The Madagascar Dragon Tree (Dracaena Marginata) is quite an unassuming plant in my flat …it lives on top of my fridge in the kitchen – and to be honest, I sometimes forget it’s there. It has delicate sword like narrow green leaves that are lined with a dark red/brown that grow from thin stems that…
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Moon Cactus (Gymnocalycium Mihanovichii Hibotan) is a really distinctive cactus, also sometimes called a ‘chin cactus’ – with a bright fiery red form on top of a green column. It moves around my flat quite a lot – at the moment it’s on the kitchen windowsill, but before that it was on the top shelf…
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This is the second jade plant I have – it’s in a sunnier position to my other plant and it’s grown quite differently. I thought I’d post some photographs to show how different positioning can affect plants in a variety of ways. This one is in my office and gets more bright sun – I…
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I‘ve had this plant for a few years now, it’s a very slow grower and am just now thinking about repotting some of the offsets around the base of the plant. It’s a Haworthia Limifolia which is also known as the ‘fairy washboard’ plant! I’ve kept it in this pot from Anthropologie since I bought it…
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So …I did my usual trick of going food shopping and ending up coming home with a plant! I bought this Dwarf Umbrella Plant (Schefflera Arboricola ‘Gold Capella’) for five pounds when I saw it lurking near the tills. I’ve been enjoying reading some vintage houseplant books recently (will post on this soon) and this one…
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This post is going to discuss the progress of my Snake Plant (Sansevieria Trifasciata var. Laurentii). I have two other varieties of sansevieria – the cylindrica and the hahnii which I will feature in a future post. The plant, which is also commonly referred to as ‘Mother-in-Law’s Tongue’, has a reputation as being an almost indestructible, easy…
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This post collates my photographs from my recent trip to Bordeaux – I snapped quite a few ‘plants in shops’ images that I posted on Instagram whilst I was away (my Instagram is ‘_houseplanthouse’). I wanted to use these photographs in a post so that I could write a little bit more about them and…
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Here are some photographs showing my Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana (also known as ‘Flaming Katy’). I’ve had this succulent for around two years and it’s kept its pretty pink flowers since it bloomed in spring, but they are just starting to wilt so will cut them back soon. When the plant has been pruned, move the plant into…
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Here is my collection of spider plants (chlorophytum comosum, also called airplane plants) that I’ve been growing over the last 2 years, after being given a baby plant from a lovely lady called Sarah. The main plant has been growing steadily over this time (photo below), although I think I put it in a pot that was slightly…
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This houseplant is one that I like to call an ‘indoor/outdoor’ plant because depending on the time of year, it occupies both of these spaces… at winter it lives in my kitchen, but come Spring it sits on my balcony until late Autumn. It’s the oxalis triangularis, more commonly known as the false or purple shamrock,…
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