Johannian said: 
to NGA, Philip! We're so glad to have you. It sounds like you're on the right road to becoming a real green thumb, so keep it up! I myself am on that road as well. Everything I seem to plant dies, but I'm trying new things and hoping I have more success with each new growing season that comes around. 
Johannian I know what you mean. My wife jokes about how I've killed almost every house plant we have. She'll send me posts about "hard to kill plants" and tag it with "you done killed all of these" lol. The funny thing is I used to do well growing house plants especially the easy to grow kind but more temperamental flowers like African violets I couldn't grow. Now it's the reverse. My African violets and orchid are doing wonderful while I struggle to grow the easy stuff like snake plants or dumb cane.
