There are many ways to be nurtured - by food, love, laughter, or the companionship of living, breathing plants. I mean, if not for these glowing beacons of green, how do gardeners get through winter, anyway?
If there are gardeners among ye who don't have indoor plants, you're missing the only type of garden you will ever grow that can be renovated in minutes. Shift the nicest plants to high-visibility table tops, or move tired ones to a cool place to rest, and you have a fresh interiorscape.
I like to play with my plants in the daytime, when birds from goldfinches (in dull winter plumage) to wrens come to get seeds I put on the deck. On snowy days I break out the good stuff - a finch mix that includes nyjer seeds - and the show never stops.
Feeding this close to windows actually results in fewer bird-window collisions than placing feed farther away. Plus, deer won't come on the second story deck to get the bird seed!
