Houseplants galore

[feliciakw]

In condolence for my father's passing, work sent me a really big basket filled with various houseplants. Today I've been looking into the care of each of them, and looking up the ones I don't know what they are. We have gone from having nothing but a Christmas cactus and a jade plant (given to us a few years back) to having those, plus one each of the following:

Aloe vera
Peace lily
African violet (my Grandma K used to keep these. She belonged to an African violet club, even)
English ivy
Prayer plant
Arrowhead vine
Kalanchoe
A palm of some sort. The closest I could find on-line was maybe a parlor palm. It's very cute.

Plus the mixed planter that has all the plants in the same pot. I haven't started looking those up yet.

It's been very interesting reading about some of these plants. The peace lily is very cool in that it's recognized by NASA as one of the top ten air cleaning plants. And it is resilient. I thought I killed it the other day, but it turns out it just needed watering. The prayer plant is called such because at night it curls together as if it's praying. (I need to check that out tonight.) I'm wondering if the English ivy can be put outside to grow around our newly repaired Narnia lamp (on which Geo is going to put a commemorative plate to Daddy). I think I want honeysuckle on that again, though. (Need to look up when is good to buy and plant honeysuckle.)

I'm hoping the African violet blooms well. The leaves seem to be doing well; I'm wondering when I can expect more blossoms.

I also wish I could show all of these to Daddy.

I'm also trying to get back to my exercise schedule, now that we have a blu ray player in the basement, and my S7 DVDs came. While I liked S7 okay, it's not something that needs my absolute and undivided attention, and it seems I have a real problem motivating myself to walk on the treadmill unless I'm watching something with Jensen in it. *shrug* I guess I'm a creature of habit.

Comments

[yasminke.livejournal.com]

I have a prayer plant and it does indeed curl up.

The peace lily is very hard to kill, but you can do so by overwatering (put it in a partly sunny place).

English Ivy grows anywhere, but give it a trellis/pole or it'll take over everything.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

I repotted a few things yesterday--the peace lily, which seems to be doing well; the prayer plant, which seems to have grown now that it has room; our Christmas cactus, which I'm going to have to make trimmings of, or it's going to get out of control, and the jade plant, which seems to be happier now that it has more room.