Plant love - pictures

[senusenu]

I love plants, though I'm not that great at keeping them. So I look for pretty, easy to take care of stuff. Woo.



I was messing with the macro shot. I need to change settings somewhere so it comes out sharper.


These are my four cactus plants. I pretty much got them free :p Work discount and coupons.


Got this one, and the next one, at 70% off at a local small plant nursery. I'm hoping I can nurse it back to full health and get rid of those bad patches.


My other discounted plant. So pretty. I love the bright vibrant orange and the dark green foliage.

Comments

[silkensteel.livejournal.com]

That tall skinny not-a-cactus? Snake plant. Those are damned near indestructable. Just repot it in a year or five so it doesn't get rootbound. Check the drainholes for roots poking out the bottom.

Don't be afraid to prune those two or three ugly bits. If they're diseased, they're better off being gone. If they're just scarred, no harm done removing them.

The bottom one is in the Dieffenbachia family, if I remember right. Don't let the cats chew on either of those, they carry (if I remember right) enough oxalic acid crystals to cause nasty oral and throat irritation. Odds are they won't want to, but still, just be aware.

On the whole, really nice plants for a low-medium light indoor environment. If the leaf tips start looking dried out or burned, it's either because they need to be rerooted or they need a bit of regular misting.

Pretty sure I got all that right. Used to be a Master Gardener for the MontCo (PA) Cooperative Extension, and I got TONS of questions on indoor plants.

If your place's bathroom has a window with a plant-worthy ledge, see about getting yourself a Coffea Arabica (yes, a coffee plant.) They like the filtered window light and the humidity. A lot. A WHOLE lot. Had one near my kitchen, by the "never any direct sunlight dammit" window - and 10 years later when we moved, I left it with a friend because it had hit 4 feet and started to bloom with REAL coffee beans! She still has it (near 15 years now) and it's around 5 or 6 feet. Too big to move to California, sadly, but it's still happy where it is.

[ryvaendell.livejournal.com]

I love succulents. Not so much with the prickly kind (Mom had SO many cacti when I was little) but I love the first one and the one in the back of the group of four... with the chubby leaves. So cute. :)