I'd love some suggestions, too! I watched an inspiring YT video from Laura Horn a while back (https://youtu.be/tqnsZpg1lJE?si=kxtoS2qgJP1e071m) and I saw that Denise Love has some classes on Skillshare (which I haven't watched, but here is one: https://skl.sh/4hAYuQ7). I'd love to know what else might be helpful.
Thanks, Nancy! I love it, too. I actually have two of them. They're easy to find. The first one used to be my husband's, bought at an art/craft shop over 25 years ago! I can't remember if I got the second one from Dick Blick or from Amazon. You can find them many places online and also in brick and mortar art/craft stores. Search for "20 well plastic palette." (Yep, it's plastic).
Such a happy looking home Anne! I think that plants add so much interest, beauty, etc. both indoors & out. Thanks for writing about houseplants AND sharing pictures of yours. I'm adding to my small collection, thanks for the inspiration. Can you please share the name of the trailing pink plant in the 3rd photo that's on the right edge of the photo? It's gorgeous! Thanks, Laurie
Thank you, Laurie! Hooray for your plant collection!
The plant you mentioned is Tradescantia zebrina, which used to be called Wandering Jew and now is seen as Wandering Dude or also inch plant. I got it as a cutting from a friend and have since chopped it multiple times. Super easy to root in water. Some of the vines in the photo are growing in a pot and some are in a jar of water. They look so pretty when the sunlight streams through the leaves.
Thanks for taking the time to reply to me Anne! I've just purchased 5 more plants for my kitchen (I spend oodles of time there)!! I'd like to purchase a watering can to water the hard to reach plants. Do you recommend one?? 🧡
Yay for more plants! I need a new watering can for indoors, too. Mine is a little too small and requires too many trips to fill it up. I haven't started looking yet, but if I find a good one, I'll let you know!
All the greenery in your house feels so bright & uplifting! Your houseplants are gorgeous! I have about 10 that I consider "easy care" houseplants and my Flaming Katy rescue plant (that I did a blog post on last year) is just starting to bloom with gorgeous clusters of small, bright red flowers! Watching it bloom gives me so much joy. While I don't have that many plants, there isn't a surface in my mom's apartment that doesn't have a plant! She even has a Christmas cactus that she grew from a cutting of my plant in university, so it's over 35 years old! 😉 Thanks for sharing your cheery plants!
Thank you so much, Karen! I love the story of your rescued Flaming Katy and I'm so glad that it's blooming again! I love how plants and their stories bring us together. Thanks for sharing about your mom and her Christmas cactus, too!
I got some house plants during the Covid shutdown and have slowly gotten a few more and learned a few things to make them happier. I have about 10 now. Your house looks amazing!! My mom also has many houseplants.
Thank you, Lea! Hooray for a growing love of houseplants! One of the good things to come out of the pandemic was how many people started growing houseplants and gardening. Keep enjoying your plants!
Good grief woman! Your indoor air quality must be superb and do all those plants help keep the humidity at a good rate? But that huge one in your livingroom makes me think of sci fi movies about giant human eating plants! I can't imagine not living with at least a few plants throughout the house. As I've mentioned to you before, some have been with me (or at least their cuttings) since the 70's when I went off to college and a friend of my mother's gave them to me. They've been like friends, along with all the others I've added over the years, surviving many moves to many states, something familiar in the new unfamiliar place. I've tried African violets without a great deal of success so I understand your reluctance. Plants gifted to me through florists often don't do well, I think because they are sometimes stressed into mature growth. But the two that went off to college with me have always been my favorites - a shamrock and a philodendron - and a peace lily from my late husband's memorial service in 2000 that sends up a single bloom every year around Easter.
Haha, your comment about the sci fi movies made me laugh. My husband is a big fan of Tom Baker's Dr. Who. Not too long ago he had us watch the episode The Seeds of Doom where the plants take over and try to kill everyone. Since then he keeps saying that we live in the Seeds of Doom house.
Isn't it lovely how the plants that have been with us for so long truly are our friends. And they connect us to people we love and our memories of them.
