Room to Grow.

If you're like me,

you've got a few houseplants hanging around that 

have been looking a little lackluster.

Like as in surviving but not thriving.

I finally was motivated to do something about it.

Kevin bought me a big bag of potting soil

and I lugged all the houseplants to the garage.

Our pingpong table was the perfect

makeshift potting bench.

I grabbed a trowel, some garden gloves and a 

big bucket for the old soil and got to work.

(The wheelbarrow probably would have been better

since the old soil was going to a back planting bed.)

These houseplants have been in the same pots for years.

Like 10 years.

All the nutrients in the soil were long gone.

The roots were bound in a space much too small-

just subsisting, grateful for that weekly water.

They were more than ready for a change.

I lined all of them up on the pingpong table

and it became almost like a clothing swap--

("This pot's too small for me, but would look great on you!"
and so on.)

It was actually kind of fun!

 I gathered these stones from the Flathead River in Montana.

Aren't they beautiful?

 I split these two up to give them more room.

 The only one left is this honker.

It was a gift for my first apartment (21 years ago) and was about knee high.

It's now over six feet tall--much taller than me.

It will take at least two of us to wrangle it into a new pot.

This is how much taller it is than me.

Repotting it will be a project of its own.

Well, at least the rest of the plants are happy.

It cost just a few dollars and took a little over an hour.

Time well spent.

If you're looking for a quick project with instant gratification,

this one may be calling your name.

Your houseplants will thank you!

Happy day!