Spring Succulents

I love Spring! I’m not going to lie and say it’s my favorite season because Fall will always be my number 1 but I do love Spring. Most of my favorite memories from JMU are from the Spring and now a days when the cold wears off, it’s my favorite thing that I can keep the windows open, go barefoot and enjoy my plants. 🙂

Yup, I’m a nerd. What else is new? But seriously I have an obsession with succulents and my spring, summer plants. It all started last May when I had an exceptionally bad day at work. Went to a friend in the building that day and just sobbed, for about an hour plus I cried like a baby. When I left the building I knew I needed to just walk around and do something aimless. So I went to Walmart, as I used to do in college with my best friend Kristy. When something went wrong or we just needed to escape for a little, we would go to Walmart and just walk around. So off I went and I found myself looking at the plants. I left Walmart with 5 plants (big plants mind you) and then headed to Home Depot where I found the succulents. It was love at first sight. They were colorful and tiny and came in all different little varieties. So I bought a lot… I needed to, it just made me feel better.

So now a year later, I’ve kept them alive! Not only that but I’ve also propagated them to make more 🙂 Which is one of my favorite things about succulents, how easily you can produce more! Finally it’s warm enough outside that I can go sit on my stoop again and talk to my plants. I like to get home and take off my shoes, head outside and pay a little attention to each one. Now you may think I’m crazy but! last summer I did this every day and my plants were booming! Then I left for a weekend, one weekend, just one. I told Sterling “Please watch over my plants and make sure you talk to them”. Well he’s a busy guy and didn’t manage to hold up as much conversation… I came back after that weekend and probably three or four were dying! He swears to this day that this story isn’t true (but it is!). Now I’m not calling Sterling a plant killer but…. no I’m kidding, but seriously, talking to your plants helps!

So the other day I went outside, had a little chat with my plants, and got these gorgeous images of my beauties. I can’t wait to go over to Home Depot and get new fresh ones to add to the group. 🙂

Also just a heads up, get excited because on Monday you’ll see these plants again as I announce my May and June session dates!

Propagating succulents is so easy! Another blog post about this will be coming to you soon. 🙂

Doesn’t this image below just feel like watercolors? I swear I did not edit the clarity or heavily edit this! Love it!

This plant is so strange and I honestly never really liked it until these images. It just recently bloomed these smaller plants off the tops. Strange but pretty!