finally FILLING MY HOME WITH PLANTS! 🪴 THRIFT, plant shop & garden with me!

Well, you can definitely say today we've got our work cut out for us. Because you see all of these? All of these beauties? We are going to add and infuse some life into them. And if you want to know what I'm talking about, we're going to get right into it. But all of this, it's going to require a whole lot of energy, which requires a whole lot of caffeine. So let's make ourselves a nice iced latte to take with us to go. Well, hey, babes. What is up, it's Hailey. And welcome back to my channel. How needed is this big to-go cup going to be today? Because we have so many things to do, both outside of the house and in. And you can already kind of see where this is headed. As if I don't have enough responsibilities in my life already, for some reason, I decided to tackle on more. So yes, not only is Hailey giving herself the title of mom of three, hopefully by the end of today's video, I'm officially going to give myself the title of a plant mom. Because, you know, as much as you guys see me do so much stuff around the house, whether it is thrift flips, renovations, adding vintage character and charm to every corner of this place, something that this home is definitely missing is some life and greenery. No, really, as if three kids wasn't enough already, I'm going to adopt you some plant siblings today because all of these pots and planters, you guys, we need to fill them up. In our last vlog, you guys saw me go ahead and start making over the patio and it's looking so, so good. But I told you right now we have so much artificial trees, artificial vines going on that we needed to add a touch of the real, real plants, real trees and hopefully a real herb garden that I could actually go ahead and use whenever I am cooking my meal. Because truly, you guys, I actually grew up in a house that was filled with plants. My mom has such a green thumb and plants absolutely flourish in her home and I grew up seeing that and I want my kids to also grow up seeing that. So together, you and me, whether you have zero experience with plants or gardening, we're going to do it all together because I'm learning as well. And with the huge list of plants that you guys recommended that I get, I could definitely say that I feel more confident than ever. So with that being said, let's head on our way because our first stop is a waiting. But before we get our hands down and dirty, we got to do a couple of different errands, which includes stopping by the thrift store, going to Home Depot to buy the actual plants and also hopefully finding ourselves a dining room set for the patio because that's the one thing that we are still missing. So let's hope that our first destination brings us one step closer. So, hey Siri, take me to red, white and blue thrift store. Getting directions to red, white and blue thrift store. Okay, you guys, we just pulled up at our thrift store and because I had to go ahead and do a thread up return, the UPS is literally right next to the thrift store. Thought I might as well pop in because the one thing that I have still not been able to find myself is a dining table and some chairs that we can use for the outdoors. It's been a week, maybe they've restocked on some new items. So a bit of errands, a bit of thrifting, let's do it. All right, you guys, we made it in and I quickly skipped over the clothing section, came right to the furniture. I did like a quick little spin. I couldn't really find anything for the patio. There is a few more items I want to check out before we leave. I noticed something that they have a lot here is a lot of vases but not really pots and planters. All of the stone pots and planters you guys actually saw me put on my countertop in the beginning of the video, those are from Walmart and those little ones are $15 a piece, brand new. But I am glad that it brought me over here because I actually found something that would look so nice in the backyard. Look at these, you guys. These are some wall sconces that would be so pretty in the backyard. Imagine a garden bed with a bunch of flowers and then these on the wall. And there's a pair of two, which is perfect to put on both sides of the window. The thing is, obviously these are meant for candles and I'm going to be putting them outside but I actually saw that there are some like battery-operated outdoor lamps that you can put in here. I think that would look so cool. Have it turn on at night. How pretty. Finding those lanterns made me want to come to this metal section and I'm so glad that I did because you guys, this has actually been something that I've been wanting and it is actually a plant hanger. I love anything that has this kind of spindle details on it. This is what gives it that Italian rustic vibe. There are a lot of places in my backyard that have blank white walls so I actually think putting a little plant hanger like this with a nice plant hanging from it, hopefully something voluminous and green that will add so much life to the space and it's only $3 too. Oh my god, you guys. I am such a sucker for a good picnic basket. Anything to romanticize your lunch, why not? The girls are gonna absolutely love this. It has like a quilted inside, the gingham, the lace. This is so cute. Given the fact that we're gonna be having lunches outside, if I ever want to carry something from the kitchen to the backyard all in one shot, a basket