Northeast Gardening: Beating the Winter Blues & Cabin Fever...how do you do it???, 1 by granitegneiss

granitegneiss wrote:
Repotted my rosemary today (I know, wrong time of year, but it was in a plastic pot and I hate plastic pots). I left a pile of potting soil on a plastic tarp in the sunroom where I'd been working, and wandered off on some errand. When I returned, I found Pumice the kitten making suspicious scratching motions on the pile of soil--yup, looked so much like her litter box, she figured she'd save herself a trip downstairs.

Anyway, I think one of the best ways to get through winter blues is play with your houseplants. I made this little succulent planter recently. The Crassula lycopodioides in the center is just a cutting, the rest are young plants I picked up last weekend at the local nursery. The plant on bottom right was unidentified, but some research makes me think it is Gasteria baylissiana.
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