Plants

If you have a compost, chances are you end up getting yourself planting plants of some kind. I do not consider myself as a green thumb so I shy away from planting.

However, I do like to look at plants. And I have a couple or two plants that I really liked from time to time. The kind of plants I really liked are those that are hardy plants - it won't mind if you don't tend to them for a long time. Some plants that I have the pleasure of growing:

• Tillandsia - these are air plants. I love them because you don't have to have a soil to grow them and what's more, you don't need to do anything for them to grow and thrive. Any place outside is cool, the can even live in direct sunlight. I had a couple bought and gifted, I placed them in outside my mother's house and some years has pass and they are now lots and lots of them.

• Snake plants - I particularly like the brown colored snake plant and the whale fin type snake plant. Like tillandsia, you place them in a pot of soil -- any kind of soil and you can leave them be. Today, my whale fin type snake plant have outgrew and broken both a plastic pot and a clay pot. I don't have any materials to repot these plants so I just left them as is and they're still thriving - not presentable and very very robust.

• Mini Jade Plant - I just found out that this particular jade plant is edible - they are also known as elephant bush. They are native to Africa. This is a challenge for me. While most youtube vlog I've watch always say that this is one of the easiest plant to grow and propagate - it's not for me. Like I said, I'm don't have a green thumb and it shows right here. For years now, I'm still at 2 plant and doesn't look like they are healthy. The mother plant has died, luckily the child, in a hanging pot, is big and I have another one on a small pot - they had big leaves before but it doesn't look that way now. Also a sibling of theirs died. I thought I could do some cuttings to make them look like a bonsai tree - and that's the time they started growing smaller leaves and one of them eventually died. I didn't cut a lot mind you. So lesson for today, let them be.