like this is perfect and you guys, just take a look at these plant stands. Oh my god. Literally, if I got these, this would transform my backyard into a gorgeous European courtyard. They are $200. Oh my god, but they're not even stone but the details on this is so pretty. Okay, well, no luck today so I guess I'm gonna go ahead and browse Facebook Marketplace more tonight. Hopefully, we'll find ourself a really nice patio set by the end of this video so that I could share it to you but let's go on. I'm gonna finish my errands and then we're gonna head back home because Erin just told me that a really exciting delivery has just been made and it's actually our plant stands for our huge garden beds and I am so excited to build it so let's head on back home. Okay, you guys, just came back home and Erin brought in my delivery and I am so excited to get to building but this is basically what we got. We got two of these. These are the acorn brown planter boxes and they are so pretty. Okay, picture this. You guys remember on my patio, we basically have so many windows which is awesome but we actually don't have any soil when it comes to my backyard because we put down artificial grass and we have our concrete patio so I needed a way that we can add plants and plants obviously need soils so then I came across these planters on Amazon. They are so pretty. The prettiest scale of detail. I got them in a really nice chocolatey brown and I actually got two of these to go alongside each of my windows that are next to my patio doors to kind of create some symmetry of planter boxes. I want to build these and stuff them with like either really pretty colorful flowers or even with herbs because I do want to have an herb garden in my backyard. I just don't know yet what kind of system I want to place for it. You guys, I've actually come to appreciate so much filming in this time of the day. It is currently 7 30 p.m and the sun is down and I feel a little breeze and we can finally get to building our planters and okay, this is what I'm envisioning. I'm thinking to do one planter right here and then one planter right here. Have to get rid of this light fixture, this mirror. Maybe I could keep it and just make it look a little cuter. We also still have the old remnants of our pergola which is so ugly that I need to go ahead and repaint and if you want to know how the floor is holding up, pretty good. It does have a little bit of dirt on it only because this past weekend we already took advantage of our backyard and we had to move all of the furniture against the fence because we actually rented out a blow-up slide but a huge one. We had it right on up here. We invited all of my kids friends to come over and truly it was so enjoyable. It was just us millennial parents giving our kids that 90s childhood that we always dreamed of giving them. We had the best time. So we're already putting this patio to good use. So this is the moment of truth because when I saw the picture online they did look like they were very chocolatey brown which is what I want. The only thing that I'm scared of is if this actually looks like redwood like cherry wood which I really don't hope for. I mean we could always paint it but of course the less work I have to do the better. So let's see. All right, let's see. Okay, you know what? This is actually a pretty accurate chocolate brown I would say and this is what the final planter is going to look like. All right, Hayley the builder is about to come out. Let's get this built. You guys the box is built and I have to say it's beautiful. It's really wide. There's so much space in here. Like I'm so excited. This is not going to be like a little poor little garden. It's going to be actually something pretty prominent. The first one is built. The last step is actually to go in and put in this fabric. Basically the amazing thing about this planter is that it comes with this little sheet that you put inside. That way I could put soil, I could put the dirt and then whenever it rains there is a drainage system underneath. You see through all of these holes right here but the best part is because I'm going to go in and put that fabric it's going to keep any of the dirt and soil from actually seeping through. Only the water is going to go through so it's going to help keep our patio very clean. So that's the last step and then we'll build number two. Okay, they're both done. There's one and there is two and I have to say the second one I breezed right through it. Literally took me 15 minutes but I am already seeing the massive potential. I mean obviously once everything is like cleaned up, once we add the pots with the bigger trees with everything embedded, all the furniture back in its place it'll all come together, just trust me. So glad that we were able to set this up and now we're all ready for tomorrow. We're going to come along with me and we're going to start the plant shopping and also do the gardening. I just cannot wait to meet all of my new plant children. So stay tuned, that's tomorrow. We are going to be calling this the inspiration corner. I thought to myself last night, okay I have absolutely no idea where to start when it comes to looking for plants. We are going to do a quick little list, a quick little inspiration mood board of everything that I want to buy for the garden and this is actually something that I always do whenever I'm doing a room makeover. You know, I grab