Welcome to the Blog and Meet Poppy, My Gateway Plant

 Welcome to my plant blog. Glad you could be here, and hope you don't mind the spilt potting soil.

I created this blog as a place share my love (or obsession) for all my house plants. This includes sharing photos of my latest plants, any useful information I learned while attempting to care for them, and possible goofs along the way. It will be an interesting journey.

To start, let me introduce the plant that started my plant addiction love. Poppy Popcorn.

Poppy is a mammillaria gracilis fragilis, commonly known as a thimble cactus. I bought her from Walmart's garden center September 2022. Truth be told, I don't recommend buying plants from Walmart, but that's a tale for a different day.

She was a bit of an impulse buy, I just suddenly thought it would be nice to have a cute little friend to keep me company. Just one little plant couldn't hurt, right?

Then I went to Home Depot to get supplies for Poppy, and found this little succulent on sale...

...And this Radiator plant that would be nice for the breakroom at work...

...And how about this succulent too? Pretty cute right?

And it kept going on from there. Almost every time I needed something for Poppy (or any other plant), I saw more to add to the family. 

Now I have more plants then I care to admit (there would have been more, except not all of them survived my newbie-ness). I am still learning and growing as a plant caretaker (or is it plant parent?), and I hope to share it all with all of you.

May you be inspired by my experience, or just laugh at my inexperience.  Either way, stay green.