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Jun 2020
3:21pm, 21 Jun 2020
45,289 posts
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Bintmcskint
I have serious plant envy, Cerrertonia
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Jun 2020
3:30pm, 21 Jun 2020
45,862 posts
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McGoohan
Excellent work!
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Jun 2020
3:41pm, 21 Jun 2020
12,779 posts
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Cerrertonia
This one is flowering at the moment - also grown from seed, but by our eighty-something neighbour who has a conservatory full of palm trees, banana plants etc. and we swap plants a fair bit.
In the past, I've grown quite a lot of exotic plants indoors - things like callistemon/ bottlebrush, proteas are quite easy and have nice flowers but they eventually get a bit too big. Used to grow trees too - eucalyptus, jacaranda, ceratonia (hence the username) but you end up throwing them out after a few years.
We have quite a few orchids, palm trees, lots of clivias, some cycads, bromeliads, citrus trees. Lots of succulents nicely arranged in bowls - they're easy to propagate and very simple to look after. Lots of spider plants for some reason. No cacti that I can think of though.
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Jun 2020
8:20pm, 21 Jun 2020
45,294 posts
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Bintmcskint
Meet Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior
In the evening his leaves fold inwards so you can see that beautiful deep red. In the morning he opens up 
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Jun 2020
9:21pm, 21 Jun 2020
19,904 posts
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Columba
Was that today's purchase, Bint?
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Jun 2020
9:30pm, 21 Jun 2020
19,905 posts
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Columba
I've had houseplants most of my life, until OH and I separated, combining this with a massive downsizing operation, and I decided against indoor plants, especially as there were now 3 of us in a 3-bedroomed bungalow and mother and daughter had the two south-facing rooms so I didn't feel I could impose plants on them.
Over the years, each has moved out. I have not bought plants, but have been given them. An orchid, which to my amazement has survived year on year on year, flowering profusely, even though in a most unsuitable pot from which I cannot extract it. And a very large Christmas cactus from a lady moving out of the area: "I'd like you to have it", she said. "It's been in my family for about 100 years".
There is also an aloe, but I can't remember where I got that. Maybe I did bring it with me. It lives in the porch.
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Jun 2020
10:00pm, 21 Jun 2020
45,295 posts
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Bintmcskint
I didn’t purchase anything today in the end. Homebase was most disappointing.
Neymar and his chums were purchased online over the last 3 weeks
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Jun 2020
10:00pm, 21 Jun 2020
45,872 posts
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McGoohan
He's very impressive. Liebling's triffid has closed up now.
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Jun 2020
10:01pm, 21 Jun 2020
45,873 posts
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McGoohan
This fella
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Jun 2020
10:02pm, 21 Jun 2020
45,297 posts
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Bintmcskint
Yeah, still too triffid-like for my liking
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