Plant Tour - Part 1

This post has been a long-time coming... I can't tell you how many plant questions I get every week but it's A LOT! Today I'm going to share the plants I have in various rooms, give you details on watering and let you know what kind of sun they get.

My love of indoor plants started back in 2017 with this sweet fern that struck my fancy at a boutique downtown McKinney. It was quirky and feathery and I bought it on a total whim. I managed to keep it alive and then just kept adding plants from there.

This big fiddle leaf has been with me since we moved into this house 9 years ago....

... but it like that photo on the far left and then eventually the far right until I moved it and it pretty much died.

... so back in 2021 I chopped it...

... and this is it now! A couple of points...

- The towel is because Jelly Bean likes to dig in this giant pot

- I fully credit Happy. Happy Houseplant Plant Food with it's revival.

- It's almost touching the ceiling fan at this point, but a few branches are popping out there closer to the bottom so I think I MAY need to chop it again (maybe about 2 feet off) and then just cross my fingers it branches and stops growing straight up.

I grabbed this plant maybe last year at Lowes. It's grown a TON and like every other plant at my house seems to really like this front room.

On the bookcase I have a pothos that's growing a bit out of control and I really need to take that long vine and redirect it back into the pot. What I mean is that if I take I like to take the long vines and use bobby pins to "pin" them back into the dirt in the pot to create a fuller plant. You want to pin them at an air root or a node.

I also have a Christmas cactus, more than likely that's from Trader Joe's.

It flowers once a year - and it's obviously loving life right now because you can see that the light green is all new growth.

I have a "money plant" on the top shelf that is also thriving at the moment and on the bottom shelf there's a clipping of that same plant that I have growing in a jar of water inside that anthro pot. A section of the larger plant broke off and so I cut it clean and then just put it in water to grow roots.

These are the roots growing in water (before I changed it)... and I haven't decided whether I'll plant this one in it's own pot or just add this one to my larger plant.

These two little cuties are just random Trade Joes finds.... I don't really know what they are but again, they love this room and this light.

Sometimes TJ's will have "assorted plants" for like $6 but there's not a lot of info on them. I'm willing to risk it for $6-8 and have only been disappointed a couple of times.

Ignore all my outdoor ferns on the tarp int he background... it was below freezing her for like 3+ days in a row so this was the easiest and most effective way to keep them all alive ;)

This is another version of a pothos on the side table...

.. and when I referenced "air roots" before this is what I was talking about. As I was taking pictures for this post I noticed that a few of these vines were getting kind of long and I really like the fuller look of this pothos so I just trimmed it underneath a node and check out those "air roots" (the brown things coming out). I could have just stuck those back into the dirt and they would have taken root but because this plant is already so full i decided to stick them in water and get roots growing that way and then turn them into another plant.

This fiddle leaf in the entry way is also loving life...

and has a towel in it as well because this is Jelly's one bad habit and I haven't had time to go pick up some black burlap to put in here to cover it up.

Okay - I was going to share more but feel like this has already been a lot so I'll save the other rooms and plants for next week and probably the week after. hahaha

If you have any plant-specific questions you'd like answered drop them in the comments and I'll make sure to cover them!

HAPPY Tuesday, friends!