My tips for taking care of house plants (random babbling)

As you all know, I am a fabulous grower of live things.  I grew 3 kids.  I have a lawn.  Grass even grows in the rocks at the side of the house. Oh the things I can grow.  The eyes on the potatoes in my pantry grow like a tuber obtaining limbs to make their escape.  Don't even get me started on the spider web garden I'm growing in the living room window.  Anyway, let me introduce you to my plants.  The plant in my room is actually Amanda's.  It's an orchid.  It was given to her when she still lived at home ( I think, I don't know why else it would be at my house.)  Well, it is so tall and it has 2 flowers on it.  I wish I would have a picture of it but I'm not prepared.  The flowers are white and purple.

I have a poinsettia on my stairs.  It is my goal to keep it alive all the way til Christmas.  So far so good!  It's turning green, it only has a few red leaves left on it. 

I have one of those cool planter flower things that you buy at walmart that is full of flowers.  The kind you hang out by your front door.  But I can't find what to hang it from so it's in my living room.  It's not doing so good. :/  Amanda told me to give it to her before I killed it but it was a gift to me soooooo no. 

I have a money tree.  It currently is just a stick poking out of dirt but I'm not giving up hope that I can bring it back to life.  I send it positive energy and talk to it.  I think it is disappointed in me.  That money tree really thrived when I had it over by the desk by some boxes and I forgot about it.  Now it is by my mom's sewing machine and it stubbornly insists on being a stick.

The plant in my kitchen window is my favorite.  It is the most random crazy collection of plants.  It has it's own personality and is a mismatch of memories.  The main plant in it is one of those green plants with the long grassy leaves and woody stem (body?).  That plant is from the planter we got when Grandma McDonald died.  There is a lily in it that I got from my visiting teacher last year.  There is some flower, possibly a gerber daisy, from the church on mothers day last year.  I need to pull all the dead leaves off of it because it's coming back to life.

So here is how I care for my plants.  When Stella's water bowl is empty I fill my waterer full of water and then fill up her bowl.  I use the remaining water to water the plants. Ouila!  There you have it.  More housekeeping tips to come!