Category: Indoor Gardening

  • My First Plant: The Old Man Cactus

    An unnamed fuzzy cactus. Not quite like my original Old Man Cactus, but cute and fuzzy nonetheless. The first plant I ever owned was an Old Man Cactus (Cephalocereus senilis). I must have been 8 or 9 and it was an impulse buy my mother made out of guilt. I’m not sure now what she’d…

  • Terra firma in springtime…

    A Phalaenopsis orchid given to me as a gift last Christmas (2011) has finally re-bloomed. Like the above orchid, I’m currently in the process of re-blooming too. It seriously took my being able to accept that I had to simply shut my own eyes, let go (trusting that I would be caught by something), and…