Home Renovations

Almost half a year ago, Adam and I collected a few mangrove pods. At the time, we put them into 12 ounce glass beer bottles with some soil and brackish water. I hoped for the best as I watered them with fresh water from the tap. Months later, they appeared to be doing quite well. They have grown in size as well as added an abundance of leaves. As an experiment, we moved one of the mangroves to a bigger home.

The first step was to drink a gallon of root beer (hello, floats!) to obtain the larger container. We then had to break the glass beer bottle holding the mangrove to free it for the move.

Finally, we simply added soil to the new plastic container and voila, a new home for one of the mangroves. If it thrives, we will then move the others.

Rose Rising

A while back at a cute little plant nursery, I couldn't resist buying a desert rose. I got the smallest one they had; it cost about $3. The price of the desert roses in the store seemed like an exponential function of the size, which to me indicated that this would be a slow growing plant. It's been sitting happily in rocky soil for quite a while now. It does, like many of my plants, go through periods where it loses several of its leaves, but then it comes back to life after a little while. However, now that it's officially summer, even though it's Hawaii and the changes are less dramatic, they are certainly there. One lovely surprise is that my rose is blooming for the very first time!