Sunlight, Warmth, Happiness… and triffids

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Jun 2020
8:29am, 21 Jun 2020
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McGoohan
So… houseplants, eh? They’re the pet it’s okay to forget to feed (sometimes). And they don’t wet themselves (except sometimes).

Do you get pleasure from yours? Or is it one of those annoying ones that drops sticky residue on the window ledge? (I grew a small grapefruit bush from a pip once in a flowerpot in the living room and it basically shed sap into everything. Let's just say it's gone to live on a farm.)

And more importantly have you got any that started off as tiny little cute seedlings and then have grown out of control like a triffid?
Jun 2020
8:31am, 21 Jun 2020
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McGoohan
Here's some of our chaps

Jun 2020
8:37am, 21 Jun 2020
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Bintmcskint
My new favourite thread :-)
Jun 2020
8:39am, 21 Jun 2020
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McGoohan
:-)

I used to collect cacti - their flowers are really lovely - but they do tend to jab you in the fingers when you're not paying attention.

One bloke at work used to have about 25 cacti in small pots on his desk in a grid of 5x5
Jun 2020
8:46am, 21 Jun 2020
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PaulaMc
I sent Bint your way and now I’m thinking I should go and buy some plants just so that I can join in, too.
Jun 2020
8:47am, 21 Jun 2020
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njosmith
Our Claw Cactus has just flowered.

Jun 2020
8:48am, 21 Jun 2020
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McGoohan
Yes, do! :-) I went to Ikea last night (awards self a medal for extreme shopping bravery) and was tempted by a load of very green looking houseplants... until I realised they were all plastic!
Jun 2020
8:49am, 21 Jun 2020
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LazyDaisy
OH, in the days when he was merely boyf, made a little cross out of cocktail sticks with a paper RIP label and stuck it in the pot of an avocado stone my mum was trying to germinate.

She had the last laugh as it *did* germinate.

And turned into the most boring (and unproductive) house plant ever. :-)
Jun 2020
8:49am, 21 Jun 2020
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McGoohan
njosmith - that is lovely (and a bit triffidy) :-)
Jun 2020
8:51am, 21 Jun 2020
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PaulaMc
This is the only houseplant we have. My Nan gave it to me when we moved in together. In 1986. I think OH waters it from time to time. It’s a tenacious bugger.

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