My menagerie

As I mentioned in the last post, I have many indoor plants. Big surprise, right? I'm a sucker for the nearly dead plant left on the sidewalk in the middle of winter or the plants that people want to give away because they're moving or don't want them anymore...You name it, I'll take it. Even if I don't like the darn thing, I'll take it...Sheesh!

So, I've ended up with a bunch of plants that I'm really not all that crazy about, some that I like and a few that I love! Some? I don't even remember how they came to live with me. No idea! Like the Chinese palm in our bedroom upstairs! I haven't the faintest idea where that came from.

When I moved in with my husband, he had manly cacti all over his condo. MAN, did I hate those things. Managed to kill them all! Not on purpose, I just guess I overwatered them, so hasta la vista, cactus!

Since moving into this house 10 years ago, my beloved ficus tree that I had had since 1988 bit the dust. My Aunt came here on a visit and "helped" me by pruning back my houseplants while I was at work one day. She killed my ficus that I had had for 15 years. It was a HAPPY tree before my clip-crazy relative got at it! I was SO upset!

Anyway, now I've got many, many, many plants. These were inherited from a former co-worker:

This last one, a devil's ivy, used to be huge and full and lush. It took a bad spill from the counter and is on its way back to being pretty! Whoops!

On this fish chair are two great plants - my bonsai schefflera and a jade:
That jade is from a cutting from a jade plant that my mother-in-law has that she got the day my husband was born! Cool!

This is a terrible photo, but there are three plants there - one is a devil's ivy that I inherited, the other two are from that neat guy I met at the farmer's market that grew unusual plants; the fig that will get only about 2-3 feet and the bonsai aloe:
LOVE that fig and aloe! They've been living outside all summer, but it's been getting really chilly at night, so I brought them in for now.

A Christmas cactus in our living room. I have NO idea where this came from:I like it, though. It blooms faithfully twice a year for me!

And these last two are also in the living room now. I just bought them at this specialty plant place that I LOVE! I should never have gone in there, but I needed two topiaries for my client!

I have always wanted a maidenhair fern for the inside of the house:
A few years ago I splurged and bought a couple for the outside for the summer, but then Koty immediately peed all over them and that was pretty much the end of that!

And my new piece de resistance, a gorgeous orchid:Isn't it lovely?

I could justify these purchases, as I billed out a TON last week and I deserve some pretties for the inside, right? Thank you!

More to come - just getting started on the ridiculous number of plants I have!

Hope you had a good weekend!

Ciao!