amazon paid off when i found a few of these little numbers from a tiny plant shop in downtown petaluma, ca

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12.3.18

11.24.18

Yes! Online forums and visual guides from Pinterest are what really helped me get started. The basics for cacti are to make sure it gets plenty of direct sunlight and generous waterings only when the soil is completely dry.