All three of my Phalaenopsis orchids are in bloom at the same time!
The veiny one is a rebloom off the original flower spike (the stem stayed green after the first flowers fell). The dark pink one is a new flower spike off my first orchid. And the white spotted one is the original spike it had when I got it.
I finally cleared off and organized my vanity counter, added a wall shelf next to it, and got all the plants organized in this area of my room. My Money Tree is positioned in the best possible place where it gives shade to the orchids (one of them randomly got sunburnt!! Owch!) But the vibes right here are soooo tropical and I love it. My Zygopetalum orchid’s flower spike died, but I already see some new growth coming in since I repotted it (I’m suuuper excited for more Zygo flowers bc they smell so good.)
((Also, the dark pink orchid opened up this morning, and I’m soooo relieved it’s not the same colour as the veiny one - when I bought the veiny one, I forgot what colour the dark one was. So now I have 3 different kinds that all match! Phew!!)) #orchid #orchids #phalaenopsis #miniphal #miniphalaenopsis #phalaenopsisorchids #pink #purple #flower #flowers #blooms #pandemicgardening #tropicalgarden #tropical #indoorgardening #indoorplants #moneytree #pachira https://www.instagram.com/p/CaxkTuQPaTP/?utm_medium=tumblr
The seeds on my salmon poinsettia were falling off, so I picked the loose ones before they get my window sill all sticky. Apparently once they are all brown and dried out, the seeds inside these seed pods will be ready for planting. I have no idea what they will look like inside there lol, but I’m excited nonetheless. The smell of this poinsettia is something like the smell of dark chocolate, so it was very tempting to lick the pollen and juice off my fingers. (But I didn’t!)
Also it looks like my red poinsettia is making a new bloom!! So late in the season!! Idk what to do! I was going to repot them into their larger pots, but if it’s about to flower maybe I should wait it out… my room never has seasons anyway, I always keep it as warm as I can, so I’m wondering if this will mess with the poinsettias’ annual cycles… They require pure darkness in the evening in fall, but if the temperature is wrong, idk if I will get them to bloom again properly… (I was kinda using them as a test run for when I plant another green plant that requires special dark hours as well but maybe I’m better off planting those ones outside.)
Anyway, once the pink one is done with growing the last seed pods, I will repot that one, and probably the red one at the same time. I have the pots and plant stands all ready for ‘em, I’m just impatiently waiting for the seeds. (And also hoping I can get some of the seeds to acclimate to our outdoors weather!) ❤❤ How are YOUR poinsettias holding up? #plant #plants #indoorgardening #indoorplants #poinsettia #poinsettias #variegated #poinsettiaseeds #poinsettiapropagation #euphorbiaceae #euphorbiapulcherrima #pandemicgardening #winter #houseplant #houseplants #seedpods #seedcollection #seeds #flowers #blooms #bracts https://www.instagram.com/p/CaAy0lIv1TY/?utm_medium=tumblr
I bought this Kalanchoe blossfeldiana because the flowers only have 4 petals and 4 is my lucky number (and also a harmonious number)… but when I went to rotate the pot this morning, I immediately set my eyes on this 5 petal flower! It feels like finding a four-leaf-clover lol. (Also I really love this plant, it’s so vibrant in the sunlight!!) ❤❤❤❤❤ #kalanchoe #kalanchoeblossfeldiana #flamingkaty #christmaskalanchoe #indoorgardening #indoorplants #red #flower #flowers #petals https://www.instagram.com/p/CZr3wrLPOHw/?utm_medium=tumblr
My vanity area is still a work in progress, but I’m really happy with how I rescued this trellis thing to become a necklace display! (My vanity mirror is opposite of this.)
My mom was going to throw this thing away, and I said nO WAY!! I was going to use it for a plant, but the plant died and the shape was awkward. So I repainted it (painstakingly… the gold leaves are like a stamp, but I had to redo it by hand), and hung it in a way that gives it a new use! I think it adds a lot of character to this area of my room. (Also, it’s not even all of my necklaces lmaooooo…)
I have another immediate plan to add a real window shelf so I can stop destroying the sill with plant pots (already bought the shelf, just need to mangle the wall next.) And I still need to clean off the vanity counter, but that’s a project for Future Cori. But the new shelf will help give me the extra table space I need, and allow me to open the window.
