House Plant update

I tend to kill plants pretty easily, but I really wanted to try again. I mentioned a few posts ago that I found $1 house plants at HEB and felt safe buying them. If they die, at least they were only a $1.

I thought I would give you an update:

2 out of the 3 are doing pretty well.

The third one, as you can see is sad, wilted, and appears to be dying.

Those of you with green thumbs out there...any thoughts?
Its pretty demoralizing because it started to look like this literally the day after it came home with me.

I have been watering each of them once a week, although the sickly one seems to dry out more quickly so I have watered it twice this past week.

My mom also passed on one of her basil plants to me. I baby it, because we love basil around here and it is way to expensive to buy fresh herbs. She told me it needs full sun, and our apartment doesn't really have a spot that gets full sun (most of the time this is great because it decreases our electric bill). So to keep my basil happy and alive I move it around throughout the day (on the days I am home) to catch full sun - by our front door in the mornings, on the patio table in the afternoons. It seems to be doing very well too. :)

Happy Basil in the Afternoon:

It is sitting on our porch table. When we first got the table and chairs (for free from my parents' neighbors!Thanks!) I had grand hopes of having dinners out there often...it has only happened once so far. But the weather has been nice lately so maybe we will get in one more patio dinner before the winter sets in - it literally moves from summer to winter here.