More plants!

Ever since two of my plants died, I have been wanting to buy some more. And that's what I did on my precious 1-day weekend last week. I went to the same flower market, tried to avoid the same stores in case they remember and ask me about those plants...

I did some research ahead of time for plants that are easy to keep alive. I've been eying succulents, which I saw the last time I was there. I think they're in the cacti family but they're not spiky. They're supposed to be super easy to grow, even in the winter. Another great thing about them is, theoretically, you can break off a leaf, leave it on the soil and it would germinate into a new succulent without much effort on your part.

I came back with a grand total of 5 plants. Clockwise from left: succulent, purple succlent, random easy-to-grow plant, succulent and aloe vera.

I may have gone a little overboard with the succulents, but they are so cheap! I think total for all three was less than 20 bucks. The other two were spur of the moment buys. I've seen people at work with the random plant and it looks quite low maintenance. The aloe is purely for skincare use. Lady at the store said there's no need to water at all!

Without sounding super uncool, I am very excited about these. The only thing I am slightly worried about is I got ambitious and decided to transfer the succulents into pretty pots I've bought (they come in cheap looking plastic pots). I was trying to get them transferred into the new pots, but I wasn't sure how to pack the dirt with their roots so I kind of just stuffed it all in there... In the process some leaves from the purple succulent snapped off so parts of it look bald right now. I'm trying the germination thing with those leaves so we shall see if that actually works.

Will keep you posted xx