Greatest investments

I always need or want an S on the end of my greatest lists. Why have one greatest when you can have many and why need to analyse and quantify things to such details that you can pick one single favourite amongst all the options.
Though saying that, this is an easy one me. My plants are my single greatest investment. If my house had appreciated in value as much as my plants, our Californian spanish mission bungalow would now be worth $7,000,000. My plants have been the single best growth investment I have made. One day fifteen years before I want to escape the city I will buy some land and start to plant it out for my arrival. I know that will be one of the best investments for my lazy days.

I invest a lot of time with my children, but they are souls not investment, so they don't count.
Sometimes when I am writing I feel I add a few too many words, an unrequired explanation. I think this is over-compensation from my verbal communication where I leave sentences unfinished as I consider the unspoken words as superfluous, as the audience knows what's coming so why…