I Love Plants

Soooo...as I believe I have already mentioned, I have a SMALL love affair with plants. My very favorite one is this little ivy that I have right by the front door. The only problem is that this little plant is a lot more finicky than any of my other plants (it turns out that I don't get along with anything finicky), and therefore, it pretends like it's going to die about every two weeks. I have to go through and yank out all of the dead and dying parts and prop is up so it looks semi normal until the next dying takes place. I talk to it nicely and give it lots of attention but it doesn't seem to be responding. It can't die because I can't replace it - Husband told me that I was banned from buying any more plants (I think I counted fourteen of them this morning). Of course, that was six months ago. Maybe he's forgotten...