You do have quite the collection of houseplants, Anne! What percentage of them summer outside? Do you have any crown of thorns euphorbia? It's one of my faves as it blooms all year round. It summers outside in the sun and winters in my East facing bay window. It will also survive in a 50° garage all winter, but drops its leaves and sleeps. I have both red and white flowering ones, both of which came from the grocery store. It's wickedly thorny and is the very devil to repot!
Love the wandering jew (tradescantia) painting. It's a plant from my Florida childhood, which my dad used as a ground cover in our garden beds. I planted about ten 3" cuttings in my kitchen window box last year and it hung down at least three feet by fall and was so lush and full. Such an easy one to grow and propagate.
Keep enjoying your houseplants, we still have a good bit of winter to survive before we can play outside again!
Very few of my plants summer outside. I just don't have a good place for them. At my old house I used to take almost all of my plants outside in the summer. Now it's only my citrus and sometimes my Thanksgiving cactus and things like geranium and impatiens cuttings and plants like rosemary that can't make it through our winters. This summer I want to find a good place for my night blooming cereus because I'd really like to get some flowers.
I don't have any crown of thorns. I tend to steer clear of plants with prickles and thorns. My father-in-law has some beautiful varieties. He loves cacti and succulents and enjoys collecting unusual specimens.
We do have a lot more winter, but lots of good garden planning and seed-starting ahead of us!
You really are great at growing plants! That fiddle leaf fig in your living room looks so interesting. I grew up surrounded by tons of plants as well. My mom also always finds a spot for a new plant. Have you ever counted your plants?
I sure enjoyed this article, and seeing your plants. During winter months I select leaves from my plants and use them for gel printing. Endless fun!
I've never gel printed! Do you recommend who I learn from Peggy? I have many pretty leaves! 😊 Laurie
I'd love some suggestions, too! I watched an inspiring YT video from Laura Horn a while back (https://youtu.be/tqnsZpg1lJE?si=kxtoS2qgJP1e071m) and I saw that Denise Love has some classes on Skillshare (which I haven't watched, but here is one: https://skl.sh/4hAYuQ7). I'd love to know what else might be helpful.
Thanks so much, Peggy! I love the idea of using the leaves for gel printing. I need to get out my gelli plate!
I’m in love with that fiddle leaf fig! I want one. I love your teal couch too. 👌
Thanks so much, Kim. I love them, too. Working from home if I walk by the living room it's tempting to just snuggle up on the couch. Someday I will!
If we lived closer I'd give you one of my fig babies.💚
Love your large palette! Can you say where you got it?
Thanks, Nancy! I love it, too. I actually have two of them. They're easy to find. The first one used to be my husband's, bought at an art/craft shop over 25 years ago! I can't remember if I got the second one from Dick Blick or from Amazon. You can find them many places online and also in brick and mortar art/craft stores. Search for "20 well plastic palette." (Yep, it's plastic).
Thank you so much!! I also love your work! 🤭Will be following you. Don’t be scared!!
Such a happy looking home Anne! I think that plants add so much interest, beauty, etc. both indoors & out. Thanks for writing about houseplants AND sharing pictures of yours. I'm adding to my small collection, thanks for the inspiration. Can you please share the name of the trailing pink plant in the 3rd photo that's on the right edge of the photo? It's gorgeous! Thanks, Laurie
Thank you, Laurie! Hooray for your plant collection!
The plant you mentioned is Tradescantia zebrina, which used to be called Wandering Jew and now is seen as Wandering Dude or also inch plant. I got it as a cutting from a friend and have since chopped it multiple times. Super easy to root in water. Some of the vines in the photo are growing in a pot and some are in a jar of water. They look so pretty when the sunlight streams through the leaves.
Thanks for taking the time to reply to me Anne! I've just purchased 5 more plants for my kitchen (I spend oodles of time there)!! I'd like to purchase a watering can to water the hard to reach plants. Do you recommend one?? 🧡
Yay for more plants! I need a new watering can for indoors, too. Mine is a little too small and requires too many trips to fill it up. I haven't started looking yet, but if I find a good one, I'll let you know!
