Do you decorate your home with indoor plants?

**homesteadmamma** · 01-12-2006, 09:33 AM

Yes, although I wish I had more. We have no place to purchase indoor plants so unless I'm in Winnipeg, they are very hard to find.

**QuilterMom** · 01-12-2006, 09:33 AM

No, between 3 indoor dogs and ds1 they'd never have a chance.

**alabamagirl** · 01-12-2006, 09:42 AM

No, darned cats better be glad they are so cute.

I did see a magazine article recently about putting indoor window boxes of trailing ivy up above doorways. That might would work for me if I tried it.

**mizniteowl** · 01-12-2006, 10:06 AM

I'd like to get some ivy for my kitchen. Right now I have nothing.

**mom2matty** · 01-12-2006, 10:43 AM

LOL..........I have 1! My Mom gave it to me, she named it Blanche

No clue why but she lives with me now and if I knew how to post a pic I would share her with you!! Let me just say I am having to work very hard to keep her happy and alive, my Mom would kill me if I let Blanche die!!

**Dedlered** · 01-12-2006, 10:57 AM

Yes and quite a few. 2 Ficus trees, a christmas cactus, a mini ficus, aloe, a big basket of ivey, philadendreon, pothos and peace lily

**amysh** · 01-12-2006, 01:20 PM

Yes! Lots! I try to use them decoratively, not just have a bunch of plants on a shelf in the window...but, I have a green house window in the kitchen that just seems to breed plants. They appear out of nowhere. (Or sometimes I just splurge...like this week when Fred Meyer has 3" plants for $1 each.) Fortunately, or unfortunately, they grow like weeks and while they start out in 3" pots, sooner or later they end up in 10" pots, and they're a lot harder to keep!

A partial list:

A variegated ficus (in an 18" pot...bought it for $6 (a huge price for me to pay for a plant, but it's now 7' tall & gorgeous!)
3 variegated dracaenas in a pot
flowering begonias (pink & white - taken from cuttings at a park over the summer)
sanseveria
spider plant
spathiphyllum (free w/coupon!)
bay tree (free w/coupon!)
schefflera (free from ob/gyn!)
rabbit's foot fern
two Christmas cactuses
jade plant (in 12" pot, originally from a cutting)
variegated ivy
creeping fig (variegated ficus)
croton (made not last long - it looks okay, but not great, so it may get disposed of for new plants!)
coffee plant (originally grown in a large coffee cup...now in a 10" pot!)
variegated bougainvillea (also not doing great, but I still love it)
a few random succulents & other miscellaneous
rubber plant (another ficus!)

Amy

**Emerald_Mommy** · 01-12-2006, 01:28 PM

Nope. I have a black thumb. I do have some dried flower arrangements

**Michelle** · 01-12-2006, 01:57 PM

Yes, we have a ton.

**momof42003** · 01-12-2006, 03:05 PM

Right now I have six in the living room. I also have cuttings that are in the diningroom window.. I usually have more, but for some reason they have been dying off one at a time.. It doen't help when the kids knock over the table they are sitting on... Any how, I will more than likely get a few more from DH grandmother soon..She is always giving me cuttings.