It's a Jungle in Here! 0_o

[Shelli]

This weekend, I added three snake plants to my jungle which prompted a bunch of pics of my plants, most of which are in my living room, which is starting to resemble a jungle, especially if you include the dogs and my husband. :cheeseforest:


I started out by buying two of the small species of snake plants Friday night, along with a wall hanging basket to put them in. Then, my husband gave me an idea of where I could put the BIG snake plant that I've wanted for awhile, so I bought that Saturday. They've since been repotted and are sittin'/hangin' pretty. :gardening:


There's also a semi-new waffle plant hanging in the same corner of the room :cheerful:

Pics! :biggrin:

[Shelli]

More pics to follow and please post yours! :shakegreen:

[Shelli]

K, here's more greenery, on the other side of the living room. :=D

From left to right: The biggie is an umbrella plant/tree. Above that is a dumbcane. Next is a philodendron; then a ?? (I can't remember what it's called :chin:); and lastly, a closer shot of the dumbcane. :shakegreen:

[Shelli]

Upstairs, I'm a lot more limited as to where I can put plants because of the felines. :shakecat:

From left to right: A maidenhair fern taken from a funeral arrangement for my mother-in-law last year; a kalancho grown from a cutting of my mother-in-law's plant; and a philodendron.. all in my bedroom hanging so that the cats can't get to them. :catwave:

[Shelli]

In my backyard, the mums are still hanging in there despite the cool temps, and the rest of pics are of my forest of a backyard. I likey. :flower:

[Shelli]

I also have 4 plants at work but no pics... yet. :cheesywink:

[mulebear]

Ah... Yes. Sansevieria. Also known as Mother-in-law's Tongue and Devil's Tongue.

I used to have some rare ones. Unfortunately they weren't as hardy as the more common varieties.

We pulled in all four containers of various pepper plants and placed them in the dining area. Along with all of Sonoma Bear's collection of pachypodiums and various Madagascar plants... And our joint collection of various amorphaphallus...

Well... We have a forest/jungle in the house.

Did I mention the marantas, hoyas, and dracaenas?

How about the aspidistra?

Bowiea volubilis?

Spathiphyllum?




Too many goddamn plants.

[mulebear]

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6987&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1287515924

WANT!

[Shelli]

:thankee:


That arrangement is actually two separate plants that I repotted into two separate containers, then placed the pots into the basket partially filled with packing popcorn, then placed more popcorns around them and then topped it all off with that moss stuff.

This way, I can take them out to water them, letting the water drain out properly so that they don't end up with root rot and also, I can turn & rotate the plants for sunlight. Not to mention that the basket is a lot less heavy hanging on the wall than it would be if it were full of dirt.

[Gonzo]

That's cool, Shelli.

Snake plant? Is that the same as a spider plant or different? We used to breed beta fighting fish in a bunch of different glass bowls to cover one of the kitchen counters and would grow spider plants out the top so that they could eat the roots in addition to their normal food. It looked stellar.

[Shelli]

Sounds cool looking. And no, snake plants and spider plants are entirely different animals. For one, snake plants are succulents whereas spider plants love moisture. They also look a lot different. I had a spider plant. I don't think it appreciated the air conditioner it was near though. :grave:

[curses]

Hmm, the cats ate my spider plant. I have mostly succulents now.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7009&stc=1&d=1287536591

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7010&stc=1&d=1287536598

[mulebear]

This is our Amorphophallus Konjac that, for some strange reason, likes to bloom in winter.

Winter... When it's cold outside and you have to bring your plants in.

Plants that, when blooming, have giant flowers that smell like rotting flesh.

Oh nooooo... It can't bloom during the spring or summer when it can be outside. It has to bloom during the winter.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h95/mulebear/Konjac02.jpg

Beautiful, but stinky.

[Shelli]

This is our Amorphophallus Konjac ...

Beautiful, but stinky.

Fitting then, because the center thingy reminds me of something from Resident Evil. :doggytremble:

Very cool looking. :coolness:

[mulebear]

By the way, that center thingy (spadix) is about a foot and a half tall.

We also have an Amorphophallu Titanium, but it is way too young to flower. Though I would love to see it flower, I have no desire to have a 6 foot tall flower that smells like roadkill in my house.

