About Me

Hi! I’m Colin and I looooooove plants! I am starting this blog to keep track of my plants and to write my thoughts about plants.

Here below is a photo of me with a succulent arrangement that I made earlier this month. Don’t you love the plant with the mini flowers in the middle? They are my favorite.

I started liking plants when my parents re-landscaped our back yard a few years ago in late 2020. We were in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic and we were all stuck at home going crazy, and we needed more space to run around. Our yard transformed from a muddy boring place to a new place full of new and interesting plants! I learned that plants have different light and watering requirements, can be tall or short, skinny or spreading, have invasive or deep roots, be deciduous or evergreen, and annual or perennial. I guess you can say that after this, I got hooked on plants!

The picture below on the left is how our back yard used to look before we remodeled it. It was overgrown and messy, and the hillside had ivy everywhere. It was disgusting! On the right, is how it looked AFTER! This is after one year of growth.

I like all plants but my favorite right now are probably succulents. I like how chubby their leaves are and how easy they are to propagate. It is so cool how you can take a single succulent leaf and grow a whole new plant out of it. The new babies are so tiny, they are so cute! It took a while to figure out how to water them. People say that you shouldn’t over water them because then they will get root rot. But they actually really love water. What they don’t like is soggy soil because wet soil will grow bacteria and give them diseases, so the secret is to either give them rocky well draining soil or just let them grow permanently in water.

Here below are some more pictures of me and succulents. These are my very first arrangements made from plants that I bought and that I grew, a couple of years ago. You can also see a photo of what I propagated from leaves, but I discovered that the ones grown from leaves are very hard to keep alive, they have all died. The plants that are grown from cuttings are much easier to grow. My mom says that I have a plant problem and I have taken up ALL of our windows inside the house. You can see in the last photo some succulents that I have kept alive in water at the kitchen window, and they do not get root rot.

Lastly, here are a couple more photos. Below, left, my sister and I are pulling weeds on New Years day. We have to keep the yard pretty! And on the right is me with a carrot plant that I planted. I just found an old carrot in the refrigerator and stuck it in the dirt and this grew a few weeks later. After the carrot, I planted everything else I could find in the kitchen, like potatoes and green onions!

Anyways, I can talk a lot about plants but this is just my introduction of myself for my home page. You can read my blog posts for more information about my specific plants. Click on the top right of the page to read my blogs.