This plant is insanely stressful but one of my favorites. I had to hack half the plant off a few years ago to keep her growing due to some serious infestation, then she teased me just January with two blooms. One never opened, the other for just a day (usually you get two or three) and I didn't get a picture! Now she's added two leaves but it's trying to grow entirely outside the pot and will require staking.
She's by far the moody teenager of my plants, I am pretty sure she keeps a journal of my failings as a plant mom and communicates with gnats on social media.
This is a circle for discussing plants, fungi, and slime mold. From flower beds to hobby farms; from your dying windowsill basil plant to kitchen gardens; from wild mushrooms to your failed tabletop mushroom kit.
If the species falls under the aforementioned categories, you are welcome to share advice, success, and failure.
Identification requests are also permitted, just please add the "ID Request" flair to your post.
Lastly, pictures of animals (e.g. bees) in your gardens are also welcome, but please keep animal agriculture to an extreme minimum--our focus is flora, not fauna.
Guidelines:
Be very careful about revealing your location information. If you need to give details, you probably should be as vague as possible, ie: "a desert", "the southwest US", or "USDA Zone 9"
Be very considerate of the content of photographs and if they reveal anything that can be used to de-anonymize you.
This plant is insanely stressful but one of my favorites. I had to hack half the plant off a few years ago to keep her growing due to some serious infestation, then she teased me just January with two blooms. One never opened, the other for just a day (usually you get two or three) and I didn't get a picture! Now she's added two leaves but it's trying to grow entirely outside the pot and will require staking.
She's by far the moody teenager of my plants, I am pretty sure she keeps a journal of my failings as a plant mom and communicates with gnats on social media.
She is beautiful. Your plants all look so healthy and strong. I cannot wait for the day that we discover houseplant social media.
Thank you for the kind words!
I am mildly terrified of what social media for houseplants might look like. Imagine the drama between ferns? I can see it now:
Inspirational fronds or inflammatory foliage, you decide! Alligator fern refuses to spore for friends. Maiden hair calls out austral gem.
This is hilarious!