the good times

My living room faces south, which is awesome for sunshine. It also means that in the summer time it gets a little bit too warm for human beings. My succulents don't seem to mind.

I should warn you that I am bad at keeping flowering plants alive. The secret of violets, according to my mother (who seems to have applied this philosophy to a great deal of her waking life) is to leave them the heck alone. The fact that this plant still produces flowers ASTOUNDS ME, as I am sure it is tired of being poked and prodded and over watered and under-lit. Or vice versa.

African violets like medium sunlight and damp soil. Commonly found growing wild in tanzania, they are a perennial flower and can live happily in pots for years. They bear only a superficial physical relation to actual violets.