Plants. Yeah!

[castalia]

Yes, I really didn't need yet another hobby, but I'm just so thrilled with having green and growing things around that I don't care. I can take a break from knitting or something (even though I have tons of socks to finish, Christmas knitting to get started on, etc...).

For my office desk, I now have a peace lily, a snake plant, an English ivy, and a red vein Fittonia as a pot group. I'm really very pleased with how it all looks together, all nice and green foliage with a splash of red in the center. I shall have to take pictures, now that I'm thinking of it.

At home I so far have in the living room: an Easter lily that's fading now (but that I can plant in mum's garden until next fall and hopefully it will come back again), another peace lily, a cutting from a Wandering Jew that I'm hoping will root nicely, and a tricolor Dracaena marginata. I've put a small zebra hawortha in the bathroom along with my orchid, but I'm planning on maybe putting together a dish garden of succulents and moving that to my "kitchen" table in the living room instead. And if the horticulture department at work still has any orchids left, I may add some more to the bathroom and do up a pebble tray there.

I'd like to have something in the bedroom, maybe another Dracaena, but we'll have to see. I don't like leaving the curtains open in there b/c it gets so much direct sun and makes the room all hot, so it'll have to be a shade loving plant or something that can be in the window itself and handle all that sun. Hrm.

Anyway, I'm getting a nice collection up and so far have only had to actually purchase about half of them from the local nurseries. For the rest, I've been lucky to get cuttings and divisions from others' plants, lots of freebies. I can see where this could easily become an expensive and time consuming hobby, so I'll have to be careful about what I get, but for now I'm quite pleased. This was just the accent my apartment needed.

Also, the House Plant Expert book I picked up at McKay's for only 75 cents is proving an invaluable resource. What a sweet find.

Comments

[keleos.livejournal.com]

The lily should transfer pretty well, I think we only ever had one that didn't bloom again in all the years my mom did it. Then again, my mother can grow jungles in the living room.

I kill spider plants.

So, y'know, take that advice with a grain of salt either way. :-D

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

Heh, only time will tell if I'm going to have an even remotely green thumb or not. But I haven't killed the orchid yet, so I'm going to count that as promising.