myself a snack, I chill and I just put together all of my ideas on what I want to do in this space. My snack of choice today, snackish potato chips. Guys, every time I come across a new snack that I love, I always share it with you and these are so freaking good. You know how much I've been trying to get my protein in? So when I saw that this has eight grams of protein per serving, I was like okay, I can get my snack on, get my protein in at the same time because I don't know about you, I'm not one of those people that could have five chips and be done. Like I gotta eat this thing to the bottom. But let's be real, that's the way snacking should be. With how much I love these, I'm so happy that I'm partnering with them today to let you know that these are available right now on Target, on Amazon or on esnackish.com. Whenever you're in a mood where you're feeling snackish, hence the name, try these. I really think you guys are gonna love them. The barbecue flavor is amazing too. It's got the protein, it's got the gut healthy fiber, it's made with 100% avocado oil. So next time you're doing your little Target run, pick these up, you're not gonna regret it. And now as I get my munch on, gonna keep these babies right here next to me as we go on ahead and get all our inspiration going. Because sitting here in my beautiful thrifted chair, I can feel the inspiration coming. So let's get started. The best inspiration that I get is whatever you guys recommend to me. In two of my previous videos, I asked you guys to compile a list for me of plans for inside the house and plans for outside the house. This is not something that we're gonna be able to complete in one day. We have to really narrow in and focus on a couple of different areas. So the two things I mainly wanna accomplish today is number one, filling my outdoor garden beds. Those two that we built with the scallops, I wanna fill those with florals and with herbs to add some like life and greenery to the backyard. That's real and not artificial. And then the other thing we wanna do is just add a couple of plants to the indoors of our house. So let's start off with the herbs, especially the ones I wanna add into my kitchen. Obviously, I want things that I'm actually gonna use, but I also want them to be aesthetically pleasing to the eye. In my home, we wanna narrow in on more of a cottagecore aesthetic. So we want the plants to be airy and delicate with space and elegant without feeling too tropical. Here are the few plants that you guys suggested to me that I am adding to my list. The three plants I wanna get that are herbs for the space are going to be basil, which of course I love basil. I add it into everything. We got rosemary and we got lavender. Lavender, I absolutely just love the smell of it. And I actually feel like if I prop it up in an area of my kitchen, maybe even next to my trash can, that will make the area smell so much better and also make it look prettier too. What I love about rosemary is the way that it grows. It kind of grows up into a little tree and it's got these pines on them that are just a gorgeous shade of sage green. I would love it if I found myself a tiny little olive tree to prop up in like my kitchen on the windowsill. I feel like that would be so nice. But like a tiny real olive tree, I don't know if they're gonna have that. And then something I really wanted is one of those plants that hang over and a pothos plant. So many of you recommended. When it comes to the backyard, I wrote a list of like different plant names, which I don't even want to try to say them and butcher them. But I'm gonna pop up some inspiration pictures of what it is that I was thinking. I really wanted this to feel like a wispy European garden, but I wanted some color in there. Maybe some little white flowers, some little blue flowers, because over time I want them to grow and fill up and look fluffy just like this. Overall, you guys, this is the entire vision board that I was able to come up with in this inspiration corner of what it is that I want for this space. And at this point we are ready to go. So let me take you guys on downstairs because I actually just got another backyard delivery that for once, I'm not the one that has to build it. And in a really fun turn of events, I'm actually leaving the house and he's getting to work. Yeah, cause I'm taking out these boxes. As I'm gonna go and do the fun stuff for once and buy the plants and all the pretty stuff, he's actually gonna get down and get to working on some storage boxes that we got for the outside. Because you guys may remember in my last video, we got a ton of outdoor pillows and I haven't had a place to put them outside. I don't want them to get ruined. So they've just been chilling in the back of my couch. So I started browsing storage containers and on Wayfair, I came across a huge one for such a good price. I'm gonna get him to hopefully build it. And hopefully it will be done by the time I'm back. Eran, it's a box. You could put a box together. If I could tile a kitchen backsplash at nine months pregnant, you could put a box together, my love. I believe in you. How fun. I cannot wait to be surprised as soon as I come on home. But in the meantime, let's get to the fun stuff and let's get to buying our new little plants. Ilyana, are you excited too? Are you excited too? I'm so excited! It's a hot one. Good thing we're going to a store where everything's going to