I don't do much gardening around the house. However, there are some plants under my care. Two of them are cacti and then I have some other flower plant that is very easy to keep alive. The idea of weekends is that I go out into the back and front yard and check them out to see if they are doing good. This is especially important since we have a heat wave that has extended itself and will keep annoying us until March of next year.
Yes, you can kill me now.
Plants are some of the more interesting things to keep under your care. They won't bother you in any way possible. The idea is to water them. Keep in mind which ones are to be kept under the sun and protected by shade. Plants do the rest by themselves. No feeding. You might need some grooming from time to time, but that depends entirely on the kind of plant.
I've seen we had a lot of people with green thumbs around HIVE and a lot of them cultivate fruits and vegetables. That's amazing! I wish I had the chance of doing such thing. It would be messy. I might screw it up very quickly, but get the gist of it with practice and time. Besides, having plants that give you food is a great perk. You might need to keep some pests at bay, but it is worth the effort. Around the house, that would mean protect the buds from iguanas. Those reptiles love to eat flowers. We had a cherry tree long time ago and it had to go down because iguanas would not let it bloom. Not even produce cherries. Pesky things.
But, let me tell you about these three plants.
We have Togi the cacti. That one was named after the Digimon "Togemon". And yes, it is cheesy to call a cactus over a digital monster that is a cactus. However, I didn't name this one. It was a gift from a girl I knew. It has grown tons of times and some of its offspring are around the city. I haven't given away some of them. But it was in a small pot and it was changed to a bigger one. It has suited it well. Once I thought it was dead, but cactus are resilient.
Then, we have a second cactus. I got that one in a plastic cut. It was smaller than my pinkies. That one was for sure dead. Mom changed it to the pot of her desert flower. It seems this was all it need to grow and multiply. That one looks funny and it makes it adorable in its own way.
Finally, there's my Bougainvillea. This one is growing to become a Bonsai Tree. It seems that in no time I'll have to start grooming its leaves and using some wire to change the direction of its branches. The idea I have in my mind it's to make it a Waterfall style. It looks amazing in my head. The results remain to be seen. It will be the first one I make and probably the only one. Unless someone gets interested in having a bonsai made by me. Who knows? In this economy, having more income is always good.
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