** Trigger warning for botanists, plant lovers, and horticultural geniuses ** 🤣🤣🤣

This morning we have a glimpse of the sun, but more thunderstorms are in the forecast. The past week has been wet and rainy, making the outdoors remarkably lush and green and saving me temporarily from my watering duties. But as fate would have it, all this being stuck indoors has made being outdoors more desirable than ever, and I am itching to get some planting done.

The truth is I have very few gardening skills, but I still have an inexplicable affinity for plants. So each spring, I haul home several unsuspecting leafy victims and place them gently in fresh soil with love and good intentions. And then, I proceed to torture them throughout the summer months for the entirety of their short little green and flowery lives.

But all this rain has put a damper on the critical business of determining what horticultural species can best withstand alternating dehydration and drowning. And so I have had to turn my malicious conduct to the pour innocent house plant.

It should be noted here that there are many dangers for any plant in my care, namely me. However, for those particularly unlucky specimens that find themselves indoors, there are two additional perils to contend with.

Peril 1

Peril 2

Normally I place the few hardy specimens that have proved they can withstand my alternating smothering and neglect in one of our few cat-free zones. But in addition to making some open planters, I am also trying out this new invention (ok, I know it is not new, but it’s new to me.)

Anyway, where was I? With this new invention of closed terrariums, I am feeling ever so clever. I am certain to thwart my Felis Catus and keep them from chewing on the greenery. And there will be no digging their ferocious paws in the fresh dirt with these tempting but impenetrable glassy enclosures.

Of course, given my plant care competency, it’s more likely I have just found a new form of torture. Which has me wondering, just how long does it take to suffocate a fern? I will probably never find out as I am more likely to drown it first.

Anyhow fear not, my friends. I don’t intend to give you any horticultural advice here, but I will merely inform you that I was able to follow these instructions.

Step 1 – Add rocks for water drainage

Step 2 – Add soil

(the pundits suggest soil with charcoal, so that’s what I used)

Step 3 – Separate plants to fit in containers.

(To be clear, I am unsure of the best way to do this, but I used a kitchen knife.)

Step 4 – Add some decorative rocks, etc.

(Let’s be honest here the only reason I made this project was that I wanted to use my DIY plant charms)

Step 5 – Water and place in the appropriate amount of sunlight “pre-furr-ably” away from any terrorizing felines.

(I lumped those all together in one step because I don’t have the slightest ideas how to do any of them successfully. This begs the question, why in the world would I make so many of them?)

If reading this post is making you feel compelled to dash off and report me to the horticultural board and have all my plants confiscated, let me put your mind at ease. You can rest assured in knowing that most of these arrangements were re-homed before I could do any permanent damage.

Happy Upcycling,

Cindy

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Oh, and if you are wondering about the plant charms, here is the 411.