I am definitely a country girl that loves to garden, quilt, preserve, hunt, and read. I love my family more than anything in the world. I live with my husband of fifty years. We have a son, daughter, granddaughter and grandson. We live on a 500+ acre farm in Virginia with about 75 cows & bulls, thirty chickens, and three dogs.
I love plants of all kinds but especially houseplants in the wintertime. Our house doesn’t let a lot of light in. We have windows everywhere but overhang from the roof and maple trees surrounding three sides is limiting. I have one room over our living room that faces the south and is warm in the winter allows for a few. My favorite are African violets and mine bloom just about all year.
At the moment, these have just dropped their bloom.The blooms are different shades of purple and dark pink.
But, I just added these little beauties to the group.
Pale lavender and white came home with me last week.
This one has a different shade of pink.
The other houseplants are doing well, and I’ve received slips from friends and started a bunch of new ones that aren’t African violet.
Begonia
Mother-in-law tongue
Prayer plant
Orchid cactus, I think.
Lots of cactus that bloom red, pink, magenta, pink & white, white and red.
Just started spider plant.
Mystery plant, it will get much larger and bloom and have marble size red berries, I call her Betty after the friend that gave me some of the berries. I have several of these started.
Burgundy shamrock that I just got from my hairdresser and it’s blooming. I love shamrocks. Green one next.
This is the newest that I got with the new African violets. So unusual and it’s called Snow-white Waffle plant.
CANNOT remember the name but I have two and they get really big and colorful. I got them from my mother-in-law several years ago. This is a start from the original.
Living the Country Life My Way 