Friday, April 10, 2009

Spring Flowers, be gone April Showers...

I tell people that I don't have a green thumb and that I can't even grow stuff that grows next to a freeway! So, I resort to plastic, silk and otherwise artificial forms of greenery. Inside the house, it's mostly because the cats would eat, spill, destroy anything alive. Outside, well, I nurture my cats well, but just don't have the time to nuture plant life.

So, I may be the only person you know who has plastic herbs in her strawberry pot, and fake Aloe Vera in her bathroom, and very realistic Chickens & Hens in her living room, and realistic flowers in her kitchen windowsill. Before this sounds so trashy, or "plastic doilie-like", I do get high end fakery, and here's some proof...







Ps: I do have a few living plants outside...Rosemary, bush roses, mint and catnip, but they are very low maintenance, hence they survive me ignoring them. They haven't come to life quite yet, so the last 3 photos are of honest-to-goodness real, springtime daffodils, grape hyacinth and forsythia in other peoples gardens!











Ps: I am not a gardener, but have many gardening bloggie friends...you will enjoy this site, A Blog of Note!
Mr Brown Thumb

13 comments:

  1. lol....I thought the plants on your windowsill were real.

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  2. I'll have to bring you some low maintenance plants for your yard!

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  3. We can't do it all....there's just not enough time. Your garden looks just fine! Happy Easter!

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  4. They're all beautiful (the real ones and the less real ones too). FAZ

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  5. Wow and LOL, you're my kinda girl lol ;)

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  6. they do look real for sure. and the real ones are lovely too. read the previous post and feel your sadness along with your dreams of perhaps a new love in the future. hugs, suki

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  7. Pretty pretty PURDY!

    I am a total black thumb, but I keep trying. Since I live in apt buildings all the time, I am limited to containers. That is my excuse. I look forward to having an actual yard someday, and I want to grow flowers to cut and bring inside and veggies to eat if I can figure out how to do it.

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  8. I think you did a great job landscaping at work... but I still lol'd when I read this post :)

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  9. These are fabulous! haha I know the feeling about cats getting into your plants! I found something very useful is sticking shishkabob sticks (pointy end down) down into the soil around the base of the plant. Now my plants are kitty bum free! :)

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  10. I wanted to let you know about Crescent dragonwagon's blog on which she has a recent post about the death of her husband a few years ago, the grieving process and also her cats. crescentdragonwagon.typepad.com

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  11. My mom loves flowers to yet can't get them to grow.I can't believe the window ones are fake they look so real.

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  12. lol, what an amazing likeness! I would've never thought those were not real. I suggest planting a bee balm. They are easy to grow and hummingbirds love them. They also spread fast!I get hummingbirds every year because of them.

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