Houseplant Tour 2022

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Today I’m doing my annual house plant tour so I’m going to show you some of the areas in my house with my house plants. My house plants are always surrounding me. I actually had my aunt visit a few months ago and she hadn’t been here and it had been many, many years actually. And she was, before she came to visit, she didn’t have any houseplants but she really enjoyed sitting amongst all my house plants and it thrilled her so much that she started started buying houseplants and I think now she’s up to about 15 or 20 and so this was only like three or four months ago that she was here. So it can be contagious.

Now here what you see is something that’s really special to me. My mother passed away a year, a little over a year ago, just a few days ago was the anniversary of her passing. And she had really nice taste, very elegant taste and I, the desk was hers and some of the items were hers, were hers and some of them were mine and the plants are mine and and it was just really exciting when I put things together in here how seamlessly it all went together and it’s always reminds me of her when I’m in this room in particular and in other areas of the house as well.

So you can see how nicely the plants do look here. My mother’s favorite colors were purple first and then pink, so we have a pink African violet there next to the gorgeous lamp that she actually made the lampshade. She was very creative as well and to the right of that you’ll see my my pink, my variegated pink Chinese evergreen. I love that plant, they’re so easy to grow. I do have various videos on growing all of these plants and I’ll put links below.

The um that fan in the middle there was actually given to me my by my daughter so it just fits in really nicely and when I use the desk I move it but or I use it when I’m hot. The um over there to the left a little bit you will see um or an orchid. Now this is a looks like a moth orchid with this with the smaller leaves but act with the smaller uh blooms buds but it’s actually there are nowadays uh in recent years they’ve done a lot of hybridizing with moth orchids with other types of orchids to make hybridized orchids bases basically so hybridized moth orchids. So this is a hybridized moth organ not a actual um real you know true true form moth orchid so phalaenopsis is is the botanical name and I do have a series on orchids that I’ve I am just recently started so I’ll be doing a lot more on them in the coming months.

And over to the very left there you will see that there um that is a calathea and it’s a more rare calathea. It’s purple just like my mother loved and it’s um it’s really, it’s a real pretty one very deep uh burgundy purple color with the green trim. So you can if you find some calatheas out there that that look different then definitely get them because they aren’t always easy to find. So that one’s pretty and it’s in a nice container actually that that a friend gave me. She was cleaning out closets and things and I think that is also an antique. It’s like an antique pitcher which did have a lid but I use it for plants now.

So you can see that this is a really pretty vignette basically place to enjoy the plants and um and good memories of um also at the same time of my mother and a really nice tribute to her as well. So that is the first area we’re going to take a look at.

Here we are in another area of the same room, my what I call my mother’s room, my room. It’s a it’s a office study room. The uh you can see here very clearly here to uh makes a big statement there uh is that moth orchid there the really pretty fuchsia colored moth orchid, a lovely lovely moth orchid. They, one of the things I really love about the moth orchids is they they do make such a statement. They’re very architectural the way they, the way they um they have their sprays of flowers that lean like that and they are all with the colors are always so vibrant that it’s it’s really um they really light up a room. They’re really nice in this room which it has a lot of purples in it.

See to the right of that my book that’s actually on that’s my book um Indoor Gardening the Organic Way and I do sell autographed copies of the of that book on on my website. I’ll put a link below. The it tells you all about growing and it besides organically just I talk all organic but it does give you really good basics of growing indoors house plants.

Okay so over to there a little bit to the right there too you will see another really pretty African violet and that’s on this cool um [Music] stand I guess you could would call it that has uh it’s at three different levels. So on the bottom levels because they’re a little bit small for for growing most plants I have some little ducks there and and some blue uh marble crystals that look kind of like a little pond and on the bottom a little bit more of that sort of thing too. So you can do that sort of thing. I really like to create vignettes, create scenes so so just so more than just the plants themselves but also accessories to go along with them that match and have the same sort of color tones and the same sort of look and stuff.

To the right of that you’ll see there’s a vase with water and it’s a purple vase and it has a good luck plant growing out of it and the good luck plants are actually in the dracaena family. They are grown in a way where the the trunks will be curved as that one is. Whenever you do grow good luck plants you want to for good luck uh grow them put only have a odd number of plants so that’s why I have one. So or you would have three or five or seven etcetera. So so if you have grown them before and thought oh shoot my luck hasn’t gotten any better and you’re you have even number of them you know what the problem is. You could always take one out and put it in another area and you’d have an odd and two odd two odd uh groupings.

