Gaining a Green Thumb

I've attempted to care for plants in the past... and it's never ended in green. The best I'd managed is the Chia Pet shown below- and even he didn't last that long.

R.I.P. little buddy

My first real attempt was Jonathan's first as well; we got a cool little tree-bush that I actually bought for my father. We decided to keep him but forgot about him and left him in my trunk for 3 days!!! Obviously, he's a real trooper! And since then he's done incredibly well; we named him Sprout because he hasn't stopped sprouting!

Sprout, our little trooper

The second plant we got is an Ivy named Ivy (imagine that). We figured, "Who the hell can kill an Ivy?" Well... we probably could if we tried hard enough; for some reason, Ivy didn't do so well in the beginning. But we finally got the hang of it. =)

Ivy's gone wild!!!

Then one by one, we started acquiring new plants; our third purchase consisted of two little Hibiscus flowers. The flowers lasts a day at a time- it's really pretty neat. One has orange flowers and rounded leaves and the other has pink flowers and jagged leaves. They've bloomed over 30 flowers since we got them and we've saved every bud! The pink one was chopped by the stupid apartment gardeners but is recovering slowly but surely.

Our pink and orange Hibiscus twins.

We got our fourth set of plants not too long after- they're cactus flower-like plants called Succulents. They multiple continuously and are the coolest little things; we've started several new plants from the three we first purchased.

Succulent Clusters and Succulents in my Grandmother's frog.

After a while, our garden started being invaded- we had Pot Bandits. One day, I went to re-pot one of the Succulent clusters and I discovered the culprits. It was invasion of the frogs!!!!

To be continued...