Hit 57 pots on my balcony and finally stopped deadheading

I counted last Sunday while watering and realized I have 57 individual pots crammed on a 6 foot balcony. That number hit me weird because I never meant to collect that many plants. It started 3 years back with two basil seedlings from the grocery store and just snowballed from there. The epiphany came when I noticed I spent more time trimming dead flowers than actually enjoying the green. So I swapped half my petunias and geraniums for self-cleaning begonias and calibrachoa, and now my morning coffee routine is 10 minutes shorter. Has anyone else hit a plant count that made them rethink their whole setup?

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lily_jenkins7617d ago

I did the same thing with my books a few years ago. Kept buying them faster than I could read and one day the stacks were just everywhere, so I made myself finish five before buying one new. Turns out I mostly liked having them more than reading them, which was a strange thing to admit.

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