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Hello, and welcome to my first blog post. Here, I will introduce you to some (most) of my plants. I've been caring for these plants between 6 months and a year. With the exception of one plant, they all came from plants my sister gave me. Mostly as cuttings from her plants.

To the left, you'll see my African Violets and some Golden Pothos plants. The violets started as a single leaf (the big one), and the Pothos were snipped from a larger plant. See below for a zoom in on the violets:

These little guys didn't start growing until 6 months after I got the big leaf to root. My sister gave me 3 leaves, and this was the only one to make it. I had this one leaf sitting in a pot all winter, and the little dudes just started sprouting maybe three weeks ago. Pretty cool!

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Next up is my Crown of Thorns plant and my Kalenchoe.  The Thorny one, I bought last year and just re-potted it in a larger pot last month. Sometimes it pops out a couple of white flowers, but they never last long. With the new pot, and more room for it's roots, she's already started growing new leaves and I see three sets of news buds. So, I could have 6 flowers, which would be a record!
 The Kalenchoe, I got from my sister as a single stalk she had rooted. You can see there are two stalks sticking off a main stalk. The main stalk is what I started with. I've had it since last fall, and it started blooming for the first time just this week. The buds started about a month ago. 

Here are some more pictures of those guys:

 

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Here is some other cool plant, but I don't know what it's called. This started as just a single sprig of leaves. My sister gave that to me wrapped in a paper towel. I set it in some soil last year, and now it's spilling out. Pretty cool! 

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Lastly, here are some cacti my sister gave me. The two spider cacti (left), each started with only one or two section sticking out. Now, 6 months or whatever later, it's got all sorts of sprigs popping out. The other cacti (right) I'd say were about half the size when I got them. You can kind of tell by where they're pinched in the middle. These apparently will propogate themselves and they look pretty neat, a bunch of them crowded together, crawling out of the pot.

bonus:

succulents. are they still alive? do they want water now? I can't tell. 

Well, that's about it. Thanks for looking at my plants. It's a fun thing to get into and you always have nice, living things to look at.  I never had much luck with houseplants before, and now I'm doing pretty good. It just takes patience and attention.  Many thanks to my sister for all the cuttings and advice!