rare houseplants

Easy (slightly harder to find) Housplants

September 19, 2018Christine Kelso, MD, MPH

For people looking to expand their collection but not ready to commit to high maintenance plants, here are some great options!

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Some of you saw I repotted my pendant anthurium and brought it inside over the weekend. My new grow lights make me more confident with this move 💪. This anthurium is special to me. I brought it back from Hawai’i in early 2019 after finding it

You don’t have to have a lot of space to have a plant collection 😄. I’ve been expanding my small pot collection for an upcoming project. All artists tagged. Swipe 👉🏼 for close-ups 🎥. Some of you saw I found 3 of these pots @threadspun

You never know what’s lurking under your leaves 😏. The first clue to a problem with this Monstera adansonii is the leaf discoloration seen best in 👉🏼photo 2. Easy to hide in a photo and in real life! Double swipe 👉🏼👉🏼 to see the double w

After 👉🏼 before 👉🏼 current. Compromised on the bottom shelf for some toys 🤷🏼&zwj;♀️. I must say I’m glad I reclaimed these shelves! If you missed it I showed in last Sunday’s post where the grow lights are hiding. Happy Sunday all.

Good morning everyone, I hope you're all doing okay. Here's some of what I have propagating right now, left to right: Hoya longifolia, Peperomia hope, Philodendron micans, and Hoya carnosa. I could pot some of them up this weekend I suppose. What are

This is the last of Molly, my Philo Pink Princess. Since I got it back on Feb 3, 2018 I've given away and raffled off most of the plant. I know the date because it was my birthday. Double swipe 👉🏼👉🏼 to see when I got it @rollinggreens. She was hu

Swipe 👉🏼 to see the growth on my variegated SOP since Feb. It's been hanging outside not getting very much attention. I brought it in so I can admire it a bit more. It's right by a west window and has a grow light on the opposite side. Hopefully it

Here's a bit more on the grow lights I installed on these shelves (several after the first photo was taken). Swipe 👉🏼 to see them on and double swipe 👉🏼👉🏼for a video tour 🎥. I'm not a grow light expert (if you’re looking for one, @leslie

Welcome to my jungle! 🐆It’s been so long since I did a little intro, but there’s some new peeps around here. And I rarely show my face in my feed, but since @sunnyhairdays did my hair I had a good excuse 😝. So hey 👋 I’m Christine

Happy #ficusfriday! Meet my new variegated Ficus triangularis, hanging out in my new @lbe.design Round 2 size 8 in Olive 😍 (thank you Veronica and Jon!). Swipe 👉🏼 for close-up 🎥. Funny how my recent plant purchases have all been in the Ficus genu

Love that terra cotta glow ✨. I did some plant shuffling when I redid the shelves and my Peperomia hope ended up here. All of these will get a little extra boost from one of my new shelf grow lights. More on those soon! Curious how many of you use gr

***GIVEAWAY***
I am soooo excited to team up with Phoebe @bitterrootandbrass on a giveaway! Winner gets this little Philo Pink Princess rooted cutting along with a pair of Phoebe’s handmade Pink Princess earrings! Swipe 👉🏼 for close-ups and

Can you spot the fertilizer? Hint, don’t look for a big plastic bottle. Swipe 👉🏼 for a close-up of @plant_vitamins Thrive. It’s a concentrated fertilizer in beautiful glass packaging. I’ve been using it for a few months, mixing a

Time for another RAFFLE! Swipe 👉🏼 for a couple of close-ups 🎥 of this rooted Philo pink princess cutting. Winner also receives a copy of Houseplants for All by @danaerolynhorst of @foliacollective. How to enter: donate to the Black Girls With Gard

When plants first meet 🥰. Do you think they talk to each other? Some of you saw I potted up my Hoya obscura over the weekend. It’s been outside in the same moss basket since I got it @andysorchids over a year ago. The roots were really stuck t