Houseplants!

[oneponygirl]

Mm, mmm, oh yes, LOVE the plants! Sadly, when I married my husband he was in the Navy and the first time we got moved was from WA state to RI in January so there was no chance that my dozens of house plants would survive. I had to find good homes for all of them. A couple people were nice enough to give me some cuttings off of them when we moved back though so now I am getting my collection back up. So far I have a philodendren (one of my originals that was given back), an african violet, two Christmas cacti, an African Violet, a palm tree, a china doll, two jade-type plants that are cuttings from a plant that my mom gave my grandma when my mom was ten so they're like 40 years old sort of, and an apple tree which I have in a pot in doors until it's old enough to plant outside. I had five of them but for some reason my cats have taken a special liking to them and have killed all but this last one.

I also have containers outside with some herbs and want to get a veggie garden in. Last year I grew pumpkins. I like to grow my plants from seeds. Sort of like nurturing them from the start. We only got in this new house about a week ago so I have to see if we can afford to put in a raised bed for veggies and what I can start this late that will still have time to ripen before it gets too cold.

 

[Opcn]

Bonsai do belong outdoors, with few exceptions, Small leaved figs (ficus) fukien tea, cycad palms, Money trees, and jade plants are among the few tropical species that are used for Bonsai and can live indoors, For the Vast majority of Bonsai trees they need to be kept outdoors in free draining soil in pots and watered when the soil is dry (a cheap unlquered chopstick or long matchstick can be placed into the soil and pulled out to check soil moisture, when the probe is dry water well) Alsoo Slow release fertilizers like Osmocote are popular in
Bonsai culture.

Oh, and on topic, the only house plants I personally have are those that I started early in order to avoid frost (it snowwed lastnight here in Anchorage) but they will be ready soon to go out and I won't have any, excluding the macroalgea in my reef tank in CO.

 

[soritan]

At the moment, I have plants that can 'take it'. A single hoya, a single ZZ plant, a creeping fig (ficus pumelia), several stems of lucky bamboo (which isn't a real bamboo, it's a type of dracena), a single dwarf dendrobium orchid, a grape-leaf ivy, and one ginseng ficus.

 

[pieman]

At the moment I have adopted my brothers bean plant which is growing fast and have 12 Bonsai seeds planted, i'm just waiting for them to pop out in a couple of weeks, i'm also looking to invest in a venus fly trap, some cacti and a bit of lucky bamboo, i'll see how it goes.

 

[Opcn]

Pieman, Bonsai seed can be anything from Japanese Black pine to trident maple to Sago palm to Yukon Gold (thats right, a potato) Chances are you are growing from a kit, in which case you are headed for disapointment growing it as a house plant and disaster if it reqires a cold dormancy.

Soritan, are you sure about the name of that ficus? Ginseng is a small plant with a fleshy stem belonging to the Panax genus, And Ficus are of the genus Ficus.

 

[lisie]

The only plant I have right now in the house is a little sensitive plant. I'm not sure if they belong indoors or outdoors, or if it doesn't matter, but it's already almost tripled in size since I got it a couple weeks ago. I'm looking into getting some other actual houseplants, now that I'm living in a house that actually has heat so they won't die in the winter.

 

[Opcn]

No house is truely a houseplant, its just a plant that tolerates or thrives in the conditions indoors, sensitive plants are considered tropical and small tropical plants tend to do just fine indoors.

 

[Majjie]

Thought I would use this opportunity to show you my cactus flowering. I've had it two years and this is the first time. It was a nice surprise. Just when I was feeling peeved about uni work I turned round and looked at my little cactus People have said in the past I'm totally weird over plants but I love them and treat them like I would my fishes. Can't help being a geek. I'm afraid thats what comes with being a budding scientist
So its sprouting yellow flowers but I can't seem to find what species it is in my book:

(I know its not tradescantia )


I've only just found this forum. It's a Mamillaria - you'll probably never be able to work out the exact species if it wasn't labelled when you bought it. As an ex-scientist, I can confirm that the love of plants probably won't leave you

 

[junglejo]

My other passion besides tropical fish is houseplants. I have over 75 at the moment.

Here's a picture of my living room windowsill

 

[Lynz781]

Looks lovely! I bet it gets dead humid in there though?