houseplant report

[jwgh]

For my birthday last year, my friend plant_geek gave me a papyrus plant, which I think is the first real house plant I've ever owned. It and I have been through some tough times, but a year later it survives:



A couple of weeks ago I acquired a couple of more plants as payment for playing at the City Farm Plant Sale. Plant #2 is some variety of basil that is threatening to take over my windowsill:



I have included a Rubik's Cube so you can see how frickin' enormous the thing is.

Third up is a strawberry plant:



We will see how I do with the new arrivals.

Comments

[katrinkles.livejournal.com]

you should make windowsill pesto. yum.

[jwgh]

I think I better eat that basil before it gets big enough to eat me.

[katrinkles.livejournal.com]

you can make it in small batches as it grows. i used to do that with my windowbox basil in new york. just take a few leaves off at a time.

[restartsmyheart.livejournal.com]

my basil is not that large. and i have 4 plants of it.

[jwgh]

My basil kind of scares me.

I forget what variety it is. For some reason I thought Elephant Basil but that doesn't apparently exist. There is a Mammoth Basil but it has serrated leaves, which this doesn't seem to have.

Maybe the serrations come later.

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

The largest leaves on your plant appear somewhat serrated.

[muffyjo]

That's some serious basil, dude. Wow!