Bringing My Plants Indoors for Winter ¦ A Little Violet Farm.

Hi everyone! So in today's video I'll be moving my houseplants inside. I normally have them outside during the summer. I thought I'd take you guys with me as I do this. And the space you see behind me here you might recognize it from previous years but I normally put a lot of my houseplants in that area. It's really well lit So I'll be fixing that up. So two or three weeks ago, we had a cold spell here in Ohio that I brought in all of my plants. and they seem to like it there. And honestly, we've had such beautiful weather recently, I almost feel like I could have kept them outside. But sooner or later, you have to bring them in anyway. Thought I might as well get it done. I have a large window in the basement. There's a bench in front of the window that I like to set some plants on. They get plenty of light during the winter months here. I always like to kind of shake them out and make sure there's no hidden bugs or anything in them before I bring them inside. get asked that a lot and no I rarely find any but I always like to do that just to make sure. I also like to go over them you know removing any dead leaves before I bring them inside and yes they do better for me on the outside like during the summer they really get a boost. They enjoy our Ohio summers I guess probably with the humidity that we have and it always seems when I bring them in it's kind of risky for them over the winter. I've learned over the years kind of how to take care of them to get more of them to survive for me but now and then I'll lose one. I've placed some of my fall decorations back here, things I thought maybe I'd use and then ended up not. It's just a handy little space to do that, but I'll have to clear things out first here. So the little cabinet that is back here is one that I had redone, you might remember from a previous video, it was actually a roadside find, and while it worked well, it's a nice narrow little piece, you know, to put plants on, I have something else I want to put here, and the cabinet I plan to put here is something Grandma used to have, like I actually have memories of it as a little girl, you know, going to Grandma's house, seeing it, and my sister Marlene had gotten it at an auction, I think when they sold some of Grandma and I don't want grandpa's things. She had. gotten it there and didn't really have a space for it anymore, so I, of course, you know, claimed it right away. I love pieces like this that have a meaning to them. So I just placed this cabinet in here, was ready to start, you know, moving my plants into space, and I get a text from Marlene asking if I'm going to go with her to Fredericksburg Greenhouse, and I, of course, said yes. I love that place. I've showed you guys it before, but... They're actually open year-round and have lots of houseplants, so I thought this is perfect timing, maybe I can snag a few new houseplants. Every time I'm here, I always think I'd want to pull up a chair and just sit in the midst of all of these plants, and during the spring and summer months, they often have their water features going, so you have that sound of the water, and it's just, yeah, just the smell and the sound and how it looks, of course, is just so beautiful. I didn't get a video of this but we also stopped at country gatherings. I wanted to look for some violets. I've been wanting to try my hand at violets and I knew they had some so we ended up stopping there too. I'll go ahead and arrange this shelf by shelf and as I place the plants on here I'll go over them and remove any dead leaves. I didn't get all of that done when I brought them inside. This pretty botanical sign was one that we had an apple blossom for a while. I'm always switching things out over there so I So I found this in storage. I think it'll look good here. There's a slight sag in the top of this metal cabinet, so I'll go ahead and place this piece of wood in it. I think this should straighten things out. This pretty variegated plant is one that I think I waited too long to bring it inside. It's got a bunch of brown leaves. I think I can pretty it up by removing them. There's a few plants I want to repot, and I'll be doing that outside, directly outside the door here. There's a little deck. This plant is one I had gotten this morning at Fredericksburg Greenhouse, and I'll try to put the name on the screen. I can't think I can't think of it right now, but I thought it's so pretty. I'm gonna try and use one of my handmade plant hangers that I made out of jute cord years ago. Gonna try to use that for this plant. This is also one I had gotten at Frederick Square Greenhouse this morning. Just such a pretty variegated pothos. These are always a favorite of mine. They're so easy to keep and they look pretty. I like how they trail. Here's something I wanted to mention. I always use these things to place underneath my planters. It just saves me so much time later on when I'm watering. I don't have to worry about water spilling out. from the bottom of the planter and I'll try to have a link down below in the description box, an Amazon link. I have a number of these and they came in a package with all kinds of different sizes but I could not, yeah, be without these. I have one more small hanging planter I want to add. It reminds me of a begonia, I don't know is it in that family, but Chris, the girl that does my packing for me, she gifted me this last year I think, and it was just the tiniest sprig when I got it, and it has since really multiplied, lots of pretty reddish leaves, and I think it'll look pretty in here once I have these knots adjusted. Something else I've been wanting to try plant-wise is raising my own violets. I don't know have you guys ever tried that but I know mom used to do this and actually my sister Marlene did as well but supposedly you can just pinch off a leaf of a violet plant stick it in potting soil and eventually it'll probably take a while but eventually you have a new violet plant and I kind of joke about this. I tell people I'm going to call it my little violet farm and I realize that's probably not a term but to me it sounds kind of appealing and I have the perfect window for it and even the perfect little stand that I dug out of storage that I'll be using. So I got these violets. Country Gatherings. They have a section there called the Gardens. And I thought I'd just start out with kind of the basic violets. I know you can get some that are kind of ruffled or have different looking leaves, but I'm going to see how it goes first before I just start investing a lot of time in my violet farm. But I thought they were so pretty. You guys might remember this piece. I had found it in a thrift store, painted it, and then built this kind of house frame part for the top. And again, I think this will be pretty to hold my violets. Hopefully they'll survive in here. Here we go. I know this wasn't a long video but hopefully you guys enjoyed it. It's nice to see my plants inside again and hopefully I can keep them alive this winter. I got to show you guys what I'm working on today. It's so much fun. I'm kind of in the Christmas mood actually and I think it's just because of these cute little rustic ornaments that I'm working on. At this point they're not available or anything but I plan to at least make some of them. I think they turned out super cute. Probably sell them in sets of three but I'll send all of that out in the email that I sent I'm going to send out once I have some of this Christmas stuff in order. I had talked in last week's video about my little wooden trays that I'm working on and I never got that email sent out. I'm still working on those trays, but that's another item that I'm kind of excited about. But I'll be sharing that in an email and maybe even later on in a video. So watch for that. If you guys have any requests on things that you'd like to see again, we have some of those cute little cutouts. We have, you know, the set of three trees or we have the little nativity set. I'm thinking of having those again. I'd have to talk with my cousin Michael about that. since he's the one that cuts them out but watch for that. I'll again try to send out an email with all of our Christmas announcements soon but in the meantime we have the Christmas candles out in case you missed those. Those are selling really well so thank you guys for all of your orders and I hope you will love the candles. So as always I hope your day is going great. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time. Bye!