be outside. So hey Siri, take me to the Home Depot. Getting directions to the Home Depot. Home Depot or Lowe's, like for me, they're one in the same when it comes to buying plants. The reason I came here though is because I have some sealer that I actually purchased from here for the patio because so many of you recommended that I seal it so that it won't be stained and I bought the wrong one. This one is meant for concrete and not for painted surfaces. So I still need to do some research on what I can possibly get to actually like seal the patio so that it looks nice for longer and the light areas won't get stained so easily. And you can definitely say that I'm ready. I've got my floral overalls, my floral shoes too, which are truly the most adorable thing ever. And this plant mom is looking to grow her family. So let's go adopt some plant babies. You guys, everything here is just so pretty. Like I walked in and I immediately felt the life be breathed into me. So let's make it easy. Let's start off with the houseplants, the stuff that are going to be going inside of my house. And when determining what kind of houseplants exactly I need, the main thing I wanted to pay attention to, obviously other than maintenance and care, is saturation. You're probably thinking, huh? What does that mean? I want you to look at the green tone of the plants that is that you want to add into your home and see if it matches your vibe. So with these plants right behind me, a lot of them you see have different tones. Some have some yellow undertones, some are like super green, very leafy and saturated, which give off more of a tropical feel. Very much like these palm-esque looking plants. For example, something that I love is a pothos plant, but you can even see that among pothos plants, there's different kinds. There's a golden pothos, which has a little bit variations in the leaves. They're the ones that are a deeper green. And then they have these ones right here, which are a little bit more pale, have more of that sage color, but it's still a relative to a pothos. And in my old house, I don't know if you guys remember, I actually had one that grew all the way down to the floor and I loved it. But that's why I'm actually so happy to see that they have this beautiful, like lighter, almost sagey kind of pothos plant. It's already starting to hang, which is amazing. One of the best things that you can keep in your house is herbs. Because herbs, not only can you actually use them in your foods, in your cooking, in your baking, but a lot of the time, they also leave such a beautiful scent in your home. A couple of herbs that I love the look of, this is lavender. I love how it kind of like drapes, gives it a very whimsy cottagecore feel. And then you have your rosemary. These look so good in one of those vintage inspired plant pots because of the fact that the plant stands up and it's such a gorgeous sage green. We've got our basil as well. And you know what? I want to work my way through this whole herb section. So let's do it. Let's start adopting some herbies. For the lavender, I really want one that already has some of that draping going on because I love the look. This one seems to be thriving. When it comes to rosemary, some of them are already taller than others. I don't want one that is too wild. So I think I'm going to start with her instead because she's a little bit shorter. And oh, I love the smell of rosemary. And then of course, some of my favorite herbs, basil in everything. Literally, pastas, soups, toast. I love basil. So let's grab one of that. And one of my personal favorite other herbs is spearmint because I love making nana tea, you know, just hot water with this or you blend it with some lemonade. Absolutely the best drink ever. It's what I grew up on. The thing you do want to keep in mind with mint, something that everybody already told me off the bat, mint needs to be potted separately always because apparently it's a very invasive plant. It kind of likes to take over and grow over everything. So she is getting her own little pot for sure. All right, so now that we have a lot of our herbs for our outdoor garden station, okay, we've got a good amount of indoor plants and now let's work on our planter boxes outside the scalloped ones. Starting with this, the back row, you want to have an anchor row. You want the taller plants to be sitting there. So what I'm thinking, the back row in the middle, a rosemary plant. They're very, very tall and I need something just as tall to put next to it, but I really wanted something that blooms. So I came across these. These are called pentas. I think that's how it's pronounced. They're not super expensive, but they have a lot of height. They bloom from the spring to the fall and they have the prettiest little flowers. It looks just like star jasmine. I feel like these to fill up the back of my planters would be stunning. So let's grab two for each. Our stack is building up and truly I don't want these planters to just be bland and white. I want them to have a little bit of color. So I actually just came across these and I think a hint of this could look so beautiful. Guys, this is called an Evolvuls. Oh my God, I cannot pronounce plant names for my life. But take a look at these gorgeous blue little flowers. I actually think that this right next to this, what a pretty combination. That would be stunning. So let me grab a four of these as well. And