Aleo care

I am starting a strange habit, well stranger than talking to my plants; I have started naming them. I blame the lack of any kind of exciting activity and therefore in hopes to help myself I restarted my Yoga and took up crocheting (which seems to be going on well), Still I find myself staring at the opposite wall of my hall for larger part of the day for this past week. I blame the cloudy-windy and raining weather (though it is more my laziness than anything.)

My one year old Aleo vera plant is showing signs that it needs more sunlight and windy spring is not helping me much. My poor plant is trying its best to send out new shoots. In hopes that it might help, I decided to re-pot it in a bigger and more sandy soil. I had bought it as very tiny droopy thing in deal from Walmart ($1 for Aleo plant in seed starter cup).It has grown greatly in last one year.  Here is a pic of my Aleo vera named Ariel.

Now to the story of the parsley that a friend of my husband's gave me: Well last year I decided to have herb corner in my balcony, I had basil, mint, cilantro  in my herb center. My Husband's friend gave me parsley to add to it  (he was given that plant as a return gift in some party he attended). Well I planted the parsley in spare pot  (a huge one, the only empty one i had then in hand)) and watered but mostly I forgot about it (I do not use parsley in my cooking). Well the dear plant grew quite huge, bloomed and managed to scatter its seeds around the post it was tied to... most of them ended up in the concrete floor below and some managed to land in the soil behind the walls of the balcony. Well the result is here. 

Baby1:

Baby2:

I have finally managed to groom my darling begonias. I have about 2 full pots of red and white begonias and all blooming throughout the year without care. I shall call my begonias: bee (red/pink ones) and belle (white ones)