Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Blue Thumb

Some people think that you're either born with a green thumb or not.  I think I was born with a blue thumb.  I'm attempting to keep SOME plants alive around our house just because I like looking at them, but I'm awful.

I received a plant for my one year anniversary with my last job, and I've managed to keep it alive for over a year.  It's a peace lily plan (I think) and all I ever do is give it some water every couple of days.  It doesn't look pretty (drooping and brown spots all over) but hey, it's alive.

I blogged earlier about some hydrangeas I saw at Costco that I had to get.  Well, they aren't looking so pretty a month later  :(

When I was researching how to care for them, I read that they require a lot of water, but not too much, and no direct sunlight.  I've done all of this (I think), but they are still looking sad.

See for yourself:


Why are they losing color and looking so brown??? Who can help me out with this?? Anybody? :)

1 comment:

  1. We just recently bought some too! My mother-in-law told me to take rusty nails and stick them in the ground near the plant to keep them blue. My father-in-law said there is something you can buy to turn them back to blue because I think the actual color is the pinky/purple so I guess you really have to work at it to keep them blue! Good luck.

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