I haven’t always had a green thumb. In all honesty, I still don’t. But I’m making progress.

One time, when I was still newish to Wyoming and still bacheloretting it up, one of my older and wiser friends casually asked if my hyper-ass dog Reagan tries to eat plants.

I responded: “I don’t know, I don’t have any plants.”

At which point, my friend enlightened me to the fact that I was living as some kind of plantless MONSTER (little did I know).

Ah, to be young and dumb.

But look at me now! All married, and mature, and owner of houseplants. I’m a regular old housewife. Or so I would have you think.

Not all of the plants that I’ve owned in my robust adult life have survived. BUT. Some have. They really do make a home feel more cozy, and they clean the air! So here are some of my tried-and-true, hard-to-kill favorites!