I adore plants. Absolutely love them.
I’m not sure where this ‘plant appreciation’ of mine came from, but it’s there. In fact, when I was in high school, my summer job was landscaping. I worked for a small, women owned landscaping company called Maywood Lawn and Landscaping. During my time at Maywood, I cut grass, trimmed hedges, pulled weeds, ‘whacked’ weeds, planted plants, removed plants, sprayed herbicide (not my favorite part), shoveled mulched, spread mulch, loaded trucks, emptied trucks, drove trucks and backed up trailers that made me proud (if you’ve ever had to reverse a truck with a full size trailer, and turn it to the left or right, or both – you know what Im talking about). It was good. It built my confidence, provided an ‘honest’ day of work, and led me to my career behind a desk, since I SWORE I would find myself a job that included air conditioning and DIDN’T include a fear of posion ivy, hornets, sunburn and dehydration. My time in the sun served me well.
Now, I garden for fun, on MY time and not at 5AM or 3:00 PM (when the sun is nothing more than pain). I also have a ton of houseplants, which I love. You can even ask my husband. I know its strange but I regularly walk by one of my plants, hold up a leaf and say to him, ‘Isn’t this amazing? I mean look at this! Seriously, come look at this!’. 
I’m just amazed by natural diversity. Here is a picture of my newest plant. Im not sure the name (I’ll get back to you with that) but the leafs are just beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I love this plant.