(Also peep the Christmas Cactuses on the hanging pots I elevated from shitty grey Dollar Tree pots by spray painting them gold!! I have gone through so many gold spray paint bottles trying to get some sense of cohesion with my room decor… thank you Rustoleum for making such a luminous shade of gold…) #roomdecor #jewelrystand #jewelryorganizer #organization #indoorgardening #indoorplants #upcycling #upcycle #recycle #decor #interiordesign #necklace #necklaces #handpainted #vanity #vanitycounter https://www.instagram.com/p/CZr2uoSP0YV/?utm_medium=tumblr
My Christmas Cactus surprised me with another flower!!!!
This was the Schlumbergera bridgesii I bought and immediately had to transplant because I didn’t have a pot big enough, and all the blooms fell off right away before they all opened. I’m so glad this one likes this spot on my windowsill, and I’m ESPECIALLY glad that it enjoys being in a pot with no holes on the bottom. I feel very validated. (I HATE when pots have to have a plastic liner pot inside them.)
I’ve had success multiple times with keeping hole-less pots, but online people always freak out when they see it happen unsuccessfully. I know my room’s temperature and air humidity well enough to know how to water these. (I actually water this Christmas Cactus like every other day! This window gets very hot, and paired with my space heater usage, it NEEDS a few drops to keep a consistent atmosphere.)
Anyway, I’m very happy to see this neon pink flower open up. The rest of my Christmas Cactus pieces all got planted into hanging planters above my vanity recently (I got sick of having too many small pots of them taking up so much space), so hopefully hy the time they grow a bit more, they’ll all drape some flowers down the sides for me.
#christmascactus #schlumbergera #schlumbergerabridgesii #flower #bloom #pink #latebloom #secondbloom #epiphyte #indoorgardening #indoorplants #indoorgarden #houseplant (Also, please ignore the corner of failed moss rehydration in the last pic… I’m actually gonna add a different moss and let that grow on this stuff instead of try to rehydrate the dried stuff.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZryip1p7FH/?utm_medium=tumblr
New orchids, adorable mini phalaenopsis, and a vERY FRAGRANT ZYGOPETALUM THAT I DIDN’T KNOW WAS GONNA BE FRAGRANT UNTIL I GOT IT (I had no idea what kind of orchid it was, I was just excited because I found a Trader Joe’s gift card in my wallet that was unused)… pLUS A VARIEGATED MINI ROSE!!!! I don’t think I’ve EVER seen a variegated rose, mini or not… even if the variegation doesn’t stay, like uh… It’s still a mini rose!! And cute as hell!!
When I was a kid I got to pick one rosebush from the nursery, so I picked a Nicole Rose which is white center with neon pink petal tips and that was the extent of colour variation I’ve seen - with just the tips a different colour. So, I’m super excited to make room for this rose indoors (I had no idea they’d actually stay mini?? According to what I saw online…)
I’m so excited tho like my room is a jungle right now, I just got my first Monstera too, and have a BOP (it’s slowly unfurling a new leaf rn!!), and 2 orchids, (nOW 4 ORCHIDS!) Plus the other big stuff I have, poinsettias, dracaenas, hibiscus. Who knew I had it in me to shake off my black thumb to keep all these plants alive and making my Room feel less like a Doom. (Well, it’s a work in progress at least… myself and my room, I mean.)
Now I just gotta keep at the organizing and cleaning my room when chronic illness and mental illness aren’t kicking my ass. #plant #plants #indoorgardening #indoorplants #epiphyte #orchid #orchids #phalaenopsis #zygopetalum #rose #roses #miniroses #indoorroses #planthaul https://www.instagram.com/p/CYu6Yl4l5Ku/?utm_medium=tumblr
I’ve never seen a variegated one before, so when I saw this in the grocery store, I had to get it. Finally just repotted it into its permanent hone - it’s a special pot designed for African Violets. There are 2 pots, the round one homds water, and the wavy one holds the flower. The wavy one is unglazed on the inside, so it will wick moisture into the soul without water ever touching the hydro-phobic plant. ((How do they ever grow in the wild if water on their leaves kills them?!?!?! I’m too scared to test it out on my first baby.))
The soil is leftover monstera mix I made, and then some good water control Miracle-gro soil. I left the root ball mostly in place - usually I tear up all the old soil, but I’m trying to be so careful with this. I always remember being told as a kid that these will die if you touch them (same with orchids - it was actually just my family trying to keep my kid-hands off the plants lol! Turns out orchids are super hardy to the touch, and these can handle a touch as well.) The leaves are sooo fuzzy!
You ever see a fern with spores this big???? ( Trypophobia warning? )
I went to cat-sit for a few days and got to appreciate my grandma’s plants. If I didn’t have a mold problem in my room at home, I’d have taken some spores to try and propagate this beast, but I’m still struggling to keep my Venus Maidenhair Fern single stem prop alive, and the rhizomes I took of my aunt’s Boston Fern haven’t grown anything…. Ferns don’t like me yet.