I don't know, is it just me? Why did I think plants were so much more expensive? Of course, this is going to add up. These are perennial plants. They are plants that you plant once and every year they come back on their own. So really it's an investment. At least that's what I'm telling myself. Guys, this is actually a problem. I'm already running out of room. I feel like I have to leave it in my car and come back. My mission to add more color and next to the blue days that you saw that I got, I actually see these gorgeous little purple flowers. These are perennial as well, meaning that you plant them once and they keep coming back every single year. What are these called? It's called cuppy, cup hay. I actually need to go to plant name school. But I actually think sprinkling in a couple of these next to the blue days with some white flowers in between can look so pretty. And they are actually selling full little boxes of these for just $20. So that way I can grab it and like plant a bunch wherever I feel like there's sparse areas. So I'm going to grab two for sure. And then for the white flowers to put in between, I feel like these white vincas, vincas are so pretty. I'm so excited to add all this color to the backyard. So let me grab two or three of these per planter. Okay, and very important, not to forget, when it comes to potting soil, because of the fact that, well, our planters have no soil in them whatsoever, we're going to need a lot of these. And these are the 50 quart bags, but I don't want to be out here schlepping 50 quarts of soil. I think I need like three to four bags. So I'm going to see if Home Depot can deliver that because that would be nice. But at this point, I think we have everything we need and I don't know how long this will take me. Maybe I'll only complete the garden beds today. Maybe the herb garden will have to wait for another day, but I'm about to get me a green thumb. So let's head on home. It's a good thing that I had the bags from these thrift finds over here. And I was able to keep everything safe, but everybody good, everybody buckled in. Let me take you to your new home. So the time has officially come. Hailey the builder is about to turn into Hailey the gardener. I got my hair up because it is so hot. Like I'm already breaking a sweat. I was kind of like procrastinating on doing this this morning. I was like, oh, let me have a snack. Oh, let me make myself a drink. Oh, let me do the laundry. But at this point can't procrastinate anymore. We've got all of our lovely plants sitting right over here and ready for them to be planted into our boxes. I had Aaron already bring in some of the soil from the front when they delivered it. We do have a couple more, but this should be the easy part, right? You just put in the soil, find your placement and put in the plants. Follow along you guys. My trial and error will hopefully keep you from having a bad trial and error. So let me be your guinea pig here and let's get gardening. Yo, I sweat. I am sweaty. But the sweat is worth it because my two planter boxes are officially finished. Look at them. They're so pretty. Listen, keep in mind, this is actually the worst that it's going to look because obviously the flowers need to bloom and I have to water the soil down right now really well because when you just go ahead and plant some flowers, you got to soak the soil to the point that it's going to start leaking from the bottom. But you guys, it is so beautiful. I cannot wait for all the little blue flowers to start blooming here, the white flowers to start growing. These two flowers in the back are going to get giant and my whole reason as to putting them in front of the window is so that when my cafe curtains are open, you can see them. And then same thing on this side, whenever my living room curtains are open, you'll be able to see them as well. They're looking a little bit sad right now, so I got to water these babies, get them nice and hydrated so that they can settle into their new home. All right, they are all nice and hydrated. I am so excited for when these flowers are going to get so big and tall, but that's not going to be the only florals we're going to have in the patio. We're definitely going to get more. But guys, before that, please take a look. As much as those planters are really pretty, look at the mess that is left over behind. Eliana is watching me right over there, but I got to go and clean this up. But as always, I'm going to put it off for later because I have to go pick up the girls and bring them home. But I have to say, I do feel like we got so much done in today's video. And for the first time ever, I gained a little bit of experience of what it's like to garden with real plants. That being said, this is where I'm going to need your help at this point. Because yes, as much as we have our garden planters, I do want this backyard to have so much more florals surrounding it. So this is what I was thinking. You guys saw these huge planters that I got from Walmart. I basically got each in a set of two. These smaller rounded ones are probably where I'm going to make my full herb garden. One probably just for mint, and then another one for things like basil and rosemary, sage, lavender, all of that kind of stuff, probably going to put into these. But then I have these two bigger, more tall planters that I love so much. They're going to give such a European feel to the space. And what