hi everyone it's marianne
and welcome to My Wasteless Life
so for today's vlog you get to spend the day with me
right now i'm at the merrifield garden center in virginia
and i'm going to check out what they have
it's my very first time here it's quite far from my place about a 40 minute drive
so that's why i've never been here before
but people in my facebook plant group always
rave about this place and they always have pretty good finds
so i'm gonna see what they have it's a very windy day and they're busy they're doing a lot of work
so there's going to be a lot of background noise
hopefully i'll be able to get good footage along with audio
if not i'm probably just gonna do a voice over
and after that i'm gonna go get lunch and then go for my second microblading appointment
i need to get my eyebrows retouched and i don't know
it looks a little bit uneven to me like especially in this corner so i'm just gonna let her know that
and see if we can still salvage it but i don't know do you notice it because i do notice it
especially when i do that tik tok inverted filter i could definitely see how uneven it is
but in person it doesn't
seem to be an even but in pictures and definitely in video i definitely notice it
so hopefully there's something i can get fixed today
but yeah so let's go ahead and head into the garden center and see what they have
water lettuce
oh wow that's crazy
look at that
they have a station where they can pot your plants for you which i thought was really convenient
and really easy especially if you're very new to plants
and they got the outdoor favorites zinnias coleus they have different varieties
and they also have caladiums of every different kind
i think i really like this point one and i know some people treat caladiums as houseplants
but for me they're really more of outdoor plants and they do die off in the winter
over here they have the birds of paradise
thes stromanthe triostar plant and some elephant ear
they have two different kinds here
and some begonias and african violets
and i'm not really sure what this silver one is i know it's a type of begonia
just not sure what specifically the type of variety it is but it looks cool
they have a wide selection of succulents and cacti
and as you can see they also have the single leaf hoya kerrii over here a huge
beautiful golden pothos on a moss pole
got some philodendrons over here also a rubber tree
i think that's the burgundy one or just a regular rubber tree
more succulent and cacti selection a string of pearls over here
string of dolphins this used to be hard to find along with a string of pearls now it's very common
i thought that was a hoya linearis but it's not
string of turtles again this one too is becoming more widely available
before this was so hard to find
tradescantia fluminesis lime and a peperomia pixie
and this is the zebrina pendula quadricolor
and i've been looking for this plant actually it's one of my wishlist plant
and it looks very pretty
bonsai section this looks like my ficus benjamina snow white but it's not the same one
and lots of huge floor plants
a very fenestrated monstera deliciosa look at that beauty
some baby monstera and baby burgundy rubber tree i
still wish they had the tineke still looking out for that one
rhaphidophra tetraspherma, philodendron birkins and some mosntera adansonii
and lots of pothos
have the syngonium over here
and marble queen pothos at the back
and some goldfish plant
and i think this one is the ficus altissima not the ficus audrey
another beautiful golden pothos
and some hoya carnosas hoya crimson queens
and down here you got the prayer plants
the peperomia obstofulia
alocasia poly
more rhaphidophra tetraspurma and a bit of a selection of calatheas
more birkins and aglaoenamas
when it comes to floor plants they definitely do have a wide selection
and this is a huge philodendron over here
you got the palms the ficus the birds of paradise
your monsteras and zz plants
some spanish moss and air plants
and a wide selection of pots pretty much any type of pot you can find here
and here's a final walk around of the greenhouse
okay so i just left the garden center and it's a
very huge place it's really more for like outdoor stuff
and they have a wide selection they pretty much have everything there
and at times it's almost like walking around a botanical garden
that's how expensive and many choices their outdoor garden center is
and when you go inside the main store it's a very huge place basically
equivalent to a hardware store
where you can find almost everything that you need for gardening and landscaping and whatnot
and they also have like gift shops that are really pretty i managed to take some footage of that
and then they have the greenhouse and i really like the greenhouse it was packed with plants
they have a wide selection but at the same time if you're like
me you already have like quite a lot of plants in your collection
you pretty much have many of the plants that they already have in their greenhouse
so if you're looking for something a little bit more uncommon or a little bit more rare
i don't think this is the place to go
but if you're just starting to build up your plant collection they have everything and anything here
and especially if you're looking for like floor plants
they have amazing ficus monsteras birds of paradise palms zz plants snake plants
and they also have a good selection of orchids
and succulents and cacti pretty much the popular plants they have it here
and the only thing that i got was a couple of pots
these are four inch terracotta pots but they're like painted white or granite
and it's 199 each and i got two of them and i think this is gonna
be good for a couple plants that i do need to transplant
and as much as i love terra cotta during the summer it means a lot more frequent watering
but when they're painted like this or they're glazed like this
it doesn't wick out the moisture as fast if it's just like a regular terracotta pot f
or house plants i did get one
which is this one and this one is the zebrina pendula quadricolor it is a type of tradescantia
and it is labeled as a bonsai companion i did get it for 3.99
and i kind of have something like this already which is a tradescnatia fluminessis bianca
but that one is not variegated and it doesn't produce leaves that are completely pink or white
so that's the only plant that caught my eye while i was there
and yeah so right now i'm heading to annandale at the block for lunch just to kill time
before my microblading appointment
so i'll see you when we get there
the block in annandale virginia is a food court of mainly asian food
it's my first time here a lot smaller than i thought would be but great food selection
and i got the spicy ahi tuna poke bowl and some boba of course
had some more time to kill so there's a thrift store next door i'm gonna check it out
books let's see if there's one that i like
yeah not much of a selection
and over here just kids books
here's some terracotta
3.99 this is an expensive thrift store
that's so cute
i swear to god we have the same exact one at home that we also probably donated to a thrift store
this is made in england i don't know if it's worth something because it's like 15
let's try out this goodwill
yes so i just got done with lunch actually i've got done with lunch a while ago
but i did stop by the thrift store and goodwill i didn't really find anything
they don't really have anything good
but i also wasn't looking for anything specifically
but yes and i'm heading to my microblading appointment
i don't know how much of that i am going to show or film
but i guess before i end the vlog i will show you the after
so this is kind of like
the before of my eyebrows and i don't think it's going to be that much different
except it's going to be a lot darker and hopefully a little bit more even
but yeah
so first i'm going to show you clips from a month ago
so you can see what my original eyebrows look like
it is pretty thin that's why i want it to be filled out and to look a little bit more even
and i was able to capture some of the process
and first she waxed my eyebrows just to clean it up
and then put some numbing cream on it for about 30 minutes before she
mapped it out to the shape that i want
and went ahead with the actual microblading session
the pain level was still there even though there was numbing cream
and she placed ink on it
and here's what it looks like after the first session
and here it is a month later which is present time before my second session
and for the second session is pretty much the same process
just a lot shorter since she's just going over the work she did
i look like an anime character here
but here is the after
so yeah so here's the after i think she did even out a little bit i don't know how well though
i will see when i get home but so far so good
everything's a pretty good job it's not as dark as last time
which is i'm glad for and and i think the aftercare is a little bit shorter this time
i still cannot get it wet
but yeah and then next year i only have to come back once
just to maintain it it should last for two to three years
but if i go for touch-ups every year it should last pretty long or at least at the same quality
that's it for today's vlog thank you so much for spending the day with me
i hope you enjoyed it thank you so much for watching
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bye