I like lists!

I love to make lists. And countdowns. I will list or count down to almost anything, I even have a countdown app on my phone. Now, I have recently come to the realisation that I am probably a bit of a houseplant hoarder and definitely an avid collector. If I am at the store and I see a plant I do not have yet, guaranteed it will be coming home! With a few exceptions I don't have very many duplicates of the same type of plant, the main defactor to this is Schefflera. In the past I wasn't a Schefflera fan, no real reason, they just didn't do much for me. I bought a small one to add to the collection and that was it. Then I bought a lot of plants from Kijiji for $10 that included a fairly large Schefflera specimen, and into the window it went. THEN I found another, again on Kijiji (yay!) for $10 that was HUGE, so I got that one too. AND THEN Craig brought me home a Schefflera he rescued from being tossed out at work and HOLY CRAP it is about 6 feet tall and literally a tree! So now I have four of the very plant I used to somewhat dislike. Anyways, I decided to walk around my house and make a list (LISTS!<3) of all the plants I have, just to really get an idea of what my collection is like. Here's my list:

-lithops
-pink calla lily
-phalaenopsis orchid
-polka dot plant
-small green/yellow palm (unsure what kind)
-variegated pothos
-pink geranium
-sago palm
-christmas cactus
-shamrock
-variegated english ivy
-green english ivy
-small african violet
-hen and chicks
-2 baby spider plants
-tiny baby hen and chick
-baby deiffenbachia
-purple velvet plant
-small jade plant
-silver nerve plant
-peperomia
-earth star bromeliad
-strange Ikea succulent
-crown of thorns
-kalanchoe w/purple flowers
-small succulent garden (3 different)
-lucky bean
-medium deiffenbachia
-medium african violet
-peace lily
-china doll
-large jade plant
-small schefflera
-black calla lily
-snake plant
-red dracaena
-small agave
-large deiffenbachia and spider plant (same pot)
-lime green pothos
-spider plant in hanging pot
-lipstick plant
-2 round cactus (same pot)
-money tree
-small cactus garden (3 different)
-ponytail palm
-small lucky bamboo
-aloe vera
-syngonium
-marimo (lives in the aquarium)
-spiral lucky bamboo
-calathea
-ardisia (still alive after Christmas!)
-tall dracaena
-large succulent type vine (unsure what it actually is)
-corn plant
-medium schefflera
-two large spider plants
-large schefflera
-huge schefflera tree
-ficus benjamina
-big twisty dracaena (friends with huge schefflera)
-sad ugly rehab pothos (trying to revive from an office building)

That's all of them! 62 list entries... holy crap, I have quite a collection! Well that's all for now, pictures are of the two biggest schefflera. Hope you liked my list!

Where you goin', sightseer pig?

More plant pictures!

Just a few today, I bought a couple more plants while at Walmart yesterday (I CAN'T SAY NO), here they are!


A pretty money tree, and only $2! How could I say no? (Answer: I can't.) I'm really on this natural colour pot with colourful saucer thing right now. I will have to go to the discount store a THIRD time to pick up even more of these! I have used up all that I've bought on my last two trips.


Not a new plant, but I just noticed today that my shamrock plant has a little flower!


I had to trim some dying stuff off the poor schefflera and then re-stake it to hold up the rest, I'm hoping this one will come back! Beside it is the new arrowhead plant I got along with the others yesterday.


Another not-new plant, but doesn't the christmas cactus look cute in it's new green pot and blue saucer? There used to be three stems, one died and I'm still not sure why, but the other two are doing great!

Well that's all for now, stay tuned for more fun, including moving all of these plants to a new house!

Last one for today!

I think I will call it a day, this will be the 11th post in the Snowy St. Patty's Day Post Extravaganza(tm)!, and I think I'm all posted out for today. To finish off here are the newest houseplants to the family, a peperomia and a very sickly schefflera that I couldn't help but rescue from Walmart. Aren't they cute in their matching biopots and colourful saucers? I think I have a houseplant problem!

Magnets.

In this house, you best be liking refrigerator magnets.

A break from Pictures Of Houseplants.

Now time for a couple of random pictures of my house! I took these earlier while wandering around with the camera.


I call this one "The Hallway, with Keys."


And this one is "Blue Bathroom."

Deiffenbachia is still growing!

Remember the post from earlier showing how much my deiffenbachia had grown? Well here are a couple of pictures of it today! Look at it go!