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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