New Plants

Mom came home last week from a day of town errands telling of the beauties of a farm and home improvement store's houseplant selection. She has seen inside plenty of home improvement stores lately as we are currently without one bath. The process of putting it, a closet, and the basement back together after pretty major mold remediation will be just that, a process.

Back to houseplants. On our way to Maren's birthday party a few days later, Dad dropped us women off at Fleet Farm to smell the tires (literally, that store is permeated with the smell of rubber) and pick out a couple new plants. Because we have dozens of houseplants already (a quick, mental walk-through of the house resulted in a count of 35) and two more were definitely needed. Of course I wanted to buy the whole lot (or two more than what we actually came home with, to be precise), but we settled for this Ficus for Mom and a Siam Aurora Aglaonema for the mantle. Now I'm inspired to try my hand at painting some graceful leaf and stem shapes. And find a wet microfiber cloth to wipe the leaves of their hothouse water spots.