I'm actually thinking to go ahead and plant in these are climbing trees or standalone trees. This is where I need your help. Basically, something that I love that we have in Florida here are these gorgeous and vibrant florals that you pretty much see year round. What I love about them is how bright and colorful they are. And I really want to go ahead and add a couple to the backyard. But because we don't have actual soil, I'm going to be planting them into these planters as a good base for them to grow. Okay, I wrote it down. The plants that I'm considering are our white mandevilla, which is basically a standalone tree, just like this. It has beautiful white blooms. Then we have the bougainvillea, which is the very typical Florida florals that you see. The vibrant pink, they are so gorgeous. And they add a lot of Mediterranean charm, I would say. And then finally, we have our star jasmine. This is something that I'm already set on. For sure, I want to have some star jasmine. Star jasmine is basically a climbing tree that can end up like this. You could put it on your house, you could put it by the fence. Something that I know for sure I'm going to be getting is some star jasmine. I'm going to be planting it in here. And I want it to grow. I want it to grow tall, I want it to grow big, and I want it to grow wide. All right, obviously ignore the mess that we have going on. I have to hose out all of the soil that spilled over while I was gardening. But keeping in mind all of our planters, I need your guys' help in deciding where to plant my star jasmine. Option number one is to go ahead and kind of frame our doorway. I would put a planter over here and a planter over here with some star jasmine that it can start climbing up this way. Then maybe we could even add more to the ends of the house. So we could put another planter here and another planter on that side and have the star jasmine basically climbing up the entire side of the house. What do you guys think of that? That's option number one. The other option can be to go ahead and align our fence. We have our white fence over here. So we can go ahead and have some star jasmine covering this fence over time. And we could do that on both sides over here and then along on that side as well. So those are basically our three options. We have adding star jasmine to the whole wall of our house, adding it to our side white fences or adding it to the greenery behind me. Which option do you think will kind of be best? Okay, and when it comes to these planters, we basically have four color options of the kind of tree that I should get as like my accent tree. And you guys let me know what color you think would go nicest in the color scheme because this has been the hardest decision ever and you guys can really help me out. First of all, we can play it safe and we could just get a tree with white florals. These white florals, they bloom almost constantly and they look really, really beautiful. Very luxurious too. Against a green backdrop, I would love it. Then when it comes to the actual colors, we have three options. The first one is we have this deep, beautiful purple. I do already have purple in my planters, so that can definitely match. The second option we have is this really, really bright, beautiful pink. I don't have any pink right now at all, but I have been seeing a lot of photos with like a touch of pink in these European backyards and I absolutely love the look of that. And then finally, we have the third color, which is this fuchsia. It's kind of like a mix between the red and the pink. This is like your classic hibiscus color that you would see in Florida. And it's really, really beautiful with star jasmine as well. So that's another option. So the two things from you. Of these four, comment down below which floral tree color I should get, as well as where you think the star jasmine would look best in in the backyard. With all that, you guys, I feel like we got so much done, but truly, I only had the emotional capacity to do the outdoors today. Looks like we're going to have to save the indoors for the next vlog, which I already have a couple of my plants sitting right here patiently waiting for me. It's good that they're actually thriving here outside anyway. But comment down below what you guys think of my garden beds. If you had any suggestions for me, any changes, the potential, I'm telling you, it's going to be so beautiful once everything is growing and blooming. And I already feel like this was such a good first step in me teaching myself to garden and to teach myself to do things that I'm usually scared of. I am feeling a lot more confident as a plant mom right now, but I still have a long way to go. With all that being said, you guys, thank you so much for watching. If you are watching up to this point, you know that you're the real MVP. I love the ones that stick around all the way till the end. If you are watching up to this point, then comment down below, born to bloom. Because today, I became an adoptive mom. These children were reborn and now they are in my home and I'm so excited to take care of them alongside my actual children that I'm taking care of. You are literally the light of my life. I know because I'm hot. She even has flowers on her own dress too. But you guys, comment that down below, born to bloom. Love you all forever and always. Thank you so much for watching and I cannot wait to see you. Bye guys!