Aggressive trees and greenery

[cimorene]

The last time waxjism rearranged plants she put the three biggest ones - trees, they are trees - all at the west livingroom window.



Left to right (above) are Benjamin the ficus benjamina or weeping fig - inherited from Wax's granny and at least 25 years old; Jules Feiffer the pachira aquatica or money tree - bought as a baby from a nursery because I really wanted it (love the braided trunk) between 2014-2016, so it's pretty old, but it's only ever grown up and it never gets any fatter and barely has any roots; and Nelly the Hibiscus × rosa-sinensis, known colloquially as Chinese hibiscus, China rose, Hawaiian hibiscus, rose mallow and shoeblack plant - this was MIL's pride and joy and I think Wax said it's older than her, so probably at least 50 now. Jules especially is apparently crazy about the light there, even though the grow light died and Wax replaced it temporarily with a normal lightbulb. The window is a jungle.

The north window shelf is covered with three Thanksgiving cacti, two dormant orchids, a philodendron Henderson's Pride, and a polka dotted begonia. This shelf has been more cluttered at times, but it still gives a very strongly planty impression.

Comments

[isilya]

Wow, these are all gorgeous!

[cimorene]

They are all quite charming! Well. Every now and then we lose one (I say we, but Wax is really in charge of all of them, because I tend to forget they exist). And right now she has a couple convalescing upstairs that got sick. But she is most interested in epiphytes and aeroids and they have beautiful foliage! And uhhh she has a really hard time getting rid of them, even if she just accidentally ends up with something that she could root into a cutting, she doesn't want to throw it away instead because "It's alive!" And I kind of have that same feeling. So we suffer from perpetual overcrowding in all the places where a plant could conceivably get sunlight.