Houseplants at The Corner Café
A selection of the more common house plants, which I’m sure some of us have or had !!
A well known house plant, which produces lots of little spiders to pot on.
The well known cheese plant which can grow into a monster, believe me.
A Houseplant is what it says, it’s a plant that prefers being indoors to outdoors and can be found in many homes and offices for decorative purposes. They do however have psychological effects as well helping with indoor air purification.
Some species and the soil dwelling microbes reduce indoor air pollution and absorb volatile organic compounds such as benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene, which are generally poisonous to humans. These are absorbed the by the plant and the soil dwelling microbes.
There are flowering house plants and green ones, most of which are tropical or semi tropical, but whatever the choice they certainly make a home. The do however need the correct environment, right light levels, soil, temperature and humidity and proper feeding regularly and to be in the right sized pot. So many people when potting on jump to a very large pot. You should either just tidy the roots up and put fresh soil in, not forgetting food in it, as these all purpose composts only have food for about 6 weeks, and put back in same pot or just go one size bigger.
A basic rubber plant, not that easy to keep.
I think that houseplants make a room more homely and without them the whole thing seems bare. They don’t all need expert care, but most don’t thrive on neglect!!
Here are a few of what we have.
Flowering Amaryllis - this is the second lot of flowers we have had.
Orchid, which despite what people think, aren’t too difficult to get to re-flower.
Same with this rubber plant that has gone mad.
Weeping Fig and Peace Lily and more in the conservatory.
Did say they could become monsters !!! It was about 2 foot high when we bought it.
A pretty Kalanchoe, which seems happy enough on the dining room table. Quite easy to keep and I have had some for a few years now. Mothers in Laws tongue in the background.
This is a real weird one and definitely thrives on being kept very dry. It’s a Zamioculcas and has doubled in size in about a year !!
Ok, let’s have your pics and experiences of keeping house plants and what you prefer to keep. There are loads of different houseplants but I can’t cover them all, so please let have your thoughts and ideas on the subject.
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