Any planty people here?

So one of my favorite hobbies (besides reptiles) is house plants! I've loved them for years but only really got into it a few months ago, and I got REALLY into it haha. I think I've got around 30 plants right now, give or take a few, which I guess isn't too many compared to a lot of other people in the hobby, but I really do love all the plants in my collection. I currently only have a pretty small space that's all my own and not a common space, and it's FILLED with plants, and that combined with my snake really makes it feel like a jungle and it just makes me happy haha.
Anyway, I'm just posting this here out of curiosity to see if there are any other planty people here, maybe we could geek out about plants together ;)

In our house, my wife is very much into the house plants. We have a little study type room that she has full of plants. She refers to it as her "zen" room. She definitively was born with a green thumb. If I were to bet on the one person that will chime in on this subject, it will be Richard. He has posted some great pics of plants and flowers that he has. I thought I read in a past thread that his job is (plant related). Sorry Richard if I was incorrect

i want so badly to be a "planty" person. none of my veggie gardens have worked out the last few years. tried REALLY hard this year and it seems to be a fail.
i did get my first few houseplants about a month ago and i LOVE them. they make me happy just looking at them and they're all still alive so far. i have to be careful though b/c a lot are toxic to cats apparently....

Last year was my first year getting into plants and flowers. I haven't brought any inside though. I absolutely love how much better my yard looks with flowers around it. This year I added a flower bed on the other side of the house too. I've been slacking and have only picked out a few hanging flowers so far. This weekend I'll be picking out the rest of my annuals. My parenials are just starting to flower over the last week.
I'm actually really enjoying it, despite always thinking it was "girly" growing up. Shows what younger me knew, hahahaha.

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Originally Posted by SilentHill

i want so badly to be a "planty" person. none of my veggie gardens have worked out the last few years. tried REALLY hard this year and it seems to be a fail.
i did get my first few houseplants about a month ago and i LOVE them. they make me happy just looking at them and they're all still alive so far. i have to be careful though b/c a lot are toxic to cats apparently....

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I've never had any luck with outdoor plants, I feel your pain lol. I'm so thankful my cats have no interest in my plants. I've heard that lillies are some of the most toxic, that's probably wrong and I'm not sure where I even heard it from, but I stay away from them just in case haha

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Originally Posted by Craiga 01453

Last year was my first year getting into plants and flowers. I haven't brought any inside though. I absolutely love how much better my yard looks with flowers around it. This year I added a flower bed on the other side of the house too. I've been slacking and have only picked out a few hanging flowers so far. This weekend I'll be picking out the rest of my annuals. My parenials are just starting to flower over the last week.
I'm actually really enjoying it, despite always thinking it was "girly" growing up. Shows what younger me knew, hahahaha.

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Good for you!! I wish I was any good with outdoor plants, but I've just never been able to get it right :rolleyes: If you've never tried having house plants I'd really recommend it, really easy to get addicted though.. kinda like snakes but cheaper haha

I'm mostly into my yard plants these days...I grow tomatoes (LOTS of them) & especially enjoy all that blooms & keeps the bees happy here; I'm pretty busy so I
especially appreciate all the flowers that reappear on their own every year...daffodils, flowering redbud trees, azaleas, irises, mimosa tree, daylillies, crepe myrtles,
purple vincas, holly & other shrubs with red berries, and all the other stuff out here...walking thru my yard (especially the back yard) it's my own private park, with
many huge shade trees too. It just makes me feel good to be out there. As common as many of my flowers are, like the 8 large groupings of orange daylillies
blooming right now (both front & back), they really brighten the day with tropical color...I can't help but be in a better mood when I stroll the path among them.
I'm a "recycler"/rescuer type, so it pleases me that most of my irises & daylillies were thinned & unwanted where they were previously, & "free to any home". :sunny:
They've repaid me handsomely for taking them in.

I'm into my plants and actually been doing horticulture in the uk both landscaping and garden centres since leaving school 30yrs ago, I love them and I used to have to go to Holland buying houseplants every 3 weeks wich was a lot of fun and Italy in the spring buying specimen shrubs for 3 days a time
Worse luck the owner sold the land to a developer to build houses on[emoji22]

I still buy houseplants for my centre I'm at now and get to make some great displays with them, but I gues alot of our houseplants in the uk are actually your outdoor plants in the states depending on where you live

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I have grown carnivorous plants for over two decades. Back when I lived in Atlanta I had a collection of over 500 species/forms. Now I mostly grow just Sarracenia in a bog garden that has a few Drosera scattered about as "weeds"

I dinker around with other things. I always enjoyed "grocery store" planting, in the past I have grown pineapples, avocado, mango, oranges, sugarcane... I am trying mamey and jackfruit now

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Originally Posted by asplundii

I have grown carnivorous plants for over two decades. Back when I lived in Atlanta I had a collection of over 500 species/forms. Now I mostly grow just Sarracenia in a bog garden that has a few Drosera scattered about as "weeds"

I dinker around with other things. I always enjoyed "grocery store" planting, in the past I have grown pineapples, avocado, mango, oranges, sugarcane... I am trying mamey and jackfruit now

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Wow that's awesome! I've never tried owning any carnivorous plants before but I've admired them from afar since I was a kid, always been a little too scared of killing them to actually buy one, though, haha

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Originally Posted by richardhind1972

I'm into my plants and actually been doing horticulture in the uk both landscaping and garden centres since leaving school 30yrs ago, I love them and I used to have to go to Holland buying houseplants every 3 weeks wich was a lot of fun and Italy in the spring buying specimen shrubs for 3 days a time
Worse luck the owner sold the land to a developer to build houses on[emoji22]

I still buy houseplants for my centre I'm at now and get to make some great displays with them, but I gues alot of our houseplants in the uk are actually your outdoor plants in the states depending on where you live

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It's so crazy to me that there are places in the US where some of my houseplants grow outdoors, the northeast is great but thinking about living somewhere tropical keeps me going haha. That sounds like such a fun job, you really hit the jackpot!

I like plants a lot, though it's very casual right now and not really a hobby. I only have about 20, but it's not nearly enough - I plan to move out of state next spring so I'm going to wait until after that to get more, rather than worry about a lot of plants in a big move. (I'll be worried enough about losing my aloe; it's been with me for several years and I'm very attached.)

I have pretty standard houseplants - succulents, dracaena, pothos - and also grow a couple things on my balcony. Mostly jalapeño peppers, herbs like cilantro and rosemary and mint, catnip... when I'm not living in an apartment, I'd like to have a proper small garden with a couple vegetables.

Do house plant in bio-active vivariums count lol?

I do not have a green thumb I would love to have plant but I touch them and they die literally, plant are my weakness but the ones I have in my bioactive setup which are the easiest plant to keep (pothos) do very well, than again they have a grow light and misting system.

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Originally Posted by Werewolves

I like plants a lot, though it's very casual right now and not really a hobby. I only have about 20, but it's not nearly enough - I plan to move out of state next spring so I'm going to wait until after that to get more, rather than worry about a lot of plants in a big move. (I'll be worried enough about losing my aloe; it's been with me for several years and I'm very attached.)

I have pretty standard houseplants - succulents, dracaena, pothos - and also grow a couple things on my balcony. Mostly jalapeño peppers, herbs like cilantro and rosemary and mint, catnip... when I'm not living in an apartment, I'd like to have a proper small garden with a couple vegetables.

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We had an aloe plant when I was growing up. Such a cool plant, and very handy when there are two boys growing up in the house. That aloe plant healed a lot of ouchies!