My mom was a plant lover! Outdoors of course, she loved to be outside.

Well I loved to work out with her but with small children it's impossible.

But I also love inside plants. However, I haven't had any for a long time. We had a cat that loved them more than I loved them, lol!

Anyways, a couple of weeks ago I was at the grocery store and they had buy one get one free, so I got two for $3.00. I forgot how much I love indoor plants. They are doing rather well for only a month, I need new pots already.

Such a simple thing seems to relieve my stress, lol!

Do you have any plants?

By Colette on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 12:24 pm:

TONS!!

By Brandy on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 01:13 pm:

None at all

By Kittycat_26 on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 01:26 pm:

I have two african violets and that's it. Everything else has been attacked by Timmy and didn't survive.

By Trina~moderator on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 02:09 pm:

We have 3 cats who've ruined any plants we've had. Nope, no indoor plants for us! Not even silk or dried, unless out of feline reach, because the cats will munch them. LOL!

By Melanie on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 02:19 pm:

We have fake plants. LOL. I wish I could blame it on cats, but we don't have any. It's all me. I kill them. Every time. LOL.

By Colette on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 02:33 pm:

Melanie, you had a beautiful veg. garden last year (or was it the year before), I remember seeing the pics.

By Melanie on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 02:37 pm:

Colette, yes we did, until the raccoons destroyed it. LOL. But those plants had an advantage over the indoor plants. They were on an automatic watering system. My interaction with them was limited.

By Trisa on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 02:43 pm:

I have 1 large plant in my bathroom
that my hubby gave me as a gift over
the summer.

By Bellajoe on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 02:54 pm:

I have one plant that we kept after my dh's grandmother's funeral. Someone sent it to the funeral home. I have never done well with indoor plants, they always die on me. But this one is still alive after a year and a half! I have no idea what it is. Actually it is a bunch of plants all in one pot. I barely ever water it. It's a miracle it hasn't died yet.

By Colette on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 03:02 pm:

To bad about the raccoons because it was a very pretty garden.

By Gammiejoan on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 09:22 pm:

I have four live plants, three in the living room and one in the master bedroom. The one in the bedroom is a peace lily. Two of the ones in the living room are vines of some kind, and I'm not sure what the other one is called. It looks something like a corn plant. I have had all of them except the peace lily for nine or ten years, and I've had the peace lily for four years. I guess you could say that they are all doing surprisingly well considering that I can be rather neglectful of them at times.

By Dawnk777 on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 09:25 pm:

I have a piece lily in the living room. It is from my FIL's funeral. It is still alive, believe it or not! I'm rather amazed. I don't take that very good care of it! I should really water it before it's all drooping over the sides of the pot. So, I have had it almost six months already. Before that I had managed to kill my indoor plants. I used to have lots, but when I had kids, it just seemed like I didn't have time for indoor plants.

By Luvn29 on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 - 10:12 pm:

My kids and I have a marigold! LOL! Yep!

We got a seed kit when they went on clearance this past fall and planted seeds in two tiny little plastic pots the size of a dixie cup. They outgrew them and we planted them all together in a bigger one and now it is about to outgrow that and we need to repot them.

They are at least a foot tall and just bloomed the first flower two days ago. A pretty little yellow one, and there are two more small buds just now budding! The kids are sooo excited.

I never imagined they would live through the winter, but it has been a lot of fun having a little piece of summer in the house all winter. After all, marigolds are not the type of plant you think of when you think of houseplants!!!

By Dawnk777 on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 12:19 am:

Oh how neat to have a marigold! I would love to be able to see a flower! We grew big marigolds in our garden last year. They turn into a bush!

By Bea on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 12:32 am:

I love having plants inside. They clean the air and bring a little springtime to these cold gray winter days. I have some in just about every room.

By Pamt on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 05:15 am:

One plant. It was a thank-you gift from my oldest son's 1st grade teacher for an event I helped organize. She died of breast cancer the following year (in her late 40s ), so it is a very special memory plant to my son and I. She was an awesome teacher! I normally kill plants, so it is a miracle that I have been able to keep it alive. I just wait until the leaves droop and then water it. I've now had it for 3 years this month. We can't keep other houseplants anyway because my oldest DS is allergic to mold and plants are a major mold-breeder per our allergist.

By Fraggle on Wednesday, February 4, 2004 - 09:16 am:

I have one Christmas Cactus that is pretty old-and still lives on despite the fact that I always forget to water it. I used to have lots of plants but the house we are in now really does not get great sun and I kind of neglected them all when my oldest was born. I did just buy an ivy for our bathroom and I have a few plants that we had actually bought for gifts but since I was sick for Christmas and missed the family party-we still have them here.

By Yjja123 on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 10:36 am:

I have ivy that has grown in an arch over my kitchen entrance (it is an archway). I have plants in my livingroom, bedroom, bathroom and on the porch. We have 4 cats and they have never touched the plants? I guess we are lucky. I love plants but stick with Pothos, Ivy and small palms (everything else I have managed to kill)

By Mommyathome on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 10:51 am:

We have 3 large plants. They are all about 5 years old. They were sent to either my mom or dads funeral by friends/co-workers etc. I was just thinking that they are getting kind of big and was wondering if I wanted to get rid of them, or keep them. It's hard to decide when they hold sentimental value!!
We also have 2 smaller plants, from the same occassion that are really beautiful and I'm really liking them.
That's about it! I don't seem to have a problem keeping them alive. I just water them when they start to look a little droopy.

By Kate on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 11:19 am:

Melanie, do you still have those veggie garden photos? I'd love to see. We planted our first one last summer and it was such a success we are going all out this year!

By Bea on Thursday, February 5, 2004 - 02:37 pm:

Way back, when I was still working, the plant people came into our office to MANAGE the plants we leased from them. Several were the worse for wear.....ragged leaves, etc. She had them sitting on a trash bag, and was pulling them down the hall. I asked her where they were going, and she said the dumpster. I asked if I could take them home, and she gladly skipped the long pull to the dumpster. I drove in a car pool, and my riders had to share seat space with four huge corn plants that afternoon. Those plants are now on my sunporch and reach the ceiling. I can’t bear to see plants simply thrown away.