Our "Children" !!

Since Trevor and I obviously don't have kids and Wymount won't allow any pets (not even fish!!), we have discovered our love for raising... plants!! :)

So here's some pictures of our babies!

This first picture is of Trevor's bonsai tree that he purchased a little less than a year ago from a bonsai salesman on the side of the road. He had been wanting one for some time... so he finally gave in. Currently, our bonsai went through a bit of shock when we left it for a weekend to go camping, so it lost a bunch of leaves. We replanted it in fresh soil just two days ago and it's already growing a lot of its leaves back! :)Next are the tomato plants that I have been growing since the end of May or first of June. I went to an enrichment activity where we planted seeds. I planted grape tomato seeds and basil seeds. My parents told me it's impossible to grow tomato plants from seeds... but they seem to be doing pretty well, don't you think? They're probably about a foot tall or a little more. And they're growing a lot every day. I'm starting to have to stake some of them up... you may be able to see in the middle of the pot there's one with a stake (it's really a shish-kabob skewer).
This next picture has two plants in one pot. Down at the bottom you can see the two surviving basil plants that I grew from seeds. I did have four in this pot, but I came home one day to notice that someone (or something) had knocked it over and then tried to put the soil back in... but I could only see ONE of my four basil plants!! I looked around for the others with no luck, and then I dug into the loose soil and found one buried completely. That's the one on the right in this picture. It's been recovering since. I searched around for the other two smaller ones, but never found them. Oh well... at least I still have two! I'm not really sure what the other plant is. I know that at one point it had little purple flowers on it, but I haven't been able to see more blooms for a while, probably because it's about to be fall. But anyway, it's a plant Trevor picked up from the nursery where he got my birthday present--more seeds to plant! :)
This next plant is Trevor's mission plant. I can't remember what it's called at the moment-- a Japanese something or other. It's also called a money tree in some places. It's cousin to the cactus so it doesn't need much water. It kind of looks weird in this picture, but mainly because it needs to be re-potted when I get a chance. Apparently these things can grow to be big bushes, and if part of it is cut off, you can just stick it straight back into the soil and it will live. You can see the part that accidentally fell off of ours that I stuck back in the soil at the bottom. It's starting to grow new leaves :)
These next two pictures are ones of our brand-new additions! They are the seedlings of pepper plants that Trevor got me for my birthday. I planted the seeds in the little soil packages about a week and a half ago, and just recently I discovered my first sign of life:Just a few days later, this is what they look like! And they are growing REALLY fast. I have a feeling these will be big plants! The nursery said it's okay to plant them this late in the season, so I hope that they make it and we can maybe get some peppers to pick from them! I don't know why I find it so fun to grow things, but it's nice to have a fun hobby!
So... I hope you enjoyed getting to know our little "family" :)

We're moving to our new place with a porch by this Saturday, so my plants will have a nice sunny, safe place to grow! I can't wait!