****I originally wrote and started this blogpost over 6 years ago and and am just now publishing it and trying to get old blogposts published.
In 2014: I just recently discovered air plants. I had a friend who had some and then I saw them at the farmers market and decided to pick some up. They are super easy to take care of. You just let them sit in or on whatever you want and then you spritz them with water or leave them in a bowl of water for an hour every week or two. I have had them since the beginning of April and still have not killed them, so I consider that a success.
Benefits of air plants:
- They are air purifying
- Easy to care for
- They are no mess
- Bring happiness and less stress because plants usually do!
- You can find them in nature or purchase them at places like Amazon and Etsy.
Image from Amazon
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This is post I meant to post last year and never got around to it.
I have always been a lover of succulents. We had them as center pieces at our wedding a) they looked great b) they are cheaper than flowers c) they last longer than flowers.
My grandmother has always had a succulent garden for all my life and my mother in law has grown a ton of succulents.
We recently tried starting a succulent garden at our new house, but the yard people keep stepping on it or something. I need to put a sign for them, so they know not to disturb it. Luckily several succulents have actually survived pretty while despite all that. I decided to plant succulents in various pots that I had got at ikea, or got at the hardware store and leave them in our garden window in our kitchen.
Here is what you will need:
- Succulents
- Pots / containers or if they are going in the ground
- Cactus soil
- Rocks (optional)
You decide if they will be in the ground or pot, put soil in, plant succulent, and top with rocks. Super simple. They need minimal water, just every so often. I put several cubes of ice every week or if I forget to do that I take them to the sink and run them under the water for a few seconds.
The succulents have thrived in our garden window and look great!
You can purchase succulents at places all over Houston.
- Cactus King off of IH-45 (they have a TON)
- Bucchanans
- Joshua's in the Heights
- Kroger's
- HEB
- Whole Foods
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This was a post I meant to post last Spring and since the herb garden is basically the same I thought I would go ahead and post it.
Since moving into our new house one thing that I had at our old house and really wanted at the new house was an herb garden. We tinkered on different ideas of whether to have it raised on the ground or up off the ground, that way we could move it.
My concerns were that I didn't want treated wood to be used for the majority of it, so it would be cedar and galvanized metal or a stone herb garden. I decided to use stone. We had some extra stones in our yard and just decided to use those.
Here is what we did (it's super easy):
- Used 20 stones and we did two layers on top of each other to form a rectangle
- Lined the bottom with newspaper
- Then organic compost
- Then organic soil
- Plant the herbs
- Label if you want. I had metal labels made years ago that I got off of Etsy.
- Done!
I got the herbs from Whole Foods and a local nursery that I found at a farmers market called New Leaf Nursery. When we first did this herb garden the herbs did amazing. Then winter came and many died off while many others did awesome. Now that Spring is here, some of the ones that died have come back to life. They need full sun. I water mine about every 2-3 days.
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