Simply Succulents

We don't overdue it here on St. Patrick's Day.  We celebrate with fun traditions of leprechaun traps and time with the family but after all the hubbub of the Legion's Corned Beef Dinner we are kind of cornbeefed out and then all the extra we do for 4-H this month with St. Patrick's day in mind we like to just enjoy the day rather then go crazy.

Simply Succulents was a class offered by our local Cornell Cooperative Extension on growing and caring for succulent plants.  The glass was given by the same sweet lady who taught the girls to sew their first real clothing pieces that you can see here.   Since it also took place on St. Patrick's Day I though it would be a fun way to add a little "green" to the day and cure the case of cabin fever that was starting to overcome me after 3 straight weeks of cold temps, gray skies and snow, lots of snow.  So I signed us up and I dragged my sister along for the fun too.

The girls loved the class and had fun learning (I love learning like that) about what they can do with their plants.  Even better was that we each came home with 2 plants and 2 different plant leaves to try to propagate ourselves.  In all we ended up with 9 new varieties of succulents, it should have only been 8 but I may have snagged up the leaf that fell off the one plant, hey someone had to take it right.

And look the Oldest Daughter has already put one to good use as part of our Easter center piece on the dining room table.