Kid Inventors' Day

I thought it would be fun to see pictures of my plants later in the year, to see how much they grow and change. Yes, I give my plants human names. I think it's fun.


Viktoriya
Viktoriya is a purple passion that Damon gave me on my 30th birthday. It was a little scraggly thing with 4 stems, but now there's so many - this picture doesn't really even show how long some of them are!


Joey
Joey is a baby of Viktoriya and is growing even faster than she did! He has some huge leaves and a couple stems that are even longer than his mother's!


Penelope
This is a peperomia variegata. I bought it because it looked sad, it looks better now, but has a long way to go.


Javier
Javier is also a croton - spirale. He doesn't grow very fast but I think he's cute.


Mary Sue
This one is a nerve plant.


Gretchen
This one is a hemigraphis exotica. Can you tell I like plants with purple and red hues? She's in bad need of some clipping, I'll have to do it soon.


Alice
This was my first plant. Damon gave it to me when I first moved to Portland. She was just a little thing in a little pot - she has grown A LOT! She fell out of my window twice and survived!


Jaime
These are my strawberries that I grew from a Buzzyseeds kit almost two years ago. They're not doing well now, but I'm holding on hoping they'll pick up in spring. A spider layed eggs on them months ago and they really took a hit from that - there's still webbing on some of the leaves. They've flowered but never fruited.

THE BABIES (I haven't named any of them)


These are Alice's babies. I think I'm going to make 3 plants out of them and give them away.


This one is a white flower - alyssum. It's from a Buzzyseeds kit and is still pretty new. I keep forgetting to water it.


Five baby spruce trees! This is another Buzzyseeds kit. I'm going to have to put them in their own pots in the next couple months.