So I got some more plants. Actually I didn’t get them, my dad did. Yesterday, he came home and presented me with four new plants that he got for very cheap from a street vendor. Today he made me plant them in 12-inch pots.

My dad likes gardening (he used to do when he was a teenager) and he would love to have some plants around this house. But he’s lazy. Coincidentally he found a slave who’s naturally inclined towards this hobby, so from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. today, I did unpaid labor under the July sun.

So now I have a Rose plant which is looking quite sad to be honest. Most likely because of the transplant shock. Hopefully it’ll look much happier in a few weeks.

And then there’s this Chambeli plant, which is mostly growing to one side.

A Lady of the night.

And a Jasmine plant.

These last two are in a much better shape.

From my limited gardening experience, it takes about a month for plants to get acclimated to the new pot and environment. But once they do, you start noticing new growth almost every other day.

I decided to add my gardening adventures here as well. I started this at the end of May with a couple of snakes plants, a lemon tree, and some aloe vera (RIP to them). Since then I’ve added a few more: a calico plant, sweet basil, and orange jasmine (murraya paniculata). The actually started really growing this month and I’m seeing new shoots in all of them.

I also some pothos growing in my window but it’s not picture worthy yet. And the mint I planted, well, people say you can’t kill mint, but I did. So a reverse achievement of sorts?

Anyhow, this is the progress of these smaller plants so far. I’ll maybe do this garden posting as a regular weekly thing.