a thing in 83 photos plant My fiddle leaf fig tree had some holes in the leaves and upon further investigation I found some kind of bug infestation and had to clean all the leaves. Margaux. They saw if you name your plants they are healthier and live longer! Donnie & Bonnie Jean Michel Horace Thelma Tina Dana ...give all my plants names! We passed a field of these cool green plants with red berries. Such weird mirror symmetry in this plant! Feed me! ...and do nothing for hours! Ok, you're weird! Stopped to take a picture of these massive blossoms that were 2 or 3 times the size of my fist! Got a new money tree plant... I've had this guy for so long he is trying to leave his pot! Plant-care Tuesday. Look how long my golden pothos is! Admired plants in the afternoon. I like these leaves. Leaves on this one grow in a spiral of six and the flowers are five. Love these. Hand-sized hibiscus! Spent Sunday recovering from Saturday. Pretty Queen Anne's Lace I snapped... This was a really busy time in my life but I was also making time to practice mindfulness meditation for at least 20 minutes every day. I have written in my diary that this was my 50th consecutive day without missing. (I didn't make it to a 100 days) Pick yourself up and start over again! ;) Ta-da! Now with plant! On Saturday afternoon, I put a new plant hook in the ceiling near my office window. When you cut a slice of it, the inside is... ...almost see through! Went shopping at the south american bodega around the corner and in addition to my usual fruits and veggies, I picked up this giant aloe vera leaf. Took the bus back to NYC and spent Sunday evening playing piano... ...and another golden pothos! Got a new fern... Spent Monday morning with the plants. Plant care Friday! ...but Petra's seen better days. Ferny's doing alright... Thursday afternoon I spent time attending to my growing collection of plant friends! Into the bathtub, where all East Village home gardening is done! I also got a big new pot so I could re-pot my dragon tree, Robert Plant. ...and this here is his spiderwort buddy, Wandering Jew . Also went to the store and got two new plants! I was going to give these guys fun plant-names, but the names they came with were already pretty good! This guy's called Creeping Charlie.... Ferns are my favorite plants. Not only are they beautiful, I love the sweet and "plant-y" way they smell. Mmmmm, smells Devonian-ish . Got this tiny new fern at the grocery store. Morning Glories I love these leaves. Spent Friday enjoying plant care and sunshine! Happy May 2013! Bought another plant on Sunday afternoon. (Golden Pothos also known as Devil's Ivy). Check out Sunbeam Squinter in the background. Haha. Our guide stopped to show us this plant and said that it was the basis for a new medicine that is used to treat cancer. As in Xunatunich, the walls were overgrown with lovely, fuzzy xanthoria . It's filled with plants and butterflies. The fronds on this palm look like the fins of a fish. I don't know what this plant is called but it's def one of my faves. I wish all my clothes looked like this. Lots of exotic, big-leafed plants! The lovely leaf of the excellently-named Monstera deliciosa ! Orange you lichen it? (Xanthoria is one of the cooler-sounding geni of plants. Sounds like a princess in a fantasy novel.) Ivy I liked on the way home. ...that was totally covered in plants. I love this. On the walk back to Sylvie's I passed this building... On Saturday afternoon, Grant came over for a visit and we.... Jury's still out about whether or not they make you look tres cool or not. (Grant's face in the background. Haha). Once you start seeing patterns in nature .... On Thursday I had lunch with my friend Happy who was in town visiting from LA, and her friend Christine. Afterwards, we walked up to the "plant district" to check out... Love the plants everywhere on this block. Robert Plant (my very first plant ever!) is settling into his new corner nicely! This plant's flowers looked like mushrooms! Nature already invented all the best stuff. I want to wallpaper my apartment with these. Succulents have such lovely radial geometry. God is not a man in the sky with a beard, but that doesn't mean we can't still see his face. Behold the Φ spiral ! Venus Flytraps - the world's most well-known carnivorous plant! Love these saw-like leaves. My new plant is settling in nicely. Around 1am, we headed back inside and did some more exploring. Gorgeous plants... The new plant makes the living room so much friendlier! A very handsome Dracaena marginata (dragon tree). On the walk home we stopped off at PlantWorks and I bought my very first plant. ...spent a bunch of hours on the interwebs trying to identify her new house plant... Love these prehistoric-looking ferns. On Saturday I started going into plant stores and looking around. (Two years later, I have A LOT of plants). ..the little berry holders are revealed to be flowers. When the berries come off.. ...are pallets of plants! NYC rooftop garden! Walking back to our apartment through Stuytown I stopped to admire the amazing colors and patterns on whatever kind of plant this is that they planted everywhere. Mandy and Rosie opted for the symbiotic team-costume route and showed up as a "Lady Bug" and "The Plant that the Lady Bug Lives On!" Amazing! Camouflage Tinny. 
