Here are the rest of my houseplants. I know I said I'd share these yesterday, but it got really hairy and I didn't get to it. This first plant is another Impatien:
This is a Finger Jade:
This belongs to a co-worker. It's a Bougainvillea. It's supposed to grow red bracts, but it hasn't yet. Where it was before, I think it wasn't getting enough sun, so we moved it here:
This is an arrangement I got just the other day. It's got an Umbrella Plant and an Arrowhead Plant in it:
This is an African Violet which I also got just the other day. I've seen, bought, and grown much better specimens than this before, but this was the last one they had so I took it:
This is a Hummingbird Vine which I started from seed about this time last year. It grows very very slowly. There were 4 plants in there, but one of them died:
This is an Ornamental Pepper Plant. You can see that it has red fruit on it. That's from last year. I let them dry and remain as decorations on the plant. It's also growing some more:
This is a Spring Cactus. If it were to flower again I'd be very glad. It grows very pretty flowers, but it's hard to get it to flower and I haven't felt like it would be worth the effort yet. You have to keep it at a certain temperature for so long, then a different temperature for so long, then in darkness for so long...anyway, I'm not that ambitious quite yet. It makes a lovely green plant in the meantime:
This is a Swedish Ivy:
This is a Cyclamen. I've really enjoyed this plant. It grows beautiful pink flowers in cooler weather. You can see that there are a few on it right now, but in the cooler weather it grows scads of them:
This is where all those hanging baskets are hanging. Isn't this lovely? I really like hanging baskets:
This plant I also got just the other day. It's a Corn Plant with Pathos vine growing around it. I've never spent as much on a plant as I did on this one, but it was truly love at first sight when I saw it:
Last, but not least, this is a Mother-in-Law's Tongue. It's a great plant because it almost never needs watered and doesn't really care if it get any direct sunlight. It does just fine with fluorescent lighting:
Well, I hope you all enjoyed my house plant collection. These are all the ones I have at my office. There are some more at home, but that will have to be for a later article. ;) For those who wonder, that's 35 pots of plants. :O We better have lots of oxygen in this office!
Again, here are more house plants. This first one is an Aloe Vera Plant which I got on a clearance table for $0.99. As you can see, it's not doing very well. I watered it too much at first. It's just starting to turn back green from that! The problem is, I love my house plants...too much for this type. They thrive on neglect rather than care, so all my efforts of rescue just make them worse. One day I'll figure the silly things out. In the mean time, this is what it looks like:
This is another Dragon's Blood or "Hairy Tree" as I like to call them. This belongs to a co worker. Dragon's Blood trees are amazing plants. They seem to grow just as large as you allow them to. If they're in a small pot, they stay small. You can move them to a large pot and they'll grow larger until they fill the pot. I saw one that was huge; I mean HUGE in a hospital. It was as tall as a 1 story building without any exaggeration and the pot was massive. This one will probably get a little larger in this pot before it evens off:
This is a banana tree. It was much larger, but something happened to it and it clear died off. This one came up from the roots and is just starting to get big for us:
This next plant is a China Doll plant. It was once much bigger too, but we re-potted it and took most of the starts out. It started out as this cute little innocent looking plant in a basket arrangement that also contained the Peace Lily I mentioned in my last article. When we re-potted it, all the starts we took out died. This one had 2 starts that struggled for a long time before one finally got over it and the other one died clear back. We thought it was gone, but you can see in this picture that it's tiny in the bottom and coming back healthy as ever:
I love these plants. This actually belongs to a co-worker, but I sure like it a lot. It doesn't need any direct sunlight and just likes to be watered about every other week:
This is a little shoot I took off a Kalanchoe. It's growing next to a Money Tree:
This is another arrangement that was given to my co-worker. It has a Dragon's Blood or "Hairy Tree", a Crouton, as well as a Pathos. This is about how big the other arrangement was when she first got it:
This next plant is a Spider Plant. It also came is the same arrangement that the China Doll and Peace Lily were in:
This is an Ivy and, well, it's not doing so good. It looks fine here:
...but take a closer look:
It's my fault. I forgot to water it for 2 weeks and now I just hope it's going to pull out of it. It looks so lovely here:
While you'd think I'd be content with that many plants, I do actually have a few more to share with you tomorrow, so check back for even more beautiful, lovely houseplants that keep our office cheery. :)
