Houseplant Census

So, they want the tally of the plants that I'm keeping alive indoors.

• There is the oldest plant, an Angelwing Begonia - it came with us from Kansas 20+ years ago

• 2 Aloes that live summer outdoors

• Rosemary and Thyme, that live outdoors in the summer

• Asparagus fern - the second oldest plant (I believe) which was rescued from SILs house

• Orange tree (3rd oldest and still no blooms or oranges)

• Violet

• Money plant (newest plant - gift from Karen)

• Abutilon hybridum (flowering maple - in flower right now)

• 2 separate Spider Plants

• 2 separate Peace Lillies

• 2 separate Bamboos (from different people)

• 2 different colors of geraniums (overwintering)

• Curry plant (one day I'll plant it in the garden)

• A window box with another Spider Plant, a Jade Plant and some kind of viney thing

• Some sort of fern

• Another viney thing

• And a succulant that looks like a striped aloe, only different

• 2 different Amaryllis - one I am getting set to let go dorman, the other hasn't bloomed yet.

• 2 Onions that started growing in the cabinet and I decided to plant in pot and transfer outside once it is warmer.

So, if I count the window box as 1, then I have 27 plants in the house.

Link to the census found via May Dreams Gardens. Also found a little later at Cold Climate Gardening.

Comments

[Mr. McGregor's Daughter]

Thanks for participating! I'm always impressed when anybody can keep a houseplant alive, and having a 20 year + old plant is quite an achievement.

[bogie]

We have 2 plants over 20 years old - we've had the begonia since about 1985 and the asparagus fern was given rescued while we lived in Bennington; 23 years ago. Actually, I got the orange plant then too - so that makes 3 plants over 20 years old.

[Cop Car]

Bogie--I have descendents of plants that were given me in 1974 or 1975, but my oldest plants are probably no more than 10-15 years old. (I am nursing the last of the descendents of plants given to me in 1983, in CA, and hoping to re-establish that line of variagated spider plant.) You take after both of your grandmothers in having a green thumb. More power to you!