I've also begun propagating a few of my plants so I'll show you those in a second once we get deeper into things. I've also named all my plants so this is going to be fun. I haven't thought of names yet for the plants I'm currently trying to root so if anyone has any suggestions on names, I would love to know! 

The first couple of plants I want to introduce to the world are ones I recently purchased for my room. I got these two succulents at Wal-Mart for $3 total. One was nice and healthy for the most part and the other was in pretty bad shape. I don't know if all Wal-Marts are like this but the plants I looked it at my local location were either dying or wilting severely. These were the best ones I could find and one of them actually didn't even have dirt in the nursery pot. I could literally pick the plant out of the pot without any trouble. It was so sad.

Anyhoo, that one I named Klaus, the little guy on the right. I love his two-toned leaves and he seems to be in much better shape ever since I brought him home. His leaves are a little taller and he's been getting plenty of love.

The one on the right I named Violet. Anyone get the reference? I fell in love with her as soon as my eyes landed on her because of her beautiful leaves and she's gotten bigger since I brought her home too. This picture was taken about two weeks ago and since then her leaves have started to open up and spread out and she's already started growing a couple of new leaves. I'm so proud of her.

The next plant is the beautiful ivy plant that my mom gifted me as a house warming gift and I couldn't love him more than I already do. He's BEAUTIFUL! This big guy I named Peter. He looked like a Peter.

He's actually gotten so much bigger in the past few weeks, after a couple of weeks being in my care, I actually had to purchase a bigger pot for him as he was way too big for the one he was already in. Since repotting him, he's continued to keep growing and has even begun growing a whole new vine! Eventually, I need to get some sort of frame or rail to start elevating his vines but I'll get to that hopefully soon.

I've also cut off a couple of his leaves to propagate them and, spoiler alert, it's been successful so far. There's one leaf that's kind of giving me some trouble but it's okay, I'll trim down the stem and try again. I was afraid I would fail miserably to root the leaves so I didn't bother trimming down their stems. 

Speaking of Peter's old pot, here's this cute little succulent that I eventually had to move from this little pot into Peter's old one.

I bought this one at Lowe's and I have to say, they have THE BEST selection of plants there! There's so many different ones for all different types of environments and I always go in there wanting to buy like 50 of them. There are so many options. Anyway, I bought this one because of the beautiful blue color!

This succulent is sprayed with a certain mineral color I believe to dye the leaves this blue color without causing it any harm. I had never seen a plant like this before so I might go back and see if I can find one in a different color to keep her company.

Her name is Lisa, and she's already gotten SO BIG since I bought her last month! It wasn't long until I had to repot her, maybe after three weeks or so if I remember correctly. She used to fit perfectly in her little pot but after about a week or two, she already had new leaves growing around the sides and she was starting to get a little crowded.

Luckily Peter's old pot was the perfect size, if not a little too big to allow Lisa to keep growing and give her room to breathe. I'm not sure I would be able to propagate this plant as I've never heard of anyone doing that to a succulent but maybe I'm just really out of the loop. I'll have to do some research on a couple of my plants but for now, I'm just happy they're alive.

I also found this cute wire rack thing at the thrift store to put Lisa on so she can rest nicely on the patio in the corner. I'm not sure if this is actually a plant stand but it is now. 

This plant is probably my favorite one next to Peter. But SHHH, don't tell the others! I love all my plant babies. But like, look at her! She's beautiful!

This first picture on the left was taken after a couple of weeks of caring for her and as you can see, she's so much bigger now. Her leaves widened and got larger and she's also grown so many new leaves already. I imagine I'm going to have to repot her within the next few weeks so we'll see how much she grows when that happens.

She's a little sensitive to sunlight but loves plenty of water. Because my apartment's windows face west, I only get about three to four hours of direct sunlight onto my plants and the sun shining through my windows which is actually the PERFECT amount of sunlight for this little lady.


Her name is Rosé and I'm honestly surprised that she's been able to survive the crazy heat and humidity that we've been plagued with recently. I'm surprised all my plants are alive in this heat actually. I usually try to look out for plants that don't need that much sunlight because of the placement of my apartment but also plants that don't need to be a small range of temperatures.

I mean, I don't plan on leaving my plants outside whenever it starts to get freezing cold when winter comes but I like that pretty much all my plants do well in high and low temperatures so I don't have to worry too much about them in that aspect. 

This one is my most recent purchase and I got her at Lowe's. I just thought she was so cute and I needed a smaller plant to put in Lisa's old one since it's on the smaller side and it's perfect for a succulent or a small flower.

I named her Jisoo, totally a random name, I know. There are zero references to anything, just found it on Google. Anyhoo, she's nice a tall so I won't have to worry about her leaves getting wider or spreading out like my succulents have done.

I was going to put her inside with me but I liked how she looked out on my patio table. She kind of reminds me of a decorative centerpiece so I thought that was fitting. I also bought that little white lantern to keep her company and I've been meaning to buy a little battery-powered candle to put inside of it. I love turning on my patio lights at night and watching the sunset while eating a nice cold popsicle, I swear sunsets in Texas just hit different. 

And my last little plant is actually Peter's child. I said before that I was trying to root a couple of his leaves just in some water and I set them by a window so they could get just enough sunlight. It took a few weeks but finally, this one had about an inch and a half of root after a week.

I made sure to switch out the water every week and I'm sure that getting some liquid fertilizer probably would've helped it root faster but I wanted to try it with just water. I actually have another leaf that's finally started to root as of last week as well! There are actually three baby roots sprouting an they're all between half an inch to three-quarters of an inch long.

Anyway, this one I named Jennie and I haven't decided yet if she's going to be an indoor ivy since I don't have any plants in the living room or kitchen but I also don't want her separated from her sisters. I think way too much about these things if it wasn't obvious. I'll see what I decide but I might keep Jennie inside for a few more weeks until she gets a little bit bigger since I'm scared to put her outside right now since I just potted her and I want her roots to get nice and strong. 

Now here are the plants that are currently in the process of rooting! I'm so happy that I was able to get Jennie to the point where she was ready to be potted and I'm super excited to get these potted hopefully soon! It's hard to be patient when you see the roots coming in. I know that as soon as you see roots, they can actually be potted but I like to wait until they're about an inch long.

As you can see, two of them are doing pretty well while the third one I think is one I'm going to trim down a bit and see if I can save it. Anyhoo, I'm actually really impressed with how fast a cutting of Jisoo has rooted!

It's been in this water for a little over a week and already it has about ten roots growing! I recently noticed upon looking at it that there was actually a root growing towards the top of the cutting since it had fallen into the water overnight and it already had a root sprout! I don't know what kind of plant this is since I accidentally threw out the sticker for it but I would totally recommend this one if you're wanting to propagate some plants to grow your own plant collection a budget. I plan on potting it within the next week and giving it to my mom and I'll probably take another cutting from Jisoo to hopefully give her a sister or a brother. 

ANYWAY, those are all my plant babies! Let me know how many plants you own, which one is your favorite, or if you're also trying to propagate some plants. I hope you enjoyed reading this post and until next time!