The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

The Good:

The ficus I pruned and cleaned up a few weeks ago is doing so well!  What a little maintenance can do!  

It is putting out so many new buds and it looks like a ficus again instead of some crazy scraggly half dead tree.

The Bad:

Any gardener, no matter skill set, can fail.  It was my fault.  I let it go too far and wasn't aggressive enough with the treatment, but my gardenia met the trash can yesterday. 

I am working on my photography skills, but I think you can see the leaves and how they all have yellow flecks.  That shows a lazy plant owner.  

And here are the webs.  The white dots are bugs.  Not cool.  I could have saved it.  I could have taken it in the tub and gone through each leaf to make sure the bugs were off.  But I didn't care about it that much.  It was done flowering, I bought it at IKEA, it had no sentimental meaning.  It got dumped.

The Ugly:

I love cyclamen.  I think they are such elegant plants with the flowers delicately floating above the leaves.  But, I almost killed this one.  I let it dry out too much too many times.  I didn't repot it when I got it and left it in the plastic container.  I ignored it.  Again, a lazy plant owner.  But I think it will recover.  It has a few new leaves, I've been paying attention to it and it should be fine.

But it is not pretty at the moment.

so, what's the point of this post?  Don't be lazy!  Your plants will appreciate a little love but if you do mess up, well, it is a plant.  Get another one.