Sunday, January 16, 2011

Foliage Follow-up

I took photos of some of my house plants for Pam's Foliage Follow-up.  With my outdoor foliage resting under a blanket of snow, I enjoy the different colors, shapes, and textures of indoor plants.  Pam has some awesome outdoor plants in her post.

Since we had our kitchen remodeled last March, I now have a west facing shelf I can put a few plants on.  I've had these plants for several years.  They spend the summers in the shade on our deck.  The two on the shelf above these are a bit leggy, so I didn't show them.  They probably aren't getting enough light, due to the awning that is on the window.


The herbs in the garden window are doing pretty well.  The bay tree needs to be cleaned.  The African violets are not doing so well.


Rosemary plants, with oregano in the middle pot.  There is a sprig of thyme toward the back of the pot.


This rosemary does not look as good, but it may do better once summer gets here.  I almost didn't bring it in, but figured I'd give it a try.  That's 'Naomi' next to it.  I like the shape and dark color of the foliage.
 

I've had this pothos for a few years, too.  There's one in the picture on the wall above the plant.  The books are in the picture, too.  I mirrored as much of it as I could on this sideboard.  Maybe I'll show the whole thing in a post sometime.


The next plants are in the room that used to be our computer room, and now holds our grandson's toys.  This is the fourth winter for Larry's rabbit's foot fern.  It's been in this pot the whole time, and I don't know how we'd go about transplanting it.  It sure seems happy, though!


I'm thinking this begonia is 'River Nile'.  This is its third winter.  I gets loads of small whitish blooms.


I have both green and red oxalis plants in this pot, which has survived around 4 or 5 years.  It dies back a bit if it gets drier than it likes, but when I remember to water it again, it grows new leaves.


This summer, I added some dirt to the pot of this plant I got from an estate sale about 4 years ago.  I didn't realize when I bought it, that the plants were coming out of dirt that only came up to about half of the pot.  I have to take this to the bathtub to water it, now that I don't have a hook above the sink like I used to before the remodel.  I used to just let it drip into the sink after I watered it.  Someone here identified it for me awhile back.  I'm thinking it's a relative of wandering Jew.


Can you believe that the plant with the huge light green leaf is related to the one next to it with the reddish smaller leaves?  I assume they are, anyway.  They are mother of thousands or millions.  The green one must have dropped its babies already.  Some of the other leaves have some.  I've let both plants get too crowded by not taking out the little plants they've "birthed".


I hope you had a great weekend, and balanced your time well between the things you need to do and things you want to do.  That's a challenge for me.  I have tomorrow off, and hope that's the day I make a huge, visible improvement in the room I'm moving clutter around in, trying to find spots for things, some of which really need to make an exit.

25 comments:

  1. Honestly, there is nothing like cooking with fresh herbs. They make all the difference, don't they?

    I stay away from houseplants, just lack of time and right environment.

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  2. Wow, Sue that rabbit foots fern is amazing! You have a beautiful collection to enjoy through the winter months!

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  3. You have such a great variety of indoor plants. They seem to be doing well. I love the window you have for them. Enjoy your day off.

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  4. There is always beauty in foliage... pleasing and permanent. Our red oxalis never stop flowering...

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  5. Indoor plants must be especially welcome in winter when you live in a cold climate. Your collection looks lovely.

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  6. Really like the looks of that River Nile Begonia. And that Rabbit's Foot Fern is amazing.

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  7. wow, that rabbit's foot fern is something else!

    Looks like your indoor plants have some great light!

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  8. I want to grow some herbs in my house but I'm afraid the cats would rip them to shreds.

    Love that rabbit's foot fern.

    We started some oxallis plants in a biology class when I was going to college. It was one of my mom's favorite plants until she moved in with us 10 years later and my cats destroyed it. I felt so bad.

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  9. It would be hard to transplant that fern, it is real fun.My plants are all doing well, but i wonder if it is the cold yellowing those leaves on the violet, I have the same thing going on.

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  10. That fern is real amazing, it looks real happy with what it is receiving. Maybe rosemary is not really for us, i havent seen it flower in this country, and ours look so lanky that even constant pinching doesn't make it branch profusely. I circumvent that by planting lots of stems in one pot, and they just lengthen unbranched.

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  11. I love your rabbits foot fern! You have a nice collection of house plants, far more than I do. I had a rosemary Christmas tree in my kitchen for the holidays, and its tips promptly began turning brown as soon as I set it up. It smelled wonderful, though it looked sickly upon close inspection. I set it outside the day after Christmas and it began to perk up. I finally planted it yesterday, and I think it will do well. Spring is coming soon for us, though temps will be back below freezing this weekend.

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  12. i love foiage in the house in winter. It draws me to it- is healthy and leaves me feeling this is my little amgical growing thriving world.. I force bulbs every month great fun..sandy

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  13. It looks like your indoor plants are hanging in there during these winter months. I too have some herbs growing indoors. They are getting a little leggy(trying to find light), so I trimmed them back the other day.

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  14. All this green makes me think of spring, Sue!
    By the way, forgot to add on my last comment that I didn't notice any dust at all:) This is the time of year I like to get some cleaning and organizing done, too, so I can spend all the time I want outdoors during gardening season. Amazing all the junk I manage to accumulate!

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  15. Hey, those are some nice indoor plants...your own jungle! That rabbit's foot fern is absolutely magnificent. It makes me nostalgic since I had one very much like it and lost it a number of years back. I think rolly-pollies ate it to death when I had it outdoors.
    David/ Tropical Texana

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  16. I'd never heard of rabbits foot fern. It's gorgeous!

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  17. You have some incredible houseplants. Wow! They all look happy to me. I've never seen that rabbit's foot fern. How neat!

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  18. So many great plants! hope they do well inside for the winter

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  19. Not only are you enjoying a plethera of beautiful indoor plants, but you probably have the freshest air in town! ;-) It was fun to see what you're doing over there!

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  20. Wonderful pics, Sue...you've got a little indoor garden of eden! I really love those begonia leaves...they've always been a fave of mine. My grandma had some type of rex begonia that got almost as tall as me one winter!

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  21. I had a nice visit with your indoor plants, most of them are familiar. Your new kitchen must be a pleasure in winter with all that green.

    The poll on my blog had closed just before Bloom Day and I didn't think to remove it. Did you look at it and see how many are gardening less, going to Blotanical less and blogging less?

    I think you might be still getting picks on Blotanical. There are two buttons, one at the end of the list that says "My Picks" and one on the next line on the left that says "My Picks (New)" which shows the current picks. It took me a while to figure that one out. I don't know why the 'old' picks persist after so long a time.

    I hope you'll feel more like gardening this spring. It was warm here today and I swept up pine straw and cleared some walk throughs. One large piece of ancient concrete slab that I cleared, Buffy thought needed a trenched edging, so she dug a 6" trench across the end for me while I was busy elsewhere. She's kind of scary.

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  22. Nothing better than seeing the greenery in the winter!

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  23. Green in winter is important!! I think a gardener would go made without the potted plants! I love your Christmas cactus.

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  24. The photos look very impressive. This garden is a nice player. Good things to see this. ! I like gardening and the planting of thousands of much.It is truly a wonderful breakfast goodies. It appears that you have a great natural materials around you.

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  25. Your photos are all terrific, Sue! I just love that Rabbit's Foot Fern! I wish I had more indoor plants but we've traveled so much it just didn't make sense. I think we'll stay home more from now on so I'm going to change that starting this spring.

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