Are you a houseplant home, and if so, how many and what’s your favorite?
All told we probably have 20-30. Favorite is this guy, garden variety Jade, maybe 10 years old. I’m itching for a Bonsai.
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I have about 300 at the moment. Fell down the rabbit hole during COVID and we moved to a new place with great natural lighting.
I’m a big philodendron phanatic, so I have lots, I love all the different leaf shapes and how big they can get. I also have carnivorous plants, including a small container bog on the back porch.
This is my home office, I have plant cabinets with grow lights as well as window light here.
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Walking through the house just now, I counted at least 50. Obviously I’m not the caretaker.
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Sort of, mostly due to mrs wimsey’s influence.
(Before I got married I had a great hanging philodendron that I called Alice - she was bombproof and lived through two cross country moves and a ton of neglect, but eventually she gave up the ghost.)
We’ve got 10 or 12 right now. Mostly they frustrate me.
I am baffled as to why we have several cacti next to the kitchen sink - the last place I want pokey plants is right next to where I often have wet, raw hands fluttering around doing chores.
I also don’t understand why we have plants on top of the toilet tanks. I manage to knock over an aloe (I think?) plant at least once a week while I’m dropping a deuce.
These fall into the ‘domestic fights not worth picking’ bucket for me, but they are irritating.
I believe this is a blushing philodendron but not entirely sure. My next favorite plant, moved to the cat tower when it outgrew the window stand.
Yes! Looks like a Dark Lord or Pink Princess. Give it a pole/plank to climb on and it’ll get huge!
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Houseplants tend to have a short life in my home, so we are not a houseplant home. Complete opposite of my home growing up. My mom loved houseplants and even had a christmas cactus she had for over 50 years. After her death 4 years ago that went to my sister and is still going strong.
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My mother has zero houseplants but keeps an herb garden outside. Can’t quite wrap my head around that.
We’ve laid claim to the MIL’s older plants. I’d live in a greenhouse given the opportunity.
My wife’s office is in our sunroom because she loves lots of natural light. She’s got quite a few houseplants, but probably not as many as you and LNAnne.
My mother loved houseplants and even opened a small plant business for a few years when I was a teenager.
I’ve gotten to the point that I don’t want to maintain any plant or tree that doesn’t grow food that I can eat.
We have about 50 fruit trees either planted or in containers. A late freeze got a lot of peaches on one tree. Only 8 or so survived it. We ate four and they were delicious. We went out the other day and discovered that the freaking tree rats had gotten the others even though they were in protective bags.
I’ve got another peach tree that bloomed later and it has 50-60 peaches on it. I’ve got it wrapped, but am going to have to do more to protect them when they get closer to ripening. I think that it is time to declare war on the little furry bastards.
I got my wife one of those signs for her birthday! I know,…very romantic of me.
We have 3 cats and many house plants. Two of the three cats have no interest at all. One gets after a spider plant infrequently, but nowhere near often enough to make it an issue.
Ha, my husband also got me a few of these. Unfortunately one of our cats can’t resist plants, so anytime he sneaks out he’s sure to be puking soon after.