sallyg said: I have plants in the library, my overflow plant area people are amazed at a collection of rather ordinary but fairly healthy plants. Of course, any that decline go home.

And, I bet the people who come to your library appreciate the greenery. I know I would.

Oyster plant. (T. spathacea)


Swedish ivy growing out of the drain hole of a hanging pot (Plectranthus verticillatus).


Persian shield (Strobilanthes) is doing well next to a S window.

they are looking great TIffany

Thank you very much! ; )

My variegated ficus benjamina has gotten so big from the little sprig of a plant in a 1 inch pot. There are actually 3 plants in there because I didn't bother to separate them.


So far this is a my second favorite variegated peperomia obtusifolia. The lemon lime green vareigation is my favorite.


I got this little variegated ming aralia on the same day as the ficus. It was in a 1 inch pot as well. I haven't seen as much growth in it as I did a bit of fumbling on it's care initially. I nearly killed it. As a result, I have this one and a few rooted cuttings. I didn't even have that much room for the first one.

ooh.. I love all 3 of those, hlutzow.

My Clivia is nice this year. I took it to work.

sallyg said: My Clivia is nice this year. I took it to work.

Wow! Gorgeous.

Never has one, how long do the blooms last?

thanks! Seems to me, kind of like what you expect from a lily type -- week or two? I wonder if the very dry air in the library will shorten that. I was good last summer about finally fertilizing more regularly. Then did the winter cold dry rest.
Yesterday a man admired the Tradescantia spathacea, said a couple times that he liked it, mentioned it was his birthday, so I gave him a 4 inch pot one I had sort of extra. Win win!

sallyg said: Yesterday a man admired the Tradescantia spathacea, said a couple times that he liked it, mentioned it was his birthday, so I gave him a 4 inch pot one I had sort of extra. Win win!

Wow, what a gorgeous plant! On my list. Yep.

If I lived closer I'd be there tomorrow giving you the same line.

haha
Oyster Plant (Tradescantia spathacea)
This- but mine is the plain, not the variegated. Do you ever see either for sale? Super easy to prop like other in this genus. Likes it pretty bright- can go in sun for summer here- the one at work is stretching, but at least it showed the man what his will probably look like.

sallyg said: haha
Oyster Plant (Tradescantia spathacea)
This- but mine is the plain, not the variegated. Do you ever see either for sale? Super easy to prop like other in this genus. Likes it pretty bright- can go in sun for summer here- the one at work is stretching, but at least it showed the man what his will probably look like.

That plant sells often here in Florida. We use it as a ground cover. There are two varieties of the non-variegated one, regular and dwarf. The regular plant gets tall. My neighbor has a colony that stands almost 18 inches. Most of mine are the dwarf variety, they get only about 6 inches tall. A really nice plant to grow and they propagate so easily.

I took a few plants outside yesterday but the forecast is iffy Saturday night. Might end up carrying all back in.

Dieffenbachia, Begonia


dwarf umbrella tree (Schefflera arboricola) with zigzag (Euphorbia tithymaloides)


phal orchid



a few hanging plants using an old ladder


variegated lucky bamboo, Chinese evergreen, wax Begonia


more variegated LB, Coleus, snake plant, horribly etiolated Senecio.


regular lucky bamboo & some holiday cacti


Ti plant (Cordyline fruticosa), Florida beauty (Dracaena surculosa), rubber plant that was beheaded about 7-ish months ago


Plectranthus, this is kind of an after pic. I trimmed some of the branches & stuck them back in the pot before taking the pic.

Some random pics over the weekend, Hoya.


Little air plant on Dracaena tree trunk.


Finally repotted ponytail from her former cracked hanging pot. She's tall enough now to get a non-hanging pot. With friends that I plan to snip often so they don't cover PT's sexy, curvy trunk.


It wasn't broke, but I fixed it. Oops? IDK. Little false Aralia tree was in such a tiny pot with a wick, perched on a spaghetti sauce jar of water, but I moved it to this pot. There was more roots than "dirt" in the pot, but it was staying consistently moist with the wick. Time will tell if that was wise or not. 99% depends on if I'll end up watering often enough. One thirsty day and all of the leaves will fall off, if it acts like previous specimens.


Dracaena 'Florida Beauty.' This may be the slowest-growing plant I have.


Tradescantia sillamontana cascade.


Yucca pruned in November is exploding with several new stems.

Wow.

great plants, Tiffany!
the Ponytail/Kalanchoe etc combo is especially wow

Thank you very much!

If I see a little starter ponytail aI would do a combo like that. Just wow. But my ponytail is so big it will stay on its own.

They are so slow, and I don't see them like what I bought about 9 yrs ago. There were 4 itty bitties in a pot together, trunks a little smaller than golf ball size, small pot, small price. I potted one by itself and put the other 3 in a mini garden. They didn't survive the 2nd winter out there. This pic is from 2014 of the others:


How long have you had yours? At the rate mine has grown, I will be long gone before it ever gets much height. I would definitely get more if I see more babies like the pot I started with. The slowest plants may be the least exciting, but they are also the easiest plants to keep because they hardly ever need anything besides water.

A funky little snake plant.