I like lists!

I love to make lists. And countdowns. I will list or count down to almost anything, I even have a countdown app on my phone. Now, I have recently come to the realisation that I am probably a bit of a houseplant hoarder and definitely an avid collector. If I am at the store and I see a plant I do not have yet, guaranteed it will be coming home! With a few exceptions I don't have very many duplicates of the same type of plant, the main defactor to this is Schefflera. In the past I wasn't a Schefflera fan, no real reason, they just didn't do much for me. I bought a small one to add to the collection and that was it. Then I bought a lot of plants from Kijiji for $10 that included a fairly large Schefflera specimen, and into the window it went. THEN I found another, again on Kijiji (yay!) for $10 that was HUGE, so I got that one too. AND THEN Craig brought me home a Schefflera he rescued from being tossed out at work and HOLY CRAP it is about 6 feet tall and literally a tree! So now I have four of the very plant I used to somewhat dislike. Anyways, I decided to walk around my house and make a list (LISTS!<3) of all the plants I have, just to really get an idea of what my collection is like. Here's my list:

-lithops
-pink calla lily
-phalaenopsis orchid
-polka dot plant
-small green/yellow palm (unsure what kind)
-variegated pothos
-pink geranium
-sago palm
-christmas cactus
-shamrock
-variegated english ivy
-green english ivy
-small african violet
-hen and chicks
-2 baby spider plants
-tiny baby hen and chick
-baby deiffenbachia
-purple velvet plant
-small jade plant
-silver nerve plant
-peperomia
-earth star bromeliad
-strange Ikea succulent
-crown of thorns
-kalanchoe w/purple flowers
-small succulent garden (3 different)
-lucky bean
-medium deiffenbachia
-medium african violet
-peace lily
-china doll
-large jade plant
-small schefflera
-black calla lily
-snake plant
-red dracaena
-small agave
-large deiffenbachia and spider plant (same pot)
-lime green pothos
-spider plant in hanging pot
-lipstick plant
-2 round cactus (same pot)
-money tree
-small cactus garden (3 different)
-ponytail palm
-small lucky bamboo
-aloe vera
-syngonium
-marimo (lives in the aquarium)
-spiral lucky bamboo
-calathea
-ardisia (still alive after Christmas!)
-tall dracaena
-large succulent type vine (unsure what it actually is)
-corn plant
-medium schefflera
-two large spider plants
-large schefflera
-huge schefflera tree
-ficus benjamina
-big twisty dracaena (friends with huge schefflera)
-sad ugly rehab pothos (trying to revive from an office building)

That's all of them! 62 list entries... holy crap, I have quite a collection! Well that's all for now, pictures are of the two biggest schefflera. Hope you liked my list!

More plant pictures!

Just a few today, I bought a couple more plants while at Walmart yesterday (I CAN'T SAY NO), here they are!


A pretty money tree, and only $2! How could I say no? (Answer: I can't.) I'm really on this natural colour pot with colourful saucer thing right now. I will have to go to the discount store a THIRD time to pick up even more of these! I have used up all that I've bought on my last two trips.


Not a new plant, but I just noticed today that my shamrock plant has a little flower!


I had to trim some dying stuff off the poor schefflera and then re-stake it to hold up the rest, I'm hoping this one will come back! Beside it is the new arrowhead plant I got along with the others yesterday.


Another not-new plant, but doesn't the christmas cactus look cute in it's new green pot and blue saucer? There used to be three stems, one died and I'm still not sure why, but the other two are doing great!

Well that's all for now, stay tuned for more fun, including moving all of these plants to a new house!

Last one for today!

I think I will call it a day, this will be the 11th post in the Snowy St. Patty's Day Post Extravaganza(tm)!, and I think I'm all posted out for today. To finish off here are the newest houseplants to the family, a peperomia and a very sickly schefflera that I couldn't help but rescue from Walmart. Aren't they cute in their matching biopots and colourful saucers? I think I have a houseplant problem!

Deiffenbachia is still growing!

Remember the post from earlier showing how much my deiffenbachia had grown? Well here are a couple of pictures of it today! Look at it go!

BUTT PLANTS!

For the next installment in the Snowy St. Patty's Day Post Extravaganza(tm)!, here's a few pictures of the fabled butt plants! Aren't they wierd? They are so wierd! I guess how they work is each year a single new pair of leaves (the butt) emerges from between the old pair and the old pair slowly shrivel up and die and then the cycle goes on. Hmm!

The Amazing $5 Corn Plant!

