Both my mom and my dad have major green thumbs. It runs deep in my family, and so I am also fond of plants. Growing up was wonderful. My parents would always have plants everywhere, and all kinds to boot! We had indoor plants, outdoor plants, a greenhouse, fruit trees, flowering plants, vegetable gardens, and all sorts or other varieties.
But after I went to college and started living on my own, I stopped having the same advantages as my parents have growing up. Today I live in a one bedroom apartment. I've got two windows - one that is double wide, east-facing, and tinted in the living room that starts at the floor and is about as tall as the door, and a west-facing one in my bedroom that's about half the size vertically. Needless to say I have limited access to sunlight, and limited space for my plants to grow! That doesn't stop me from collecting more and more plants though!
Even though I don't have a private patio, I do have a second floor walkway. I put a few sunlight needy plants outside on the patio including my Knock Out Rose which really wishes it would be planted in the ground, my Angel Wing Begonia, a philodendron and Kalanchoe. I have filled up my bedroom window with all the succulents I can fit. That window gets the most direct sunlight. The other windowsill holds my Ponytail palms, a fern, a bromiliad, and my African Violets. And lastly, I keep my few Tillandsia in my bathroom. I have switched one of the bathroom light fixtures with a grow bulb and the Tillandsia seem to be growing well there.
