plants

i've been reading about and discussing feng shui with friends lately. one of the things that i've read about is the power of plants. you're supposed to have at least 2 plants in each room. they do things like clean the air, absorb dampness in bathrooms and kitchens, different shaped leaves add different energies to a room and attract things like love, prosperity, etc., and they even absorb electromagnetic fields emitted from all electronic devices. some of this i buy more than other bits of it, of course.

but i've recently moved a couple plants from the desk room into the living room (eliminating a couple more of the beige pottery items), and i can't keep my eyes off of them - they're beautiful. just the color they add to the room is enough of a difference, but i think i buy the electromagnetic field thing too - plus the general softness the leaves add to the space, and the fact that they're living things instead of mass-produced, "rustic," beige pots.

i also bought us a new lavender plant for the back patio - yay! it smells and looks gorgeous, and i look forward to being able to use sprigs of it around the house and such. dean helped me re-pot it on saturday into a terra cotta pot. i love dirt!

of course, i also brought the plants i had before with me into the house - the broad-leafed one the lilly office gifted me after i broke my arm, the one that laura gave me that's struggled to survive since i got it (and i think i still owe the pot back to her mom), the little bonsai that i nursed back to health when ben left it for dead as a "table centerpiece" at dinner, and my baby pepper and tomatoes from the little salsa garden that brent gifted me seeds for my birthday. the pepper and tomatoes are now in larger pots on the ground next to the patio, and the tomatoes with cages around them. and - i just planted the sunflower seeds i got in the fall from the green church training i went to at belmont umc. i put a few on the hill in the backyard and a couple next to the patio - hopefully some of them will make it. i realized later that the ones on the hill probably won't work because it gets mowed regularly, but hopefully the patio ones will make their way.

my hopeful next plant endeavors:
-herb garden in the kitchen
-aloe plant in the kitchen
-joya plant for my bathroom
-maybe attempt a plant in their bathroom
-another plant in my bedroom
-a plant in each of the guy's rooms
-a colorful hanging plant above the front porch

oh, by the way - i put up a hummingbird feeder in the front, and when we pulled up the driveway the other day, i saw one flutter away! hopefully it didn't realize that i accidentally diluted the nectar and tell all her/his hummingbird friends.

and i found out that the shed near the back of our house does belong to this house, so i can put my compost next to it, instead of in the overgrown bed next to the patio, which seemed a bit close to the house, plus that bed just needs to be eliminated or a couple real bushes grown there.

that's all about my domestic plant doings for now. i can get a little carried away.

love. jessica