Do you have houseplants? Please tell me what types or share pictures!
I started off with a horrible brown thumb, moved on to succulents (green ones), and eventually started bringing home things that were interesting:
currently, I have a parent and baby spider plants, a pitcher plant, and "Robert" (first photo), then upstairs, I have a snake plant, fern, lemon basil, amaryllis (blooms every year!), a christmas cactus that blooms nearly year round, "Spike" (third photo", and the phallic cactus which started out like the 4th photo, but grew like a berserk thing when the red graft died (2nd picture).
What kind of plant is Robert? How old is he? Love him!!
@Carin I threw the tag away and did not recall the name. My young son suggested we just call it "Robert". R was an impulse buy at my local rural grocery. We've had him between five and ten years. Just light watering and regular "hair trims" to keep him from getting lanky.
In seeking an identity on the net, I finally came up with it: Rhipsalis - mistletoe cactus.
When I became a mother, I chose to nurture Claire, not 26 houseplants. Now I have three succulents.
My Christmas Cactus is huge. At age 17, I started it from two cuttings in Michigan. A "Thanksgiving type" Christmas cactus, it blooms from November to April.
This Christmas Cactus is my longest relationship.
When she was little, Claire and I laid on our backs under the blooming Christmas Cactus, looking up at the flowers.
A year ago, I rooted cuttings from my giant Christmas cactus. Potted up new plants for Claire and a friend.
I don't have any. My cats would think they had a salad bar available to them.
I had houseplants, but my cat ate them down to the stems. I'm just glad I didn't get anything harmful.
@OuzelWoman Yes, very true. I had a cat the learned the hard way not to eat a poinsettia. He recovered but he had a rough ride.
I can mostly just grow cacti, but also splurged & bought a dracena palm that was too tall for them to reach the foliage at the top. & I have a hanging plant.
@Carin I don't trust my kitties around anything that they think they can chew on. They are too smart for their own good.
Your first and last photo are similar to two of the six I have currently living in the insulated breezeway. (room between garage and formal dining room) The breezeway has sliding glass doors to the outside on one side and and two large windows on the other. Aside from two windows in the house, I really don't have southern exposer windows as the double garage occupies most of the south of the structure. When the previous owners designed the house the built large stone and concrete planters into the stonework of the larger fireplace in the main level living room and a massive stone planter in the foyer. Despite six massive (nearly floor to sealing) windows in a bow array in the living room and a large array or windows in the formal dining room, any plant placed in these planters would soon die as they never got enough light. Your plants look better then mine.