My grandma’s Anthurium’s anther is also making some preem trypo content here. Why is it bubbling up like that? My mom also has an Anthurium, but is keeping it locked away in our dark dining room. They’re such cool plants, like they look like a lily, but they’re epiphytic like orchids and airplants, so no wonder they’re used in fancy arrangements all the time.
Plus, here’s one of the kitties I cat-sat. He was a stinker that barfed on his mom’s computer desk the day she was coming back home. I hate that! But love the Stinker.
Fern spores don’t seem to trigger my aerophobia too much, thankfully. #ferns #fern #fernspores #spores #sporepods #plant #plants #indoorgardening #indoorplants #anthurium #epiphyte https://www.instagram.com/p/CYiJXQQLvog/?utm_medium=tumblr
Only my peachy poinsettia bloomed (apparently my variegated one had already bloomed when I got it, cuz the flowers just fell off when I touched them, back when I was pollinating the peach one)…. Anyway, January 1 was the first time I noticed that the seed pods started forming! And already just over a week later (today, January 9), they have so much definition! Gonna be exciting to see them form, and if they grow after I harvest them! It was SUCH a sticky process - the poinsettia yellow flowers (not the pink bracts) have a natural hole under them that weeps a clear sticky sap…. I thought just clearing the fallen leaves was sticky, but pollinating?? It’s like dipping my fingertips into honey and then into shredded broccoli florets. Such a mess lmao.
Once the seed pods have fully formed and I’ve harvested them, I’ll repot the poinsettias into the nice big pots I already have set up. I just LOVE how bushy and full these plants are, hopefully I can keep them this way!
They’re mini Phalaenopsis orchids, I’m pretty sure I got one from Trader Joe’s and the other from Home Depot? The first one I got immediately dropped the blooms within a week of being in my hot room lol. The other stayed blooming for a while. I’m only now realising I didn’t photograph the blooms. But they’re both a very similar white and purple-pink.
Both of my orchids stopped blooming, but one still kept a green stem and is holding onto its dried blooms! The other started growing aerial roots, so I had to repot them, and wanted to make pots that would match the colour of their blooms.
Both were horribly cramped in their original pots, so I think they will enjoy not having a cache-pot prison now. (I hate cache pots so much!) The new medium is the freshened up with sphagnum moss and orchid bark layers.
My mom’s orchid in the back is a regular Phalaenopsis orchid (she doesn’t remember the colour, but it’s a few years old) and it was in desperate need of a repot. When I went to shake out the old medium, I found out it was sitting in like 1inch of water no moss, only bark. Yuck. So I freshened her up, put her in an old crock thing with an elevated cache pot (so no more sitting in water if it gets too much), got a full leaf wipe dusting-off, and currently (almost 2 weeks later), she looks AMAZING. And has THREE new flower shoots growing off the two main shoots! I can’t wait to see what colour this one will be, I wasn’t here when my mom first bought it.
I know I haven’t been posting in a while, I’m really trying to keep myself together, but here is the newest haul. (I’ve missed posting photos from the last 2 lol.)
The Monsteras are from Trader Joe’s! I found them in great shape for $12 like?? That’s a great price, right???? It’s in soil that’s like completely loose peat moss, too, like damn they really went ALL out for these!! If I wasn’t pressed for space in my room, I probably would have gotten another! The roots were SUPER root-locked though. It was really hard to separate the two, but I think I did it without too much damage. And they look great against this part of my wall that was blank before!
The Bromeliad is from Home Depot and was like $9…. …. But I NEEDED it, and was already spending money there on other things. I brought a really cool orange flat Bromeliad to the checkout, but as I was in line I realized it was wobbly and getting crown rot so, just the one now. This red one was also starting to rot because thEY PUT THE BROMELIADS IN COMPLETE HEAVY DENSELY-PACKED SOIL…. BROMELIADS ARE EPIPHYTES LIKE ORCHIDS!!!! NO SOIL!!!! So, I cleaned mine up, and it looks like the base grew in a peat pod, so I left that because it was packed on so tightly. I don’t think it will keep rotting now that I pulled the dead stuff out. It’s currently in orchid bark and sphagnum moss, in a special orchid pot. It’s also growing some white flowers inside the red bract leaves!! Hopefully it lasts a while and gives me a baby to propagate.