[Shelli]

eww? Too bad you can't destink it like you can a skunk, per instance. :shakeskunk:

[Chris Porter]

That's cool, Shelli.

Snake plant? Is that the same as a spider plant or different? We used to breed beta fighting fish in a bunch of different glass bowls to cover one of the kitchen counters and would grow spider plants out the top so that they could eat the roots in addition to their normal food. It looked stellar.

Bettas (Betta splendens) don't eat roots. They're carnivores. Whatever plant material they eat is inside their prey, or accidental. Or an act of desperation from starvation. Or boredom. I've seen them mouth a lot of things just from curiosity. I've raised hundreds of bettas from fry to adulthood.

P.S. I'm about as expert as one can get about bettas. Ask me anything. Their nutrition, breeding, genetics, sister species, longevity, incept dates, science studies on them, I've got the data.

P.P.S. I kill most plants. I'm thinking of getting a potted lemon tree for the upstairs hallway, which has a southern window. Don't know how that will work out, though.

[Doctor X]

Whereas my home is over-run by:

http://www.gradinamea.ro/_files/Image/articole/original/Drosera_capensis_wide_leaf_form.jpg

Someone tell Cynical-Chick a spidey tried to spin a web on one . . .

. . . it ended badly.

--J.D.

[Doctor X]

["Poof!"--Ed.]

--J.D.

[Shelli]

wassat?

[Chris Porter]

Sundews. (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=sundew&biw=1879&bih=775) Carnivorous plants.

[Shelli]

Work plants...

[Shelli]

btw, the people in the pic in the last plant pic.. who knows who they are. They came with the frame and we just left 'em there. :giggle:

And the guy in the background of the first pic sits behind me. He's one of the two owners. The other owner sits directly behind that plant but wasn't in yet (or I wouldn't have taken that pic). :shiftier:

[Doctor X]

wassat?

Cape Sundews!

--J.D.

[mulebear]

Nice Sundews.

I wish we still had our Pitcher Plants and Red Venus Fly Traps, but without a marsh in the backyard... Well... They didn't overwinter very well.

[Doctor X]

You can correct that. Both Venus Fly Traps and most Pitchers require a dormancy during the Winter which people misinterpret as "it die!"

A good place for information--and plants!--is California Carnivores (http://www.californiacarnivores.com). If you have the ability to put them outside they, literally, feed themselves. You can actually contact the guy who runs the place, discuss where you live, and he will help you.

--J.D.

[Doctor X]

Want:

http://www.californiacarnivores.com/images/products/display/Collect_Build_Bog.jpg

This (http://www.californiacarnivores.com/makeyourownmini-bog.aspx)

--J.D.

[Doctor X]

My Eaters of Beasties:

Venus Fly Trap [Of Doom.--Ed.]

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/DoctorX_photos/Plants/30cf0750.jpg

you can see the legs of a spidey that wandered in a trap. Spiders are often attracted to the remains of previous victims in the traps.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/DoctorX_photos/Plants/26fd3c44.jpg

Here is another view. The traps form a rosette of large and small with some low to the ground and others that grow high.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/DoctorX_photos/Plants/6613bbf3.jpg

this one had caught a spidey before I got it. Cynical-Chick should be pleased. :spider:

Sundews

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/DoctorX_photos/Plants/18190c75.jpg

This is a baby Cape Sundew. They are like a weed in that they grow readily and produce lots of seeds. They transplant easily. This little fella started growing on the "scum" on the water in the dish one of the pots sit in. More on that later.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/DoctorX_photos/Plants/8fb9cf83.jpg

Here is an "adult" Cape Sundew. Look carefully on the left:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/DoctorX_photos/Plants/7cff68f7.jpg

This unfortunate spidey decided to try to nest on a Cape Sundew.

Sundew 1
Spidey 0

Back to the scum. A ubiquitous fellow traveler are bladder worts These plants have traps located in the soil and the water. It feeds on wee-wee beasties, hence the reason I allow the "scum" in the water--keeps the bladder worts happy! They have tiny yet beautifuls flowers:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/DoctorX_photos/Plants/015c11f3.jpg

--J.D.

[Shelli]

Coolness! :awesome:

[teasasue]

I think I need to get one of those if they kill spiders

[Doctor X]

The Cape Sundews are VERY easy to grow--you just have to have a supply of deionized water--all salts removed--usually available in those huge dispensers in supermarkets. Other than that, they grow themselves literally.

