I love flowers and plants and I just can not imagine a house without any plants. Plants give our house life and makes our house beautiful. If you have green fingers, you are so lucky and can handle any plants or flowers. I am not sure if I have green fingers. Sometimes I do. I remember in the past when I was still a student, I had a mini cactus that I placed in the shadow, and gave it water every day. It died within a week... Now I know you shouldn't give a cactus much water and not every week, especially during cold days.
When we still lived in an apartment, I bought many flowers/plants for our house. I bought them especially for our tiny balcony we had. In the beginning, my husband was the one who bought many plants and flowers for the balcony during summer. He didn't give them water for a week and they all died... Then I suddenly had the desire to make our balcony nice with flowers and plants. Of course I watered them every day during hot days. The balcony looks really like a flower paradise :-). The climbing plants on the wall are Hedera Helix. Our balcony doesn't get much sun, especially that wall. SO this climbing plants is perfect for a place with a lot of shadow.
My first climbing plant was a clematis. Well, that climbing plant never gave flowers. Then I began to read online about this plant. It needs a lot of sunlight...
We don't live in that apartment anymore, but I do miss my tiny balcony- pimped-with-flowers a lot. I love the hanging plants too, it reminds me of human hair or women with long beautiful hair. We now have a front garden, huge backyard and roof terrace. They looked like a jungle when we bought it first, they had somewhat of a witch garden, an abandoned witch garden. The backyard had 42 trees that looked like Christmas trees. and a large grape bush covered with snails and only has small super sour grapes on it. The front garden has a pear tree with many pears in the summer but they stay somehow green and raw forever. So we let someone remove that tree.
This is our front garden with a hanging sakura/cherry blossom tree. I bought this tree last year during spring and I always wondered why nobody at my neighbourhood have a sakura tree because they are so beautiful. With flowers they are beautiful. So the first two weeks this tree had so many flowers and I was staring all the time at it. After two weeks passed by, the tree didn't have a single flower! So I googled and found out that it is normal. Now I know why nobody in my neighbourhood has a sakura tree. I have to say that I regret I bought this tree.
When I cycle to the city, I see houses with a tree that has many purple flowers. I saw it last week in a garden centre too, the tree with purple flowers is a Magnolia tree. I want to replace my cherry blossom with a magnolia tree. The cherry blossom/sakura, I want to place in a large pot. I am not sure if I would damage the roots when I take it out of the ground.
We have plants at our roof terrace. Compassion roses (left and right), Jasmine( the ones with red leaves) and the middle one is a Blue Moon Wisteria.
It should look like this in summer....
Last year it only has leaves. I hope this summer it will give flowers too!
In the living room we have a Dracaena Marginata. It doesn't need much water or attention. So perfect for me :-D. I only need to water it once in 2 weeks during winter, but you can also give it once in 3 or 4 weeks. Don't mind that corner, I put clay there because last year we had some mice and the entire floor has some small holes between the walls so mice can easily go under the floor.
On the attic we have a rubber tree. This is also a very easy tree. Currently I call it a plant because it doesn't look like a tree yet. We have this already longer than a year.
In India they have this tree in the jungle and it's called a "living" bridge because they use the roots of this tree/plant as a bridge. How cool is that! maybe our house will look like this after 30 years.
Above our bed we have a China Doll/Radermachera Sinica plant. I heard, when it comes to Feng Shui, that it is not good to have any plant near your bed because plants release carbon dioxide at night and that can somehow disturb your sleep. I sleep like I normally do.
In the laundry room I have this plant with pink flowers that I bought in Germany two weeks ago. It was funny considering the fact that this flower plant is imported from the Netherlands. The first week this plant was fine, now it looks kinda sad... Maybe too much water?
Last week me and my husband bought an indoor Jasmin plant. But I don't know why my plant has fewer flowers than his Jasmin. Mine has new branches with leaves growing but just a few flowers. I don't get it. Usually plants die the first week with him. I realise now that flowers die quickly with me and plants without flowers are better and easier to take care of.
What kinds of flowers/plants/trees do you have at home and for long do you have them?
