The Great Houseplant Census of 2010

Mr. McGregor's Daughter wonders what you are growing in your house. My tally of indoor plants:

Living Room
Croton petras [currently on a slow death march – they don’t like dry very much]
Zamioculcas zamiifolia

Dining Room
Chlorophytum comosum [variegated spider plant]
Cissus rhombifolia [grape ivy]
‘Fatshedera‘  [A cross between Fatsia Japonica & Ivy (Hedera)]
Epipremnum aureum [variegated pothos]
Three stow-aways from the December cold snap – a Dykia, an Agave x, and Wilcoxia albifloria

Office
Vriesea splendens
Zamia furfuracea
Scilla viola
Ficus benjamina
Sansevieria trifasciata
Polyscias  fruticosa [Ming Aralia – currently vacationing on the patio after a bought of malaise]

Bedroom
Orchid x
Polyscias  fruticosa [another one!]
(2) Saintpaulia x [African violets]
(2) Euphorbia splendens [crown of thorns]
Cyclamen [of the grocery store cyclamens, red]
Senecio macroglossus
Schlumbergera x [Christmas blooming cactus]
Nolina recurvata [ponytail palm]

Twenty-five total, including the three winter refugees.  This number is MUCH smaller than what I grew in my Michigan house.

"It's a dry heat" doesn't do much to convince a plant that it's happy. [Doesn't do that much for me, either, truth be told.]

Wait, wait, I forgot the ...

Kitchen

Hippeastrum [Amaryllis]

(2) pitcher plants of unknown specie [Trader Joe's purchase: impulse = bad]

Adenium obesum [in for the winter]

Tray of Fescue grass [testing the seed viability - the danged Bermuda I bought was all dead... and yes, down here we actually plant that evil stuff, if our Landlords have a lawn that we are maintaining.  Fun fun fun, here in the low desert.  Grass.]

(2) pots of Schlumbergera starts [dying, sigh]

Schlumbergera [another impulse purchase, this time for color on my desk at work, now home]

Tradescantia pallida [rooting in a jar]

and something that might be a hoya, but I'm not sure...

So that's 10 more - Thirty-five total.  Hmmm. My SO will declare this a jungle.  He's not fond of plants indoors.  Oh well. 

Comments

[marianne]

Funny and I'm impressed! We have 1 lone Jade plant struggling to survive in the kitchen. Outside, on the other hand, all plants are very happy :-)

[Mr. McGregor's Daughter]

Thanks for participating! Tell your SO that indoor plants are good for your health, as they clean the air of indoor pollutants. (Hey, it's worth a try.)

[bogie]

Wow - I thought I had a lot of houseplants, but you easily beat me!

[Rurality]

I would be a lot more fond of indoor plants if I didn't have to water them. I always forget.

[Annie in Austin]

Not quite a jungle, Garden Djinn, but 35 will at least get you into the middle of MMD's list. Winter refugees swell the ranks in my houseplant census, too. I had quite a few traditional houseplants in IL but they do poorly here - probably a result of shutting out summer sun and too many months of air-conditioning!

Annie at the Transplantable Rose