Uh the you’ll see in that fiddle leaf fig here, my one one of my fiddle leaf figs I have a tillandsia growing which is also in the same color tones with that fuchsia flower on that uh so that that is a stricta. Tillandsia stricta are one of the easier ones to grow indoors. Some of the others are a lot harder to grow indoors. I will be talking about doing videos on growing tillandsias indoors as well. They’ve become very trendy in recent years. I have been growing them probably for about 20 years now.

To the left of the fiddle leaf fig there on some really pretty plates there that actually come I use a lot of uh as mentioned things that that are very decorative and also I use things um I like to use saucers and cups and tea cups and things like that as well and on top of that is a really pretty purple peperomia. So that looks really nice on that and there’s a foot rest there which has some may be able to see it a little bit there has some beading on it that my mother did uh did dress up this foot rest as well to go with her the purple in her home and now goes really well in in this room. And to the left of that is a really pretty statue holding a ball that was also my mother’s that I always loved.

So back up on top of the bookcase there you will see a spike moss and that’s in a little tea cup as you can see. To the right of that is an African violet that is just finishing up and that is also a teacup set saucer and um cup there so makes a really cute look and to the back of that is actually a teapot that is hand painted. So a really nice little vignette as mentioned pulls it all together and then in the very back on the floor can’t see it as much right now but and there you can see the pretty anthurium and the same color scheme. So pretty much though the same color scheme throughout this whole vignette including uh the my book my book cover as well so it really works out really really well there. So that is it for this section.

All right we are in another section of this room here the office study room and another really pretty vignette here. This bookcase was my mother’s as well and that table there was actually I got in Egypt many years ago and gave it to my mother so got it back when she passed and I really love that table. It’s inlaid and it’s very pretty. On top of that table you will see another moth orchid in the same color scheme as you’ll see this one a little more pink and it’s actually a really cool one. It’s got veining in the darker burgundy and then the pinker the the pink leaves against the pink leaf which is really nice so and the throats are are that uh the burgundy fuchsia color as well.

To the right of that is another one of those hybrid orchids that I was talking about. That one is same color tones as well and very very bright and vibrant really really pretty one as well. Back on the table from Egypt another pretty African violet this one in the nice purple and uh with white variegated white there um actually very the even the white is a little purple and behind that is another a miniature African violet that just finished blooming so that one’s not blooming right now.

On the bookcase there as well you will see to the very right uh um that is a bromeliad uh in species and I um we’ll put the some I’ll put so the links of and um actually uh names of the various plants um below as well for you so that one’s really pretty. It has that nice pinky color as well. Inside of the case you will see some there’s some polka dot plant a pink one. There’s also in there another African violet to the left that’s that that is purple and then to the right to the into the right on that second shelf is a white African violet so real pretty one as well. There’s some pothos in there. The photo that you can see on the bottom there to the very left was my my great grandma Rose and I also have the my middle name is Rose and she is where I got my green thumb because she had quite a green thumb.

So um actually in Tustin California where she moved after they moved from the midwest she put a little sprig into the ground and it became a giant tree a Douglas fir tree so she had quite the green thumb as I mentioned. And also in there on the second shelf in the middle there in the little pot is a little white polka dot plant. So uh those are very I really like the polka dot plants as long as you keep them pinched back because that um otherwise they get rangy but if you keep them pinched back they’re very colorful. They make they really work well in these sorts of vignettes where you’re um showing off your plants and and showing how pretty they are and combining the the accessories with the colors and and the patterns.

The that one on the second shelf with the white African violet that around the pot there is actually wallpaper so you can take wallpaper and you can use wallpaper to decorate your pots as well to bring in the theme as say you have a you’ve used that wallpaper in different areas of the of the space you can also put that on your pots as well so it’s very fun way to do that. You’ll see a little doll there in the very bottom to the bottom inside the cabinet to the right there and that’s a doll that I made with paper mache when I was in girl scouts many moons ago. Uh so and I still have her. She’s got uh um a little little uh her hair has um uh his big big puffy curls there and she has a also you can’t see it you can see a little bit of it but she does have a boa that is pink so it all pulls all the colors together.