Thanks Anne! I thought that with the gazillion houseplants you have AND need to water, you'd have the "perfect" one to use!! 🤣🤣
Perhaps someday! Haha! If you find a wonderful one, let me know, too.☺️
All the greenery in your house feels so bright & uplifting! Your houseplants are gorgeous! I have about 10 that I consider "easy care" houseplants and my Flaming Katy rescue plant (that I did a blog post on last year) is just starting to bloom with gorgeous clusters of small, bright red flowers! Watching it bloom gives me so much joy. While I don't have that many plants, there isn't a surface in my mom's apartment that doesn't have a plant! She even has a Christmas cactus that she grew from a cutting of my plant in university, so it's over 35 years old! 😉 Thanks for sharing your cheery plants!
Thank you so much, Karen! I love the story of your rescued Flaming Katy and I'm so glad that it's blooming again! I love how plants and their stories bring us together. Thanks for sharing about your mom and her Christmas cactus, too!
I got some house plants during the Covid shutdown and have slowly gotten a few more and learned a few things to make them happier. I have about 10 now. Your house looks amazing!! My mom also has many houseplants.
Thank you, Lea! Hooray for a growing love of houseplants! One of the good things to come out of the pandemic was how many people started growing houseplants and gardening. Keep enjoying your plants!
Good grief woman! Your indoor air quality must be superb and do all those plants help keep the humidity at a good rate? But that huge one in your livingroom makes me think of sci fi movies about giant human eating plants! I can't imagine not living with at least a few plants throughout the house. As I've mentioned to you before, some have been with me (or at least their cuttings) since the 70's when I went off to college and a friend of my mother's gave them to me. They've been like friends, along with all the others I've added over the years, surviving many moves to many states, something familiar in the new unfamiliar place. I've tried African violets without a great deal of success so I understand your reluctance. Plants gifted to me through florists often don't do well, I think because they are sometimes stressed into mature growth. But the two that went off to college with me have always been my favorites - a shamrock and a philodendron - and a peace lily from my late husband's memorial service in 2000 that sends up a single bloom every year around Easter.
Haha, your comment about the sci fi movies made me laugh. My husband is a big fan of Tom Baker's Dr. Who. Not too long ago he had us watch the episode The Seeds of Doom where the plants take over and try to kill everyone. Since then he keeps saying that we live in the Seeds of Doom house.
Isn't it lovely how the plants that have been with us for so long truly are our friends. And they connect us to people we love and our memories of them.
Thanks for sharing about your plants!
You do have quite the collection of houseplants, Anne! What percentage of them summer outside? Do you have any crown of thorns euphorbia? It's one of my faves as it blooms all year round. It summers outside in the sun and winters in my East facing bay window. It will also survive in a 50° garage all winter, but drops its leaves and sleeps. I have both red and white flowering ones, both of which came from the grocery store. It's wickedly thorny and is the very devil to repot!
Love the wandering jew (tradescantia) painting. It's a plant from my Florida childhood, which my dad used as a ground cover in our garden beds. I planted about ten 3" cuttings in my kitchen window box last year and it hung down at least three feet by fall and was so lush and full. Such an easy one to grow and propagate.
Keep enjoying your houseplants, we still have a good bit of winter to survive before we can play outside again!
Very few of my plants summer outside. I just don't have a good place for them. At my old house I used to take almost all of my plants outside in the summer. Now it's only my citrus and sometimes my Thanksgiving cactus and things like geranium and impatiens cuttings and plants like rosemary that can't make it through our winters. This summer I want to find a good place for my night blooming cereus because I'd really like to get some flowers.
I don't have any crown of thorns. I tend to steer clear of plants with prickles and thorns. My father-in-law has some beautiful varieties. He loves cacti and succulents and enjoys collecting unusual specimens.
We do have a lot more winter, but lots of good garden planning and seed-starting ahead of us!
You really are great at growing plants! That fiddle leaf fig in your living room looks so interesting. I grew up surrounded by tons of plants as well. My mom also always finds a spot for a new plant. Have you ever counted your plants?
Thank you, Dana. I did count my plants recently. I have 87 potted plants and another 29 containers of cuttings growing in water.
Truly delightful and inspiring. Thank you for the encouragement!🌿💚
Thank you, Leenie! And you're welcome!☺️