My friend from HK sent me a pic of the plant I bought her this time last year when I was visiting and it cheered me up so I’m going to post a pic a day of my plants to cheer up this timeline https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💚" title="Green heart" aria-label="Emoji: Green heart">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌿" title="Herb" aria-label="Emoji: Herb">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌱" title="Seedling" aria-label="Emoji: Seedling">Feel free to join in. I can also count how many I have too https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing"> Friend’s plant today
My friend from HK sent me a pic of the plant I bought her this time last year when I was visiting and it cheered me up so I’m going to post a pic a day of my plants to cheer up this timeline https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌿" title="Herb" aria-label="Emoji: Herb">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌱" title="Seedling" aria-label="Emoji: Seedling">Feel free to join in. I can also count how many I have too https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing"> Friend’s plant today" title="My friend from HK sent me a pic of the plant I bought her this time last year when I was visiting and it cheered me up so I’m going to post a pic a day of my plants to cheer up this timeline https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💚" title="Green heart" aria-label="Emoji: Green heart">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌿" title="Herb" aria-label="Emoji: Herb">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌱" title="Seedling" aria-label="Emoji: Seedling">Feel free to join in. I can also count how many I have too https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing"> Friend’s plant today" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
Here’s a pic of when I bought it for her - so tiny!
And here’s my own pennywort, which has finally recovered from a bug infestation and is getting bigger now, and spreading fast!
Day 2: the turn of the pilea. Any tips on growing these? My tiny one has stayed this size for years and the big one started out full and always end up skinny and lanky. Do plants end up looking like their owners, just like dogs?! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌿" title="Herb" aria-label="Emoji: Herb">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌱" title="Seedling" aria-label="Emoji: Seedling">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💚" title="Green heart" aria-label="Emoji: Green heart">
Date palms, free plants, grown from seeds after eating fresh dates. I just washed the seeds and chucked them in the soil https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌱" title="Seedling" aria-label="Emoji: Seedling">
I forgot to post at the weekend so have two today: orchid and sansevieria. I’m a bit embarrassed about the sansevieria that @sabineschutte gave me. Impossible to kill, but I always like a challenge https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing"> It has lovely new growth but the outer leaves weren’t happy or healthy https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌿" title="Herb" aria-label="Emoji: Herb">
Moved sansevieria this morning to the balcony door so that it gets some suba. I think the spot in the hallway was too dark for it.
My sophora prostrata tree today. Love the zigzag branches
Lippie on today as it’s Friday https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💄" title="Lipstick" aria-label="Emoji: Lipstick">(yes, losing track of the days!) It gets its name from the blooms, which resemble lipsticks, but too early for any flowers yet. Aeschynanthus radicans; lipstick vine - my sis grew this from a cutting from her mama plant https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💚" title="Green heart" aria-label="Emoji: Green heart"> Like red tinge on leaves
Today the humble spider plant and go-to plant for beginners as apparently it is difficult to kill. Try telling that to all my dead plants https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing"> Any tips? Cuttings from one of the bell ringers. Do you like my pots? Do they look like them?! #crazypineapplelady https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🍍" title="Pineapple" aria-label="Emoji: Pineapple"> #postaplantaday
#postaplantaday today, the 1970s Busy Lizzie, Impatiens walleriana. I grew them from seed but this is the only one that survived the winter. Brought them in from the balcony over Christmas as it was too cold out there. Will try again and see if I can take a cutting or two too https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌱" title="Seedling" aria-label="Emoji: Seedling">
Morning! The bunny ears cactushttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐰" title="Rabbit face" aria-label="Emoji: Rabbit face">, the opuntia microdasys. I know to water it when her ears droop a little or as I describe it, depressed ears https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing"> She’s in a vintage diner sugar bowl, bought from #NYC @FishsEddyNYC - of course I bought it because of the https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🍍" title="Pineapple" aria-label="Emoji: Pineapple">- can you spot it?
#postaplantaday the only fern I can grow, the button fern, Pellaea rotundifolia
#postaplantaday the Variegated jade plant/money plant; crassula ovata ‘Hummel’s Sunset’ f. Variegata
#postaplantaday Late today as I had a day of meetings! String of hearts or Ceropegia woodii - and some new leaves https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌱" title="Seedling" aria-label="Emoji: Seedling"> It’s grown very long since I got her as a gift for my birthday in September. Do you like the pot too? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy">
#postaplantaday my gardenia. The new leaves are luminescent lime https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌱" title="Seedling" aria-label="Emoji: Seedling">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💚" title="Green heart" aria-label="Emoji: Green heart"> And fingers crossed these are flower buds https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤞🏻" title="Crossed fingers (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Crossed fingers (light skin tone)"> I love the scent of these flowers.
#postaplantaday Another impossible-to-kill plant which I manage very well https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing" aria-label="Emoji: Rolling on the floor laughing"> #zzplant Zamioculcas zamiifolia. Too scared to kill it so don’t water it but wilting! Given it a good old drink https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💦" title="Splashing sweat symbol" aria-label="Emoji: Splashing sweat symbol"> - there’s new shoots so there’s hope! Also doesn’t look like anyone else’s zz plant!
Today, baby jade plant/money plant; crassula ovata grown from fallen leaves from the mother plant. And planted in chai tea cups, souvenirs from a conference dinner in Hyderabad, India https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😍" title="Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes">
The asparagus fern for today’s #postaplantaday, which isn’t a fern, hence why I can keep it alive! It has lost a lot of its bushy-ness and has grown lanky and thin but it continues to grow and likes where it is so I’m not moving it.
Today’s #postaplantaday since these won’t last/be in bloom forever and my houseplants will (I hope! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤞🏻" title="Crossed fingers (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Crossed fingers (light skin tone)">) is the snakeshead fritillary on the #balconygarden https://twitter.com/soshanau/status/1248170369309081605?s=21">https://twitter.com/soshanau/... https://twitter.com/soshanau/status/1248170369309081605">https://twitter.com/soshanau/...
#postaplantaday is the narcissus baby moon on the #balconygarden since it’s in bloom at the moment - cute as a button (and the same size!) Smells divine!
#postaplantaday epiphyllum cutting from my Mum. It has new growth/leaves. Not sure if the variety but Mum has had white flowers from this cactus m, which came out at night! I remember staying up at night to watch it bloom! Can’t get good pic of it without showing the messy flat!
New addition to living room, from balcony garden as it had planted itself in a rogue pot! Saxifraga stolonifera or strawberry begonia, called that since it likes to propagate via runners, like strawberries #postaplantaday! another lovely vintage pot with @thegentleauthor books
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