--J.D.

[Doctor X]

I should have photographed them when the flowers were still open. The stalk grows a good foot above the plant and opens with multiple flowers for a few weeks :excited:

Mine have finished flowering :sadcheer: but here is a picky I found:

http://www.plantoftheweek.org/image/drosera.jpg

mine grow much longer than that :snooty: :bunnythrust:

Here be flowers:

http://www.sandjgreens.com/Cape_Sundew_files/sd_bloom_gray_back.jpg

--J.D.

[Shelli]

ooo.. purty purple flowers. :flower:

[Doctor X]

Mine are white :snooty:

Of course, I do not have any at present :sadcheer:

--J.D.

P.S. I do not let my VFT flower because it taxes the plant. This does not seem to bother CSD--they flower readily whilst growing lushly. One thing they need is sun, but if you do not have a sill, simply sticking them under a lamp for a few hours does the trick.

[Shelli]

71 plants in total now... 54 at home - 47 of them in the living room alone :whoa: 17 at work. Can't count the outside plants (flowers) 'cause they done did freeze.

Only 29 more to go before I reach the big 1 0 0 :bonsai:

[Shelli]

As of today, make that 73 plants. :awesome:

[Shelli]

My front living room plants... as it stands now... subject to change without notice :leaf:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=8383&d=1327853542

[Shelli]

Back Living Room Plants: arrowhead plant, two types of dracaena, a huge pot of variegated snake plants, and another small plant in the same family as the snake plant... you don't see the dust... :snake:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=8384&d=1327858880

[Shelli]

From left to right, top to bottom :flytrap:


Miniature Afrian Violet in cute little mini pot in the kitchen :squee:

Pothos and and a philodendron in the kitchen that I haven't decided on a permanent home yet :girlthink:

Front bedroom plants: maidenhair fern, asparagus plant, and a type of succulent that I grew from cuttings ... and ... KITTEH! :catwave:

Side bedroom philodendron ... and ... TIGGER! :tigger2:

Back corner bedroom grape ivy :grapes:

[Shelli]

These were my outside flowers this past spring and summer. From left to right, top to bottom :gardening:


These were great.. they kept flowering from spring through summer. :flower:

These were a really pretty purple when they were in full bloom. :fl14:

These really filled in over the spring and summer and grew so tall that I had to stake them. Great smell too. :sml:

My first experiment with a container of different flowers. The flowers to the left and right of the big white ones in the middle really filled out and bloomed all season long. :bouquet:

I sunk the pots into the ground (putting gravel in the bottom of each pot for better drainage) so that my mutts wouldn't tip them over. The tall purple flowers to the left smelled so good. That white stuff on top of the dirt is this stuff I bought to try to keep the damn squirrels from digging up my flowers. It only somewhat worked.

My second multi-flower container. It took a long time to put this together but it was a lot of fun and I loved the outcome. :garden:

My third multi-flower container. This one really filled in nicely... possibly my favorite out of the three. :flowerdance:

Two different types of lily. The looked beautiful and smelled even better. It was really tough keeping the rodents out of these. :violets:

I think the doggies liked 'em too :dog:

[Shelli]

With Mother's day coming up, the garden center I go to has cute miniture african violets back in stock... AND... they're having a buy 1 get 2nd half price sale going on. :excited:

[Chris Porter]

Shelli, your outdoor plants are totally awesome. I hope someday to have a flower-filled garden like that.

[Shelli]

:thankee: I put a lot of work into them, except it really wasn't "work" for me. I loved it. :cheerful:

[Shelli]

75 Plants as of today! :8D I picked up of two miniature african violets today.. one with light green leaves and white flowers and the other with dark green leaves and variegated flowers of dark purple and white. :violets:

[Shelli]

Last, but not least..... office plants! :garden:

From left to right, top to bottom:


My wall of office plants around my desk ... along with various this & thats :bunnythrust:

My windowsill office plants ... along with various this & thats :shinything:

Oh noes! The forest is encroaching on the city... I ran out of room around my desk... :woopsie:

OMG! One somehow got onto someone elses desk! :gasp:

Waiting area plant. Every office needs one of those, right? Right. :biggrin:

[ceptimus]

I love the way that when you decide to do something, Shelli, you do it properly! :)

Whether it's pets, herbal teas, tattoos, plants, motorbikes, smilies or whatever, you can be sure that when tiggermonkey takes an interest in something, she takes a real interest!