These plants also had like a 3 day quarantine because I’m lazy and impatient. If I don’t plant them now, I won’t be able to sit still. Anyway, just a small update on the most recent haul. I gotta post updates on what I got last month still. #plant #plants #indoorgardening #indoorplants #monstera #bromeliad #planthaul #fenestration (I love that word lol) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYh4Of_vQyj/?utm_medium=tumblr
Ohmygod, I need to make one planter like this. Imagine when the sun, a candle or a light is shining on it and your room turns into a plant disco. That would be fun looking.
This plant will bring hours of entertainment to kids of any age. The Sensitive Plant actually moves when you touch its leaves. The fine leaflets open in the daylight, yet when touched will collapse downward. Give them an hour or so and up they’ll come again. As plants mature, they form small pink puffs of bloom adding an extra benefit to this unique species.
I figured the size of the plant could be emphasized if I sat on a kid’s chair. - FAQ - read the detailed story/care of this monstera (link in profile) - : @naomi_der_ ~ ~ #monsteradeliciosa #monsteramonday #monstera #houseplants #plantlove #foliage #indoorplants #plantlife #urbanjunglebloggers #houseplantclub #plantstyling #boyswithplants #houseplantjournal (at Richmond Hill, Ontario)
One month update on spider plant orb - babies already want out! - 2) I’m curious to see whether all emerging babies will find their way to the opening like this. - 3) healthy roots! You could transplant it to soil now but I think this will be left in water permanently ~ ~ #chlorophytumcomosum #chlorophytum #spiderplant #houseplants #plantlove #foliage #indoorplants #foliagefriday #plantstyling #houseplantjournal #plants #greenthumb
Lots of light? Yes, an unobstructed view of the sky floods this hallway with light. Lots of sun? Not really. There’s a patch of direct sun that moves across the walls/floors. The parasol helps to diffuse the direct sun so these tropical foliage plants don’t burn or wilt permanently. - Think about direct sun separate from the view of the sky and you will begin to understand the daily/seasonal variations of light. Treat them as the same thing, and you’ll be confused. ~ ~ #houseplants #plantlove #foliage #indoorplants #plantlife #urbanjunglebloggers #houseplantclub #plantstyling #houseplantjournal #plants #chasinglight (at Toronto, Ontario)
Many questions = guaranteed IG caption content (right, @jamies_jungle?) - Plant: this is Pothos ‘Marble Queen’ - Trellis: the tall black trellis on the left is from @trellisworksllc - Wall Planter Care Strategy: I got these wall planters in Hong Kong but some garden centers should have similar ones. Click the link in my profile to read my care strategy for these wall-mounted plants. - Light Source: my skylight (a window on the roof) provides ideal light for tropical foliage plants AND for photography - a natural softbox! ~ ~ #houseplants #plantlove #foliage #indoorplants #plantlife #urbanjunglebloggers #houseplantclub #plantstyling #houseplantjournal #plants #pothos #pothosmarblequeen (at Toronto, Ontario)
My little trio of samurai (the one on the left is a Boncel but he’s earned a spot with the samurai) - Plants: #sansevieriaboncel #sansevieriadwarfsamurai - Where I got them: @valleyviewgardens, planter from dollar store ~ ~ #houseplants #plantlove #foliage #indoorplants #plantlife #urbanjunglebloggers #houseplantclub #plantstyling #houseplantjournal #plants #snakeplant #sansevieria (at Toronto, Ontario)
As walked out of my bathroom, the warm glow of the morning sun (coming through the bathroom skylight) struck the usually darker side of my repurposed retort stand planter - just had to gram that! - I’d also like to introduce my new mini peace lily. Is this a new thing in Spath cultivation or has this been around for a while? ~ Plants in this photo: #spathiphyllum #peacelily #calathealancifolia #moneytree #pachiraaquatica #ctenanthe #ctenantheburlemarxii ~ ~ #houseplants #plantlove #foliage #indoorplants #plantlife #urbanjunglebloggers #houseplantclub #plantstyling #houseplantjournal #plants #foliagefriday (at Toronto, Ontario)
Marimo ball owners: have you ever noticed your ball sometimes afloat and other times not? - 1) ball is resting at the bottom right now (8:30am). 2) ball was floating last night around midnight. - What could cause this change in buoyancy? Is it metabolic activity differences between night and day? I haven’t touched or disturbed the water in the past 2 weeks and I’m certain I’ve noticed it both floating and sinking. One thing is for sure: this calls for a time lapse! ⌚ = observe-for-long-time-with-camera ~ ~ #marimomossball #marimo #mossball #algae #houseplants #aquatic #aquaticplants #plantlove #plantlife #indoorplants #houseplantclub #plantstyling #houseplantjournal #växtgäris #greenliving #greenery #observe #scientific (at Toronto, Ontario)
