New Plant, Clean Room

So I've been wanting to get another plant for my bedroom for a while. I have a peace lily that used to be there and now it's an office plant that I really don't want to move. Two weeks ago when I was in MA, I talked to my friend and massage therapist, Irit, and she suggested a bamboo plant. She told me they are easy to take care of, grow inside very well, and don't even require soil!

So when I got back here, I searched bamboo out (which wasn't hard- it was at the local grocery store!) and bought two stalks (which also wasn't hard- $5 per stalk!). After I brought it home yesterday, I looked the plant up on google to figure out more about how to not kill it and ran across this website: http://www.chiff.com/a/lucky-bamboo.htm. I guess what I got was actually "Lucky Bamboo," which is technically not bamboo at all, but in the same family as lilies...

Anyway, this beautiful plant sitting in my messy room just did not match its surroundings, so I took the evening to "Tidy OOP!" as Ulla says in The Producers (more on this later. I'm playing trombone in the show at Coeur d'Alene Summer Theater). It was a good relaxing evening. Here are the results:


And here is my room, technically the guest bedroom at my parents' house, with a few of my own additions, of course: