Outside plants come indoors

Cheers to Debby H for letting us know that she’s now brought in most of the tender plants from her garden what with the weather starting to get a lot colder now. In the above picture, on the left are all of the tender plants from outside and on the right, a view of the rack with house plants on it. As Debby said “Most people use stools to eat at their breakfast bar. We have given our stools over to the larger plants!” Brilliant!
The outside plants in more detail, nearest to the camera the canna lilly, an orange tree, two lemon trees and the two strelitzias furthest away.

Above are the two strelitzias, which she said are not that overly keen on direct sunlight when outdoors, “Strangely they like being outside, but they don’t like full sun. We have to keep them in the shade or the leaves go brown and crispy.” The actual plants were grown from seed as well and we do love the moveable circular platforms that the pots are standing on. It’s a great idea for moving plants around to follow the sun. Our mate in Berlin, Phil Harmony uses the same method with all his plants on a platform so he can wheel them about his patio.

(Above) “This shows the orchid and cactus with the plant rack behind them. Again, the orchid must be kept out of full sunshine.”
“It’s a bit cramped but we have managed to squeeze everything in.” she noted. We think the plants will thank you with lots of growth and flowers next year for keeping them in the warmth Debby, they will! Great stuff and thanks for sending us the pictures!

The great indoors

Thanks to Debby H for sending us pictures of her collection of indoor plants. Because until recently, she didn’t have a garden; she has an abundance of them. As we here at Weeds are not very good with houseplants, we love to see other people’s. The flowering cactus (above) looks great.

Now the picture above is brilliant, the Orchid is blooming and there’s a healthy looking Pineapple. We didn’t even know you could grow them here, even indoors! More on growing Pineapples here.

Debby wrote “I grew the Strelitzias AKA Bird of Paradise plants (above) from seed about 5 years ago. We are hoping they may flower sometime.” Wow and when they flower…

“I also grew the Canna (below) from a tiny plant. Last year it flowered continuously with beautiful bright red flowers. The Canna lives outdoors in the summer. We put the Strelitzias out too, but they hated it and wilted every day there was any sun! Strange because they generally live outdoors in warmer climates.” Brilliant stuff Debby, thanks a lot for that and do send us some picture updates and also when the strelitzias flower as that’ll be great.