It’s been about two-and-a-half or three weeks since I showed you all new pictures of the front of our house, and before I took those pictures, I bought new plants for the mailbox planter, the two pots beside the front steps, and planter between the chairs on the front porch. But then I forgot to get good close-up pictures of them.
To be honest, I didn’t expect the plants to last. I have the very opposite of a green thumb. I’ve never been able to keep plants alive. But these plants are not only surviving. They’re thriving!
I mean, just look at this one! It wasn’t spilling over nearly this much right after I planted it.
And I have never been able to keep a fern alive through the month of August. I can handle June, maybe part of July, but August means dead ferns for me. But this one is thriving!
And probably the most shocking of all is that the flowers in the mailbox planter are not just surviving, but they’re thriving also.
I am just amazed at how well these are all doing during our hottest month of the year when the temperature gets to around 100 degrees every day.
None of these plants were doing great the first week. They were surviving, but they weren’t growing. And then I changed one thing that made all the difference in the world.
Instead of watering these plants with water from the outside spigot, I started watering them with the water from our dehumidifier.
I am absolutely amazed at the difference that has made. As soon as I started giving them the dehumidifier water, they started looking healthier, they started growing, they started putting out more flowers.
And I’ve actually started enjoying the process of watering my plants every night. Until now, taking care of plants was something I dreaded…because they would always die. That’s one reason I haven’t been in a hurry to get our yard landscaped. I figured I wouldn’t be able to keep anything alive anyway, so it’s better to dream about it than actually do it.
But now, I thoroughly enjoy my nightly routine of taking that water container outside, watering the plants, and then getting up the next morning and seeing how they’re thriving and putting out more flowers.
So now that I’ve seen firsthand just how big if a difference water directly from the air can make to plants, I’m starting to think about rain barrels and other ways to collect rainwater.
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.
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