HousePlants

This plant wasn’t originally mine, but has been married into my collection.    I usually let my Husband deal with his plants but I just couldn’t stand it any more. The poor plant had it’s roots streaming out of the bottom of the pot.  I think it has been in the same pot for about 3 years.   It looked healthy but never got bigger. I say it t because it had no room to grow.

I don’t know the name os the plant but it is the same and the climbing plant I wrote about a few posts back (there is a picture in that post), just much smaller.  I hope now it will get a little bigger!

I had planned on putting when I watered in the calender in the sidebar but it don’t seem to allow notes on the days.   So there goes that idea, at least until I figure it out (or someone tells me how) lol.

I have added a calendar to my sidebar, I am going to put on there when I water, transplant, etc…  I have tried a few different things to keep track of when I transplant but never watering. However, I have been watering my plants like they should be watered. I think the only thing that has saved them is that it is winter; so they don’t need as much water as they would in spring/summer.    So, I need to get it together before spring; For the sake of my plants.

It is kind of sad that I didn’t realize my Rubber Plants had died. After I wrote about moving them I went to do some pruning and kept thinking my “jungle” looked smaller.  It is not like they are small plants, maybe I should go to an eye doctor, lol.

I tried to save anything that was savable, it hopes of starting a new plant, but it was to far gone.  I guess I will have to swipe a cutting from my mother-in-law here in a few months. Her’s are not doing very well so I should get it sooner rather then later. I could always break down and buy one but that isn’t any fun.

I can’t remember if I have complained about this before but after my most recent trip to Wal-Mart it came back to mind. I know it is winter but they always have the same types of plants.  Maybe I am thinking there is more “house” plants then there really is. It has inspired me to find other places to buy plants!

I had already moved my plants from the breeze-way however the place I moved them too got colder then I thought. It only took a few days for my plants to show me they did not like their new area. They started wilting and changing colors. I didn’t really like where they were, I had to remember to water them since they were out of sight (out of mind). Why have plants if you can’t see them, lol. I moved them in time, so no lost plants.
The Jade plant still hasn’t gone back to it’s normal color. This plant has me baffled, I am not sure if it is going to live. It seems to always be on the verge of death. I would like to hear from someone that has had one indoors for “years”.

Lowe’s Website has a nice list of houseplants that are good for beginners (or those between a green and a brown thumb.

Lowe’s  

To bad not all of the plants listed at Lowe’s.com have pictures.

I have three out of the four plants pictured in the “Dracaena” section. The one I don’t have is at the bottom left of the picture.

I want one of these plants, “Schefflera”. My mother-in-law has one but I haven’t been able to sneak a cutting of it ( I have to sneak since she don’t like cutting her plants).

I wonder if Lowe’s ships plants? If so, I may have to order some. Where I live most of the stores have taken out their plant sections. The only place to get plants anymore is Walmart or Kmart (aside from swiping cuttings).

Soon I will be posting a list of places to buy houseplants online. I have to ‘research’ it for myself so I might as well share, lol.

P.S.  I could not find any plants to buy at Lowe’s.com, I guess I will have to go to a Lowe’s store.

 I have mixed feelings about putting different plants in the same pot. When it is done right it looks good (and hopefully the plants grow well together).   However, if you are not a good mixer you may end up with one or two dead plants.

I, myself, am not good at mixing plants.   I still try, but usually end up having to separate the plants. Example, a few post’s back I posted a picture of one of my attempts to mix and it isn’t going well.

During the last re-potting I mixed a mother-in-laws tongue and cutting of the plant pictured in the last post. So far, so good. The M.I.L.T. is not growing as fast as the other plant in the pot. I think I will have to separate them before to long.  The M.I.L.T. will end up lost in the other plant.   I was hoping to use the M.I.L.T as the holder for the other plant.  “In my head”, the climbing plant wrapped around the M.I.L.T. looked really cool but this attempt may not end the way I wanted it too.

I may try it with a older climbing plant.

I will get pictures of this up ASAP.

While surfing ( I was told people don’t use that word anymore, lol) I found this site. It is A university’s site so I trust the information more then I would one that wasn’t, lol

It has Pictures which I love and basic info about care of the plants.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/interiorscape/gallery/index.html (<–Copy and Paste)

Here is the plant that was pictured in the last post. “Pothos Ivy”

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/interiorscape/Epipremnum_aureum.html

I am not really sure what this plant is but that don’t really matter for this post. It is about the way it grows, many plant grow wildly without any way to hold it’s self up. If left unattended it will it dangle and grow on to anything it can reach.

Before I moved I had this plant growing on a Tomato Trellis. I kind of liked it because it made it more like a tree. I used it to block sunlight that would blind anyone sitting on my couch.   But with that trellis is was hard to move and I had to put it in a bigger pot then it needed with rocks in the bottom just to keep it from tipping over.
I put it in a smaller pot but didn’t really know what I was going to do with all the “vines”.  I had a bunch of metal hangers that I was throwing out, it came to me. I straighten two and put the criss-cross in the pot. sorry about the horrible drawing but it is just to give you any idea since you cannot really see it in the picture.  Just toss the “vines” over the hangers and just keep doing it until is doesn’t fall.

I did this to a few on my mother-in-laws plants that she was just letting hang. They all seem to like it.  I like that it makes them look full/bushy.  However I am going to have to find something to do with it soon because it is growing fast.   I do not really want to go back to the trellis, I would like to get some longer pieces of metal to do the same thing but bigger.