In there as well you can see in the background to the left and background of that pink polka dot plant on the bottom shelf there is a um a stock stock the flower that I grew in my garden last year and it dries really well so it’s a really pretty pink that pulls all the colors in together as well. So that is some of the some of what is in there. The little doilies were my great grandmothers and my grandmothers and so I have those in there as well and then the box on that you can see in the front with the blue and it’s it’s it was my mother’s happy box so she had uh she would put things in there that made her happy so I I like to do that as well a little bit a lot of pictures in there right now.

So that’s it for this section and as you can see once again all pulled together with the color tones and even the uh even the shapes like the shape of the uh of the of the bookcase the case as along with the shape of the table and then there’s a painting there to the left there’s actually a girl in a long purple dress and that so that all it all blends really well together and and with the windows there too I have a lot of windows in this room. So there you go with that section and we will move on to the next one.

Okay here we are in another area of my house. This is my dining room. It is a northwest corner and actually this is the west corner here of the dining room. There is a lot of uh foliage uh plants outside a camellia bush outside an orange tree out there so they do shade this window some but it does still get fairly good nice bright light so I can grow quite a bit in this in this room. This is actually the room where that I mentioned my aunt coming to visit and this is the room where she was spending a lot of time uh for a while and really enjoying it so being just being surrounded by like a conservatory of of plants right.

So the uh you will see here uh to the left there to the very left over there in the striped pot that’s my ZZ plant. I love ZZ plant. They have a really nice architectural look to them. They’re extremely easy to grow. They naturally have shiny leaves so if you like shiny leaf plants they’re a great choice for you as I talk about in a video about leaf shine products. Those aren’t really good for your plants because it it prevents them from breathing so if you like that shiny look there you go with this ZZ plant real easy to grow as I mentioned as long as you don’t over water them or over pot them you will be doing really well with them.

Over there in the corner still on the left side there behind the two plants standing up tall there is dracaena. I love dracaena. I love all the dracaenas. They are a great family of plants. I have a video on growing them and there’s they have different leaf sizes and different different leaf shapes and and there’s variegated ones and there’s there’s thin leaves and there’s fat leaves and and all that sort of thing and this this is a real pretty pretty one. So uh that one I believe is from what I can tell is Janet Craig. So pretty real pretty dracaena there.

In front of that to the very left there you will see the money plant that’s a money plant that’s the common name. Now you probably have heard that for other types of plants as well too which is one reason why it’s good to use the uh the botanical names instead. So it’s it’s it’s known as the Chinese money plant uh but it also is uh botanically it is Pilea peperomioides. So peperomioides Pilea peperomioides and it’s a very easy to grow uh as long as you water correctly and it’s really pretty because it’s got the nice round real round leaves like you would think of as coins right.

To the right of that is another peperomia a variegated peperomia that’s a light yellow and a kind of like an army green on that leaf. Really pretty plant as well. I really like that peperomia peperomias are fairly slow growing so they will take some time to do what they they’re going to do but they um but they’re slow and steady growers and and pretty impervious to pests and diseases as well which is really nice.

So you can see a little bit on the bottom of there on the bottom of the of that that shelving unit there underneath the two peperomia and the dracaena I have a variegated pothos down there. So that is the one with the white the ivory and the green more ivory than white and green shade coloration really pretty and I have a couple little fun things there hanging on elf and an owl hanging from that as well.

Okay to the right a little bit here we can see the um right behind the leaf of the ZZ plant another dracaena. So I I really as I mentioned love the dracaenas. This one has a nice uh a nice pointy leaf behind that with the yellow in the leaf the real pretty yellow in the leaf and even some of those yellow colorations actually look like little stars. That is a croton another great family of plants that has a lot of different leaf shapes colors sizes colorations variegations and they are very easy to grow as long as you keep them evenly moist but not soggy. So I am um very enamored by by crotons as well and I do have a few I do have a couple more we’ll be seeing uh in the next area that we’re going to.

Then in front of that you can see in the yellow the with the yellow coloration on the outside of the leaf and then there is a it has a yellow pot to match that is another dracaena. Really nice thing about the dracaenas some of them is they have a really cool whirl pattern like I uh like I’ve mentioned before that almost looks like a flower as it’s opening and they will continue to grow like that. So that is another beauty that I I really like behind that

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