Mindy! Green is the best medicine, isn’t it? What is your trick for succulents? I always have to end up replacing half of them after about a year – I have one spot in my house where they seem to thrive. I think one of my planters got too crowded over the summer and the whole lot of them died.

Plant shopping is going to commence in T-minus 2 hours, can’t wait. Plus it’s gonna be 30º today, I’m ecstatic! Have a cool weekend!

I know, right? I covet them all too. You could always add a plant cart to your outdoor garden scene.

Me too! The kids used to like going with me because they would check out the fountains and the koi fish, but now they are too old and cool for that distraction. It takes a lot of convincing and negotiating to get them in the car with me. I’m gonna do it though!

Ha, I lol’d at your comment – “nice looking place to shrivel up and die”. I used to think I had a green thumb, but lately it seems like I kill half of what I bring home. I think the kids distract me from watering when I should.

In other news, I have two fiddle leaf figs and they are tough for me. So many people say they are soooo easy, but they are not, at least not for me. The first one I got at IKEA last March, it is doing great actually, but it took a long time to get it to do great. After losing almost all it’s leaves I moved it to our upstairs porch – since then it has been happy and has grown quite a bit.

Then I purchased another one when container plants were on sale at the flower store. It did great all summer long, and then there was the day that I decided to paint the radiator. I opened all the windows for ventilation on a 40º day, and think it shocked my fiddle leaf quite a bit. It started dropping leaves within a week and ever since then it has been a delicate balance of light and water. It’s still dropping leaves, but it has slowed down. I am hoping it will make a full recovery and start sprouting new leaves again in the spring. I had to move it up to our bright sunny south facing room for the winter and it seems to be happy there. It did not like the porch like the other one does. These things are divas I tell you.

That was a lot of info about my plants, but there you have it. Fiddle leaf figs are stressful, but totally beautiful and worth it. You should get one and have something extra to worry about like I do ;)