Kudos! :super: :bow2: :worship:

[Chris Porter]

Shelli, we have three indoor plants at the moment, an english ivy, a jade plant, and a very large peace lily (Spathiphyllum). We have found out that all these plants are toxic to cats and dogs. Do you stay away from toxic plants because of your pets, or do you use some aversive behavior modification so your pets avoid plants? We don't really want to get rid of our indoor plants, but we also want to have a cat and a dog.

[Shelli]

I either keep the plants that are toxic to animals at work or out of reach of them at home.

I have more plants downstairs than up that wouldn't make my cats too happy if they nom'd them because the cats don't go downstairs due to the dogs. Those plants are out of reach to the dogs but would be within jumping distance for the cats.

I have a jade and a philodendron upstairs, however, they are both hanging and I've made sure that the cats can't get to them.

The asparagus fern that's hanging over my bed is non-toxic so it doesn't matter if they do a little munching here and there which they do.

At first, I was sticking to strictly non-toxic plants throughout my house but when I realized how limited I'd be sticking to that, I just made sure that the toxic plants were animal proof. :=)

[Shelli]

76 Plants! I picked up an absolutely gorgeous, blooming, Bridal Veil for the office. :bliss:

It's in the same family as the Wandering Jew and has the same pretty dark purple underside to the leaves. :leaf:


This is not mine, I haven't taken a pic of it yet, but this is what it looks like:

http://www.pernellgerver.com/tahitianbridalveil.jpg

[Shelli]

Today at lunch, in celebration of our :happysun:, warm, pre-spring day :flowerdance: I picked up a big, bushy white gardenia for the table in back of my boss to replace a plant that was at the end of its life. :mourning:

When I got back in, I whisked the dead plant away while she was away from her desk. :shiftier:

After I had gotten the gardenia pruned of the few yellow leaves it had and set it in its pot, I brought it back in hoping that she'd still be away from her desk :ffshifty: only to find that she was back at her desk. :sadcheer:

However, seeing that she was all focused on her computer screen, I skipped not a beat and just walked by/behind her like it was nothing unsual and put the new plant in the old plants place. She didn't even notice me. :cheer:

After I finished lunch and got back to my desk, I called her extension and told her to turn around. She said, sounding sad, "Yeah, I noticed.. it's gone." :=(

I replied, "Turn around again." :biggrin:

She exclaimed, "OMG! It's gorgeous!" :8D ... Then when I told her what it was, she said, "I know what it is! This area is going to smell SO nice!" :excited:

She's right too. :wai: There's only one flower out of a zillion buds so far and it already smells awesome. :awesome:

77 Plants! :bliss:

[Shelli]

Oh, it looks just like this pic but with only one flower so far. :sml:

http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/590/draft_lens1984396module134426941photo_1290123745gardenia-floor-plant.jpg

[Shelli]

Oh, and the receptionist loves her bushy, blooming, trailing Bridal Veil :cheerful: even though it poops plant stuff on her desk. :giggle:

[PopeyesPappy]

My Epiphyllum Oxypetalum better known around here as the night blooming cereus or Jesus in the manger plant.


http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f158/popeyespappy/NBC310-14-11.jpg

[livius drusus]

Shelli, your yard is the incarnation (invegetation?) of Tiggerness. It's full of variety, color, interspecies harmony, glowing good health and vigor. I find it absolutely charming. It would make the perfect setting for a children's book.

[Qingdai]

Except for the crack wars down the block, but hey! Every good book needs some drama!

:laugh:

[livius drusus]

The neighborhood crack wars only confirm the special, some say magical, nature of the Shelliyard.

[Shelli]

:thankee: liv & :giggle:

[Shelli]

omgomgomgomg :zomg:

As a surprise, my step-son ordered me a Gardman 4-Tier Mini Greenhouse from Amazon .. due to arrive Monday! :8D

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/e5/63/58a051c88da09836ff811210.L._AA300_.jpg



Now I'm all busy thinking about and looking up what I can grow in it. :type:


:biggrin: