Fixing My Plants

Oh, I had just too much screen time making my eyes sore. (Is that a thing?) And I have been neglecting all my plants lately staring at the stupid screen.

So, I took the dogs for a walk after which I went to Bunnings and got pots and potting mix, as I was, unusually, out of potting mix. I usually take Brun with me to Bunnings, he is my Bunnings dog, but since he'd just been for a walk I left him at home, being careful that he didn't hear the jiggle of the house key on the car fob, otherwise he'd, they'd both, be at the front door before I was.

Then, I got to and revived a monstera, I picked up in the street a few days ago. 

I have a large palm in my atrium that, I think, is, actually riddled with bugs and just recently I have been thinking I need to get a plant to replace it, so I can give it a holiday outside to recover from its infestation. 

I was just wondering what to do, buy a plant at Bunnings nursery, look on eBay, go to an independent nursery, and although it would be too slow, grow my own from a cutting, and abracadabra, someone put a big enough, badly pot bound, monstera out on the footpath to be taken by the first taker, you know how they do now a days. 

I assume people buy these plants and when it comes time to repot them it is just too hard and they dispose of them, presumably buying a new one to take its place. 

All I had to do was repot it, easy peasy, and then being spring stand back and watch it grow.

The last Monstera I had was years ago. It got too big for inside and I put it outside in the garden just outside my back door by the side fence to next door. It stayed there for the longest time, in which it grew over the fence and planted itself in the garden next door, where it proliferated. More recently, the adorable gardener, Tommy, from next door, has chopped it up and put it in about ten large pots all along their fence line.

I repotted my tall Ficus that keeps blowing over in the wind. I have two both of which got too big for inside. The last Ficus that got too big for inside I sold for $200 on eBay.

I repotted my large pot of succulents that blew off the outside stairs pillar in all that fierce wind we had a few weeks ago, its terracotta pot smashing on the courtyard crazy paving.

So, that was all the immediate plant problems solved.

Now, I’m going to the gym. I must repair my gym attendance the same way I have attended to my plants.