Continuing with the Snowy St. Patty's Day Post Extravaganza(tm)!, and the emerging theme of Pictures Of My Houseplants, here is a little picture and story of the $5 corn plant, because I can't leave a plant behind! We were at Home Depot the other day as we do sometimes, and they had a sale of large houseplants for $10. Lots of dracaena, which we already have quite a few of, and a few dieffenbachia which we also have a couple of already. There was also this corn plant, which was looking very scraggly and brown and sad. When we asked the lady if it was $10 as well, she answered that she would give it to us for $5 because no one wanted it and it was pretty sad looking. Sold! I took it home, cut off all the brown stuff, cleaned it up and put it in it's temporary home in an old dutch oven (temporary because we are moving soon so I will repot it at the new house, and I want to give it some time to recover before replanting it), sat it on a box in front of the window to get some light and look at how nice it looks! I forgot to take a "before" picture but I think it's looking pretty good!

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Here are some shamrocks for you!

Wee succulents!

Aren't these wee succulents adorable? I got them at the grocery store as well in a multipack that included... butt plants! In case you were wondering the ones I started from seed a while ago didn't work because I kinda forgot about them and they dried up. But I got a couple of fully grown ones that I will post later on today as part of the Snowy St. Patty's Day Post Extravaganza(tm)!

Pothos

Isn't this lime green Pothos pretty? We bought it at the grocery store (instead of groceries...) and it's Craig's favourite houseplant!

Finally my deiffenbachia is growing!

Soooo remember a long time ago in November I posted how I had a deiffenbachia leaf cutting I was determined to root, and it was supposed to take forever this way but I was being patient because the leaf looked healthy, and it had already been two months with nothing happening? Well...



Finally after *7 MONTHS* some action is happening! The tip of that leaf that is emerging used to be level with the small open leaf! The white ring near the tip of the opening leaf was at the base of the small leaf FOREVER and I thought nothing would ever happen and it is finally showing some signs of life! It has actually opened a lot more since this picture was taken but I need to go take a more recent picture to show. It must've been saving up energy forever to get that leaf growing. Neat!

Butt Plants!

This is my first attempt at cultivating butt plants, aka "Lithops". Google it and you'll see why I call them butt plants. See the tiny green dots in the picture? Success!

Latest Plant Update!

Remember the pictures a while back of the little bulges on my dracaena? Look how big they are now!:


That plant is getting new growth all over the place!:




I've also rearranged a lot because I've gotten quite a few new plants lately, as well as gotten rid of a few that weren't doing well. Here's the current plant table by the fish tank. My christmas poinsettia is still alive!


I had to cut down a big piece of my palm tree, it suddenly got all dry and died off. Hm...


A polka dot plant, the tiniest agave ever, a sweet smelling hyacinth and some butt plant seedlings! More on those later...




That's all for now on the plant front!

Random Plant Thing

Remeber the dracaena I chopped down because it got cold damaged? There's signs of life!


I was doing the daily misting and noticed these two new sprouts on the end of one of the stalks! Also...


Not the best picture, but you can tell that there is somethin' brewin' under that bark! I think we are due for another sprout! There's also this...


There was a small closed spike of leaves that survived the big chop because it was only partially damaged and I wanted to see if it would open up. Well all of a sudden one morning it looks like it exploded! I'm really happy one original leaf cluster survived!

That's all for now, I will be doing a big update soon because tonight I repotted and re-arranged some of the plants and the plant area is looking really snazzy!

Sick day.

I finally have a reader (hi Mom!)! Today's post isn't much, I didn't go in to work today because I woke up scratchy throated, blocked up, headachey and nauseated. After getting up and having a bit of breakfast I felt a bit better, I took Craig to do a few things and then to work, came home and slept for about 4 hours. I got up and felt a bit better but was fairly bored so I decided to do some gardeny stuff.


I re-arranged the corner by the table, one chair has been temporarily employed as a plant stand because the spider plant wasn't getting enough light where it was. These pictures were at the end of the day so he looks considerably more perky than this morning. We've also gotten the annual Christmas poinsettia, and someone looks a little different than last time. Which leads me to...


Dracaena has been beheaded! Unbeknownst to me the plant had gotten frozen on the truck on the way home and I was left to scratch my head as a normal looking plant suddenly got very dark and dropped all of it's leaves. After I discovered this I decided it was better off for me to chop off all the misshapen trunks and hope for new branches. I left one top on because this one has fresh new green growth coming out. We will see what happens here!


We also bought this "Frosty Fern", I know it's tacky but I love grocery store holiday plants with the garish foil and silly ornaments. This will be repotted in a normal pot after Christmas. There were also live Holly plants at the one Safeway we went to last grocery day, we ended up having to go to a different Safeway for what we needed so I left without buying it, thinking they would all have them. Nope! Hopefully the one we usually go to gets them in soon!


Everyone is looking nice and lush today!


My Pothos rehabilitation project is coming along nicely I think.


This dracaena also got one of it's ends chopped off. I'm not sure what happened to it but it got dark and soft so I just cut it off. Hopefully it branches!


And I will finish off with a picture of my favourite plant, china doll. It's gotten so big and pretty and I love it!

Well that's all for today, I'm off to make some Campbell's chicken noodle and cocoon myself on the couch.