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Sunlight, Warmth, Happiness… and triffids

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McGoohan Jun 2020 8:29am, 21 Jun 2020 45,850 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan So… houseplants, eh? They’re the pet it’s okay to forget to feed (sometimes). And they don’t wet themselves (except sometimes). Do you get pleasure from yours? Or is it one of those annoying ones that drops sticky residue on the window ledge? (I grew a small grapefruit bush from a pip once in a flowerpot in the living room and it basically shed sap into everything. Let's just say it's gone to live on a farm.) And more importantly have you got any that started off as tiny little cute seedlings and then have grown out of control like a triffid?
McGoohan Jun 2020 8:31am, 21 Jun 2020 45,851 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan Here's some of our chaps
Bintmcskint Jun 2020 8:37am, 21 Jun 2020 45,287 posts	Quote Pin Bintmcskint My new favourite thread
McGoohan Jun 2020 8:39am, 21 Jun 2020 45,853 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan I used to collect cacti - their flowers are really lovely - but they do tend to jab you in the fingers when you're not paying attention. One bloke at work used to have about 25 cacti in small pots on his desk in a grid of 5x5
PaulaMc Jun 2020 8:46am, 21 Jun 2020 9,481 posts	Quote Pin PaulaMc I sent Bint your way and now I’m thinking I should go and buy some plants just so that I can join in, too.
njosmith Jun 2020 8:47am, 21 Jun 2020 535 posts	Quote Pin njosmith Our Claw Cactus has just flowered.
McGoohan Jun 2020 8:48am, 21 Jun 2020 45,854 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan Yes, do! I went to Ikea last night (awards self a medal for extreme shopping bravery) and was tempted by a load of very green looking houseplants... until I realised they were all plastic!
LazyDaisy Jun 2020 8:49am, 21 Jun 2020 30,492 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy OH, in the days when he was merely boyf, made a little cross out of cocktail sticks with a paper RIP label and stuck it in the pot of an avocado stone my mum was trying to germinate. She had the last laugh as it did germinate. And turned into the most boring (and unproductive) house plant ever.
McGoohan Jun 2020 8:49am, 21 Jun 2020 45,855 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan njosmith - that is lovely (and a bit triffidy)
PaulaMc Jun 2020 8:51am, 21 Jun 2020 9,482 posts	Quote Pin PaulaMc This is the only houseplant we have. My Nan gave it to me when we moved in together. In 1986. I think OH waters it from time to time. It’s a tenacious bugger.