As usual I’m joining with Emily of Ms Emily’s Home for Full-Grown Nerds (and others) for Three Things Thursday. As she says…
*three things that make me smile: an exercise in gratitude – feel free to steal this idea with wild abandon and fill your blog with the happy*
This week all three things are from a single trip out that we had on Tuesday. We went to visit Plantasia in Swansea… it’s one of the places that inspired the Eden Project and it’s about 25 years since I last went.
I was delighted to find several things there that I’m now growing at home.
First, this amazing hanging Nepenthes pitcher plant
A Nepenthes
Mine has a long way to go before it can compete with this one, but it’s certainly grown since I first got it.
Second, a selection of other insectivorous plants: Sarracenia (pitchers), Drosera (sundews) and Dionaea (Venus fly traps), species of which I have growing in the limery.
A community of carnivores
Third, Lithops (living stones). I have one surviving in the limery from the seeds I sowed back in 2014, but it has a long way to go before it looks like these:
So, those are three things making me smile this week – what about you?
The Snail of Happiness 
shellssells
/ December 8, 2016Living stones, possibly my favorite. And while we get tons of things to grow in and outside of our house, these are ones we just cannot keep no matter how hard we try. They are gorgeous, love all the plant photos!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ December 8, 2016Thank you – it was a bit steamy so the pictures didn’t come out quite as well as I had hoped!
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thecontentedcrafter
/ December 8, 2016Sunshine makes me smile, a painting, almost finished is looking good and picking up those scraps of yarn and crochet hook is very pleasing – thank you for the inspiration!! 🙂
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The Snail of Happiness
/ December 8, 2016We have had sunshine today too, which was very welcome as I needed to do some work in the garden.
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eloquentparadise
/ December 8, 2016So greeen! Looks amazing!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ December 9, 2016It is… it was lovely to visit this tiny glass-covered rainforest in the depths of a Welsh winter 🙂
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eloquentparadise
/ December 9, 2016Seems so! 😃
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katechiconi
/ December 8, 2016I’m thankful that my 6 month review of my back with the surgeon in Brisbane yesterday went well, I’m thankful that I was able to walk up and down the very steep hill from the railway station to the hospital without pain, and I’m very, very grateful that I FINALLY made it home just after midnight after waiting 7 hours in the airport for my delayed plane. Oh, and I’m really grateful the bedroom air-conditioner wasn’t broken after all: a frog had climbed into it and it turned itself off in self-defence.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ December 9, 2016Great news – about you back, not the frog (did it get squished?)
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katechiconi
/ December 9, 2016The frog made a bid for freedom, the Husband foiled his cunning plan and carried him outside 🙂
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The Snail of Happiness
/ December 9, 2016The frog certainly has a lot to be grateful for!
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katechiconi
/ December 9, 2016So do we! No more frog song from the aircon tonight 🙂 We’d assumed the sound was travelling up the duct from outside, but no, it was IN the bedroom…
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Born To Organize
/ December 12, 2016All that green makes me smile. Lovely, lovely and lovely!
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