In the last couple of months I’ve been getting into Pinterest, a site where you can organize all of your interests into online “bulletin boards.” I know–I’m a little late to the party! Some of you have been doing this for awhile now. I’ve found it to be useful in gathering ideas for clients (I email them a link to a board), organizing recipes (used my Pinterest iPhone app at the store the other day) and fashion (that one’s just for me–I gather ideas for clothing, accessories, etc.) and projects (I email links to The Hunky Foreman: “How about this fire pit design?”).
As we get into the colder winter months, many of us can’t do a lot of outside gardening. Your ground is frozen under 3 feet of snow, and you literally can’t dig a hole. That’s when I get into indoor projects, like window or tabletop gardens. I’m not really into the standard houseplants, so I try to gather ideas for either unusual plants or unusual ways to display them. Check out my Pinterest board on “Window Gardens“:
Although I live in a place where we can garden year round, I like bringing some of the outdoors in. Also, some of my clients are starting to ask for help with their indoor gardens as well–so my interest in indoor plants and displays has truly been growing over the last year. I started out with tillandsias (air plants)–I killed most of them with kindness, so now I’m starting over.
Now I’m getting into lithops, these oddball tiny plants that look like rocks, hence their nickname of “Living Stones”:
I have several projects planned for this winter–adding some glass shelving, creating an indoor display for my current balcony plants, and hanging some glass orbs in my window. Maybe I’ll try adding herbs inside, too. What kind of indoor gardening do you do? What are your favorite plants? Do you have plant collections? Do you have a new kind of planter you’ve discovered lately? I’d love to hear about it!
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I love your tillandsias and lithops. I like the idea of bringing gardening indoors. I have a couple if indoor plants. I have a peace lily that has bloomed continually since I bought it. The more plants inside the merrier:)