Office plants
I've been in an office (as in a room with a door) for about two years now. It occurred to me recently that I really should get an office plant. The reasoning is similar to why I started growing houseplants in the first place: the oxygen can only do you good. I've got a window and the office features an area blocked off by a column that would be good for a large plant, or a small plant on some sort of stand/box.
Couldn't think of a plant at home I wanted to bring in (the ivy I got from someone in an office four years ago, but it wasn't doing well and I let it try its chances in the wild - it didn't make it). So I'll be getting a spider plant cutting from a coworker. I promised her some aloe babies, and will also apparently be offering her some snake plant cuttings.
I wasn't planning on bringing in the snake plant, but I'd decided I really needed to repot it. The existing pot had some alarming looking cracks (one lets a snake plant grow until it's about ready to break the pot, then one repots it). I am tired of some of the droopy leaves from when my mother divided it, and it seemed like a waste to compost the leaves. Apparently they're supposed to be easy to grow from cuttings. We'll see. I probably shouldn't be throwing out *any* of the leaves; apparently one just cuts them in pieces and goes.
In the meantime, my front yard has 3 aloes and two snake plants in pots. The spouse is liable to take one look and determine I've lost my mind.
Couldn't think of a plant at home I wanted to bring in (the ivy I got from someone in an office four years ago, but it wasn't doing well and I let it try its chances in the wild - it didn't make it). So I'll be getting a spider plant cutting from a coworker. I promised her some aloe babies, and will also apparently be offering her some snake plant cuttings.
I wasn't planning on bringing in the snake plant, but I'd decided I really needed to repot it. The existing pot had some alarming looking cracks (one lets a snake plant grow until it's about ready to break the pot, then one repots it). I am tired of some of the droopy leaves from when my mother divided it, and it seemed like a waste to compost the leaves. Apparently they're supposed to be easy to grow from cuttings. We'll see. I probably shouldn't be throwing out *any* of the leaves; apparently one just cuts them in pieces and goes.
In the meantime, my front yard has 3 aloes and two snake plants in pots. The spouse is liable to take one look and determine I've lost my mind.