What is it like to marry a succulent-obsessed wife?

Building a succulent flower bed

I've been growing succulents for over 4 years. Normally when tending to them, I have to drag my husband and mom along. From their point of view, the biggest experience is that they feel so miserable inside!

Not long after I met my husband, I dragged him in as free labor to build the garden. This is the semicircular flower bed that was just renovated in 2016. Right after planting, there wasn't much to look at.

Over the next half year, with patching and fixing up, I added some new varieties. About half a year later, the flower bed had turned into this.

In 2017, the once bare semicircular flower bed became completely packed. Thanks to my husband here, you worked hard~

By 2017 it had already exploded with growth. Sedum hispanicum and the all-purpose blue-green plants had taken over most of the flower bed, and the magician had grown into a tree... At this point I had a bold idea!

To balance the diversity of varieties in the flower bed, I got my husband to pull out the companion plants that were taking up too much space, leaving just one or two of each succulent, and added other flowers and plants.

On April 17, 2018, the weather was great, so I snapped a photo on a whim. Many of the succulents had become old stumps, and the newly added verbena had bloomed too. The flower bed had become a forest!

I placed a little bird ornament on it, and it had a blockbuster feel: welcome to tour my succulent forest~

Pots and containers

The more succulents I grew, the more buying soil and buying flower pots became part of my daily routine. Of course, it was always my husband carrying them back and forth, truly rough.

There really are a lot of flower pots. This is a corner of the rooftop, just taken a few days ago.

The rusty iron frame in the picture below is an abandoned swing. Using it to hold succulents gives it such a great feel.

Indoors, on top of the shoe cabinet, nowhere is spared either. One pot after another gets placed there quickly. My husband said: growing succulents is too tiring.

The north-facing balcony of course had to be put to use too. I planted some shade-loving green plants there (in the picture: spider plant, ivy, pothos, heuchera, and aromatica...)

This pot was the work I completed in 2016 when I attended a flower lovers' meetup. It won first place in the vote and I brought it home. You can see that two years ago I was still a green succulent enthusiast.

I found a stone with grooves, planted a few Graptopetalum paraguayense in it, and placed a little snail decoration I picked up for 1 yuan. Too cute.

In 2017, I made this succulent bonsai by DIY-ing a flower pot out of tree bark. The moss was scraped up outside by my husband. My arrangement skills are getting better and better, right?

Here's another piece. This one was made by my husband. Even though he's been influenced by me, a succulent lover, it still doesn't look as good as mine.

Succulent flower chair

I once saw pictures online of this kind of chair turned into a succulent rack, and I liked it so much that I started obsessively wanting to DIY a succulent chair.

Haha, I finally found a broken chair. With this degree of shabbiness, using it as a planter is absolutely a perfect case of turning waste into treasure. Kudos to myself.

My husband happened to have something to do and wasn't home, so I called my mom to help me. Thanks, Mom. On my side, I cleared the succulents out of the flower pots, and Mom removed the broken mesh from the chair and re-tied a nylon line net.

After tying on the nylon line net, I laid a layer of moss. This time the moss was also dug up from outside, all in small chunks stacked up, with ordinary flower soil mixed in between, layered a bit thicker, because next I was going to plant the succulents directly.

Once the moss base was ready, I couldn't wait to plant the succulents in. I felt the chair back was a bit empty, so I simply tied nylon line there too and planted succulents on it~ It looks a little wilted, but I hope it succeeds.

More than a week later, they all looked lively and energetic. Such a sense of accomplishment. Even though it had rained, I still excitedly took a photo.

Now it looks like this. In spring, succulents grow fast, and many of them have bloomed.

Looking back, how do I feel about it? I just think life is beautiful. People who love flowers and grow flowers probably all feel this way~ Also, my hands-on ability has become super strong, and I can switch into tough-girl mode in no time. Of course, I have to thank my mom and husband.

After reading this succulent-loving flower friend's experience

Huahua can't help but sigh

Wherever there are more people who love and grow flowers

Hurry up and send me a dozen

Reposted from Zhihu: Pig Ate That Century Egg