Ponytail palm

Ponytail palm

Is this not the most adorable plant you have ever seen???

I killed my orchid (I'm really, really bad at keeping plants alive), so this is my new desk plant. I'm pretty much in love with it and I feel sad that I never knew these existed before. It has such a ridiculous hairdo! And that giant fat blob at the bottom is so funny.

I'm hoping this one will survive, since that big bulb is actually water storage for droughts so it doesn't need to be watered very often.

They can eventually grow to be 15' tall, but it takes years... I wonder how big mine will get.

In other plant-related news, I spent a ridiculous amount of money buying fake plants for my house (see above about being a plant killer), because it turns out ikea actually has really great fake plants that don't look terrible for an also not terrible price. (Also where I got my beloved ponytail palm.) My house feels a million times happier now.