For today’s post, I’ve put together a top ten of my favourite trailing houseplants that I love to grow here at HOUSE PLANT HOUSE. It wasn’t until I moved again last Summer that I realised that quite a chunk of my plant collection comprises of hanging or trailing houseplants! As I’ve been finding places for…
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Happy New Year to you all! As you might have guessed, I took some time offline over the festive period to work on the renovation project and to also have a few days off too. I’m resuming my regular weekly posting schedule today and I wanted to start things off with a collection of images…
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Today’s post is all about my favourite houseplants to grow in west facing rooms. This is an orientation that I love — it’s such an adaptable setting for houseplant growing + it can facilitate favourable conditions for a relatively wide range of plants. Whilst Southern exposures are lovely + bright their light intensity can be…
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The afternoons slip quickly into dark evenings this time of year and working by candlelight for a few hours is an unexpected joy I’ve discovered this month. It’s been a busy patch of juggling writing and renovating these last few weeks. This changing light that unfolds now is cooler, but lower, stretching deep into the…
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In today’s post we are focusing on houseplants that can tolerate that bright South-facing room in your space. Southern spaces are highly coveted when house-hunting, with rooms bathed in a balmy golden light for a good amount of the day in the Spring + Summer months. The light in these rooms can be strong, intense…
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In this post we are focusing on houseplants that enjoy life in East-facing locations, an orientation that is quite adaptable but the aspect of the intensity of light requires more careful consideration in these spaces. After my post a few weeks ago about houseplants, lighting + room orientation, I want to now focus on each…
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I wanted to share more of a visual post today to celebrate some blooms on a few of my favourite indoor plants. To be clear, I’m not talking about plants such as Orchids or African violets here, but instead I wanted to show how some of our more typical houseplants look when they are in…
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Today’s post is all about my houseplants picks for north facing rooms, a room orientation that is generally considered a somewhat tricky growing space for plant lovers. After my post a few weeks ago about houseplants, lighting + room orientation, I want to now focus on each of the different light exposures — North, East,…
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For today’s blogpost, we are taking a closer look at one of the post popular types of Pothos at the moment — the Manjula pothos. As a houseplant, it’s commonly marketed as either Pothos Manjula or Epipremnum ‘Happy Leaf’ + is a patented variety developed by the University of Florida. It’s part of the Araceae…
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A little Ficus update for today’s post after conversations with a few of you over on instagram recently that were asking to see how my Ficus plants were doing after I potted them up together. If you have been reading HOUSEPLANTHOUSE for a while, you might have seen the ‘Getting Ficus plants to branch’ blogpost,…
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