What a week! I have been counting down the minutes until Friday since Monday morning at 7:30am. I’ll admit that having all of these guest bloggers imparting their wisdom on my blog has made me a bit lazy when it comes to the blogosphere. I would love to provide you with a photo-update of the [...]

My jasmine is giving birth to one flower a day. Maid of Orleans jasmine only keeps its flowers for a day before they fall off. I am collecting them to make tea. In other news…one of my lavender plants is doing well, the other is quickly dying. My basil is back in the game and [...]

If you have too many plants in your apartment does it make you a plant lady? Is that the equivalent of a cat lady? I thought that my basil was feeling a little cramped and a little under the weather.  (I’m not quite sure where the Florida sun went, but we would really like it [...]

Dear Santa, Honestly, I think I’ve been really good this year. I only took one sick day and I got an A in my class. AND most importantly, I didn’t spend any money I didn’t have. I’m not sure what you can do for me this year. My wish list is void of designer handbags [...]

I have temporarily stopped buying plants. I figured I should make sure that I can keep 7 plants alive–yes 7!– before I turn my apartment into a tropical paradise. My final inventory: two provence lavender plants one mint one basil three cloves of garlic (they have roots!) one maid-of-orleans jasmine (it’s going to bloom any [...]

I’ve become a bit obsessive about this garden I have growing in my apartment. Maybe I should have purchased theapartmentgardener.com as my domain name. I suppose knowledge about gardening is knowledge nonetheless. Now…onto reaping the benefits of my garden! I made pesto with thai basil from my windowsill herb garden. But not just any pesto…white wine [...]

While I should have been reading chapter 10 of Erika Hoff’s language development textbook, instead I was growing an apartment garden. Apparently I did not learn my lesson about being too hasty. I planted the confederate jasmine in a window box that I fear may be too small. I also planted the lavender in a [...]

I have started a collection of hobbies over the past year… scrapbooking painting blogging headband making instant photography And as if this list were not long enough, today marks the first day of apartment gardening. I really love flowers they smell wonderful and some even taste good! (Don’t knock it until you try it!) However, [...]