Indoor Gardening Geeking
Categories: Gardening, Photography, UncategorizedI have a lot of plants, many of them trees of various sizes (including the big, 6 foot Norfolk Pine my mother rescued from my piano teacher when it was a wee tree 20+ years ago). When I lived in the partially submerged condo, indoor gardening was a challenge. I used painter’s lamps with grow bulbs to keep my plants happy. Now that we have a fabulous sun porch, I have tried not to go too wild with plants. Really. Well, at least until this year’s flower show when I came home with a bunch of small trees and plants. (As always, you can click on the thumbnails of the photos below to get the bigger versions.)
Last month one of my plants did something I didn’t know it could do: it blossomed! darwins_fox turned me on to the awesome purple passion vine and gave me a cutting from her plant way back when. The vine was a little more finicky than my plants at the time, so it didn’t survive. A couple years ago when Sarah and Don came down to Philly, I bought a new little purple passion vine in a 3″ pot. Like almost everything living on my porch, it has flourished and grown and is now living in a much bigger pot and is quite a plant. (And I learned through trial and error that this plant really likes good drainage for its pot.) And then… there were flowers. They’re bizarre little flowers – just a tuft of yellow on a long bud until it goes to seed in a big puff of white wispies. Very cool.
In other indoor gardening news and in the category statements that sound like euphemisms but really aren’t:
My pomegranate tree has a large fruit. (It’s really a dwarf pomegranate tree.)
My kumquat is in bloom.
Oh and both my crown of thrones plants are still flowering. The older one has been flowering non-stop for 3.5 years.
As always, I have potting and repotting to do. It’s time to start saturating the plants with water more often than usual so that they’re less picky about watering while we’re at Pennsic. I need to pick up more seed for kitty grass too.