When I started this blog I wanted my plants to be low key, leave them and forget them because of X, Y, and Z. I wasn’t too far from my mark honestly almost 2 years later. 

I thoroughly enjoy researching plants but I don’t want to own all of them. I like plants that don’t mind being under watered often and don’t mind the  low humidity level in my apartment. Now having one or two higher maintenance plants would be fine for me potentially, but I don’t want to baby every plant by keeping them in a cabinet constantly worrying about airflow or humidity levels. It’s just not for me.

(Of course high maintenance is going to mean something different to each person who owns plants and all are valid.)

That being said, I have been eyeing some plants that are higher maintenance that I didn’t like until recently, and I really want to give them a try but being honest with myself I am not a person who wants plants that need fiddling with.

Or am?

I think I don’t mind the challenge or a plant that is considered high maintenance but I get overwhelmed with my current plants which are considered easy to most in the plant community or the dedicated space for them when I move my current plants around my life in my apartment when I have only 2 windows for direct sunlight ahaha.

But why would I put myself through more stress or feeling cluttered with high maintenance plants that is completely outside of my comfort zone?

Because it would make me happy. If it ends up being a disaster I hope I had fun along the way but what if it succeeds?

Obviously I wouldn’t want to put myself into the above situation, but why cut myself off completely from certain plants when I can just have boundaries to reduce burn out or stress ahaha.

I’ve let some of my mental hang ups get to me – in between me and being happy – and I am trying so hard to get over these to move forward. I create borders I can’t cross and wonder why I’m not happy ahaha.

I feel like this can be applied to all areas of my life and I’m all for it. 

My husband’s grandma told me to pick out a plant at the desert botanical garden when we visited with her and I was like psh, I’m not gonna get anything I’m good with what I have – until I saw the variegated bear paws and it was allllllll mine! Mwuahaha I snagged the only one there.