Helen Plus Three

Isn't this just gorgeous... at my balcony window... sometimes the only thing to do is sit and admire God's creation and let him take care of you.

Bought a couple of books on houseplants from Amazon, can't wait for them to arrive. Been busy with kids' stuff, time to get back to my blogging, my reading ...and my scrapbooking... but first my gardening... Lipstick. surviving and flowering after a break... These hang outside my home where some of the morning sun can catch them. This variety of money plant (pothos) is doing well but the Song of India sitting just behind it as wilted away rapidly recently.  The green non-flowering plants are surviving better. But there are elements of the humidity and wind factor that have a sad impact on my houseplants. Mostly a whole plant can go from healthy to sudden decline very fast and there's nothing I can seem to do to slow or stop it from dying eventually.

I'm growing my plant collection slowly, unfortunately the  '' rules'  are not so straightforward. Japanese rose, I have to figure out how to prune this ... It's not just indoor and low light conditions, I thinks there's wind factor since I'm not on the ground floor and that I do have some sun but from an angle. I'm sort of facing south-west. Spider Plant Believe it when I say, I have managed to kill a couple of so called 'hard to kill' plants from either over watering or too much chemical fertiliser (inspite of following instructions). Well I have not gotten the hang of the soil types and am playing by ear. It's been almost a year now, so things are going well for the hardier plants like the money plant, Boston ferns and bamboo palm.  So I'm making these rules as I go along.... (remember I'm an amateur)  Rule no 1 : don't always follow instructions on fertilizer package Rule no 2 : don't be so ambitio...