Houseplant jungle
In the early days of the pandemic , when booster were experimenting with sourdough starters or taking up crocheting , I began collecting houseplants . I ’ve always had a handful spread out around , but thanks to all the free clock time , I noticed just how much space I had to fill with newfangled plants .
It start when a friend invest me with 10 cactus and succulent fledgeling and a crash course of instruction on how to care for them . Of naturally , I panicked , overwatered , and almost killed them before I finally learned to just leave them alone to do their arid thing . I still worry I ’m dehydrating them , overwater , and they get all unearthly , but I ’m getting better . My hedgehog cactus ( Echinocereus rigidissimus ) has produced three picayune cactus baby of its own under my care , so I must be doing a decorous caper .
In the last few years , I ’ve sum up dozens more , including a golden pothos ( Epipremnum aureum ) cutting I just happened to find on the floor at an Airbnb . It ’s become a fun game to see how long it takes my husband to notice a fresh plant in the house .
And can we talk about distribute for a hour ? How wonderful is it that with a slip , some water or soil , and a bit of patience , you’re able to develop as many new flora as you’re able to fit in your sun parlor ? And living room . I ’ve bunk out of surface , and the many wall hanging potsthroughout the houseare throw off a real jungle vibe .
Houseplant tips & ideas
In true In the Weeds fashion , here are some houseplant tips and ideas from me , your average houseplant enthusiast :
1 . Get creative where you put your plants . My shaver ’ bathroom has great illumination for plants , PLUS they all take 45 - minute steam shower ( to my husband ’s horror ) which creates a consummate level of humidity . I embraced it , paint the bathroom a gorgeous Olea europaea greens , filled it with hanging plants , and now we basically have a nursery .
2 . Plants are fabulously resilient . If you think you ’ve kill it off , just give it a min . My cat knock over my favored kalanchoe and broke its pot . Over the path of a month , all its leaves turned brown and fall off . I was devastated and thought it was a goner . But that piddling dish convalesce from her trauma and come back fuller than before after spending the summer alfresco .
3 . Plants love vacations!Do your plant a whole and let them live their good aliveness byspending the summertime outsideon the patio or porch . They seem to apprise the impertinent air .
4 . Have a flora trading party!If you have too many plants or you want something fresh , get your plant - loving friends together , bring a few plant you ’ve been propagating at family , and swop for what you do n’t already have .
Happy houseplanting , friends !
Jamie assign at least 75 % of her sexual love of flowers , houseplants , and all thing gardening to the storyFrog and Toad : The Garden by Arnold Lobel , which her mother read to her no less than one million times : “ Now ejaculate , start growing ! ”
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