my green thumb

i was at a garage sale a couple weeks ago and bought two pots for $2.  i thought i'd try to liven up our balcony a little bit and bring in some spring colors.  so today, i am making my first attempt at trying to keep some flowers closer to alive than dead for an extended period of time.

i don't know anything about gardening.  i usually over water things, causing whatever it is to drown.  although, mike and i have somehow managed to keep one houseplant alive, but i think the plant actually refuses to die.  when we moved to our apartment, i swear the plant was on its last leg--leaves super droopy and starting to turn brown--and so i just set it outside to wait for it to die.  mike decided it still had some life to it, watered it, and a couple days later it bounced back.  the plant has fought numerous times for its own life that i feel like i owe it to the plant to keep watering it.  so i do, and it's still alive.

but flowers are a whole other category that i know will require much more tlc than i have offered to my house plant.  we'll see.  

but this is what they look like on day 1.  aren't they pretty?