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lebateleur) wrote2021-08-27 10:11 pm
lebateleur) wrote2021-08-27 10:11 pm
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Friday Flora: Microclimate Edition
For decades, I was strictly an 'herbs and African violets' kind of person, but recently I've grown braver about trying to raise more finicky (read: tropical) plants.
It's actually going pretty well, largely, I think, because I have enough of them to group them together to create a little microclimate region where they can bask in each other's humidity. They seem to be enjoying it:
The orchid in the lower left is the phalaenopsis I found waiting to be rehomed while out walking on my birthday this year. Judging by the flowers it's producing, it's pretty happy with its new home. The smaller orchid blooming on the table is a gift from the GC to commemorate the end of a particularly trying month at work. The one in the red pot on the lower right has been with me for eight years. At one point it was down to one leaf and a root stub, and taught me everything I know about reviving distressed orchids.
The spider plant began its life as a wee spiderbaby from the library plant exchange three years ago and has. Not. Stopped. Growing since. (Bonus points if you spotted the other spider plant in the background; that one was another 'free to a good home' neighbor walk acquisition.)
The same, from a different angle, which gives a better view of the rest of the orchid family, as well as a calathea, a maranta, a coffee tree, a bromeliad, several ferns, and various and sundry air plants. The Christmas cactus is another distressed plant I picked up for about $0.50 at a subterranean Rite-Aid and nursed back to health. It's put out massive red blooms several times a year ever since.
これで以上です。
It's actually going pretty well, largely, I think, because I have enough of them to group them together to create a little microclimate region where they can bask in each other's humidity. They seem to be enjoying it:
The orchid in the lower left is the phalaenopsis I found waiting to be rehomed while out walking on my birthday this year. Judging by the flowers it's producing, it's pretty happy with its new home. The smaller orchid blooming on the table is a gift from the GC to commemorate the end of a particularly trying month at work. The one in the red pot on the lower right has been with me for eight years. At one point it was down to one leaf and a root stub, and taught me everything I know about reviving distressed orchids.
The spider plant began its life as a wee spiderbaby from the library plant exchange three years ago and has. Not. Stopped. Growing since. (Bonus points if you spotted the other spider plant in the background; that one was another 'free to a good home' neighbor walk acquisition.)
The same, from a different angle, which gives a better view of the rest of the orchid family, as well as a calathea, a maranta, a coffee tree, a bromeliad, several ferns, and various and sundry air plants. The Christmas cactus is another distressed plant I picked up for about $0.50 at a subterranean Rite-Aid and nursed back to health. It's put out massive red blooms several times a year ever since.
これで以上です。
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