what are your favourite unusual house - plants? im getting bored of seeing the same old ones in garden centres - yukkas / poinsettia / orchids. can anyone recomend something a bit differnet. especially trailing ones. natural-looking and not garish.
I had one for years and years and it grew many trailing stems - eventually I moved away for a while so gave it to my daughter ........ it's easy to care for ...... it forms little tubers on the stems and you can use these to propagate it .... it is happy in a dry atmosphere and can cope with the occasional drought. If the stems get too long you can just snip and shorten them. It's a pretty thing.
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“I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh
think i may have to treat myself to this plant, looked at pics and love the colour. thanks both for the advice. philippa smith, which way is easiest to propagate ?
I have it, and it is easy to grow. It is very vigorous, I wind it round a wire frame, and it produces lots of flowers over a long season, and is in flower now.
Hoya bella is attractive, with small, pointed, grey-green leaves and small, white, starry flowers with transparent pink centres and a sweet, but not overpowering scent. It can be trained upwards, but mine grows happily in a hanging basket by a window and near a radiator, asking little more than an occasional drink.
I got mine as a cutting from ebay; it is not always easy to find, unlike the much larger Hoya carnosa. It is steadily growing to fill its basket and you can look up to see the flowers.
thanks Buttercupdays. i have Hoya linearis which is a magnificent houseplant my fave in fact. the flowers smell like sweet lemon meringue. thanks for all of your input i wish garden centres sold more unusual and interesing house plants
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I'm fond of Ceropegia-woodii - the Hearts Entangled Vine.
It has lots of other names, Rosary Vine, Hearts Entwined are just two of them ... very drought resistant.
thanks Dovefromabove. ive not heard of that one. do you have one youself? if so what is it like to keep?
I had one for years and years and it grew many trailing stems - eventually I moved away for a while so gave it to my daughter ........ it's easy to care for ...... it forms little tubers on the stems and you can use these to propagate it .... it is happy in a dry atmosphere and can cope with the occasional drought. If the stems get too long you can just snip and shorten them. It's a pretty thing.
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How about Ceropegia sandersonii, the parachute plant? Bigger plants and bigger flowers than C. woodii.
http://www.insektenfang.com/Images/ipGallery/Misc/Ceropegia/CsandersoniiFlower2.jpg
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think i may have to treat myself to this plant, looked at pics and love the colour. thanks both for the advice. philippa smith, which way is easiest to propagate ?
i have not heard of that either Alan Clark, it looks very unsuual and quirky. have you grown it?
Pinguicula - or butterworts, I have several Mexican butterworts, otherwise called bog violets
I have it, and it is easy to grow. It is very vigorous, I wind it round a wire frame, and it produces lots of flowers over a long season, and is in flower now.
Hoya bella is attractive, with small, pointed, grey-green leaves and small, white, starry flowers with transparent pink centres and a sweet, but not overpowering scent. It can be trained upwards, but mine grows happily in a hanging basket by a window and near a radiator, asking little more than an occasional drink.
I got mine as a cutting from ebay; it is not always easy to find, unlike the much larger Hoya carnosa. It is steadily growing to fill its basket and you can look up to see the flowers.
thanks Buttercupdays. i have Hoya linearis which is a magnificent houseplant my fave in fact. the flowers smell like sweet lemon meringue. thanks for all of your input i wish garden centres sold more unusual and interesing house plants