I don't have much of an outdoor green thumb, but I suppose I make up for it with all of my indoor plants! Today I was kinda bored, so I decided to take a photo log of all of my plants. Enjoy!
This is a couple of lucky bamboo that are in a jar of marbles and water on my dinner table. The plaque was a gift from my aunt.
Here is a very large dracaena and a cat palm that were saved from being thrown out at various office buildings.
This is another office rescue, a deiffenbacchia that has grown immensely since Craig brought it home. It also has a couple of spider friends to share his pot!
A cute little jade plant in a macrame plant hanger.
I have had these cacti for years and just recently moved them from a small plastic pot that sat in this planter, to the actual planter itself, and I'm not sure but I think they might be getting bigger!
Yet another office rescue, this dracaena was sad and droopy in a tiny Christmas pot. After repotting into a large container it has taken off. Also his little friend phalaenopsis orchid sitting in the container too.
A picture of a group of plants that sit on the hutch by the window.
A small yellow palm I got at Walmart. I saw these but much larger while we were in Mexico, but the leaves were twisty looking. This one has started to do the same thing now that it's getting bigger.
This strange looking plant was brought to me from an office building where it was sitting in a pot more than a foot across, dry as a bone and wilted from getting too cold. I cut off all the dead stuff (amazingly one leaf survived completely unharmed), repotted in a smallish container and am now waiting to see what happens.
A bromeliad whose large flower plume unfortunately dried out and broke off before it bloomed, while I was on holiday. I trimmed it off and don't know if a new one will ever appear. The foliage is still pretty though.
This is a small pot with a mix of rooted spider and pothos cuttings. I have a few more of each still rooting and the plan is to add a few more spiders along the outside and a couple more pothos to the middle to make a neat looking mix once the plants grow a bit.
I have no idea what this one is, I bought it for $3 at Walmart and it's delightfully sharp along the edges, the leaves feel like hacksaw blades! It looks beautiful in the orange pot that I happily managed to save after repotting a giant spider plant. It took about half an hour of careful digging and wiggling to get the spider out without breaking the pot!
A wee family of various little cacti.
A bunch of pothos rooting in water and a small pot of jade plant leaves rooting in vermiculite.
Most of my christmas cactus' buds fell off this year without blooming, but it has grown a lot and the foliage is still pretty. Beside it (the only thing I didn't get a picture of) is a deiffenbacchia cutting I have been trying to root, it has been planted for about 2 months with no sign of new growth BUT the stalk and leaf are still healthy so I'm hoping something is happening! I have read that to propagate this way takes FOREVER so hopefully something happens eventually!
The aforementioned giant spider plant, can you believe this honker was all fit into that little orange pot? This is the pot that tiny spiky cold damaged plant was in when it was brought to me.
A pothos I've had for quite a while, that got a little bit damaged while I was away on holiday. It has required a fair amount of cutting, re-rooting and repotting of vines, but has started to fill out nicely. I will probably add a few more rooted cuttings to the pot yet.
In our bedroom by the chair we have another tall dracaena and a plant hanger with a china doll and an aloe vera plant. Both plants in the hanger have gotten HUGE since I bought them a few months ago.
A close up of the china doll, this is one of my favourites of all my plants and it just keeps growing and growing.
The aloe plant at the top of the hanger, this is another of my favourites and though it is a slow grower and I had a bit of a battle with rot early on, it has managed to grow big and tall!
This venus flytrap sits on the back of my toilet, it is in the bathroom because I thought it needed more warmth and humidity, but at the sacrifice of a lot of sunlight I'm not sure it's doing so well. It's looking better than it did but I suppose only time will tell.
And finally a picture of the little bamboo stalk that also lives on the back of the toilet. Unlike his friend the venus flytrap he seems to love it in the dark warm bathroom and so he sits in his little jar of marbles and watches us poop.
That concludes my photo roundup of all the houseplants, hope you enjoyed them and it wasn't too long! I will now leave you with a picture of Franklin, because he is cute sometimes.
