When Jack said recently that our bathroom Boston fern would look better if it had companion plants, I took it to heart and tapped in to my desire cultivate more house plants.
But first, I'm sad to report that our Meyer lemon tree succumbed to something at the beginning of the year, after 1.5 years with us. It smelled so good and we made lemonade once or twice. I'd consider getting another, if we had a better idea of what went wrong.
Before I get to the new plants, here's a picture of our aloe, which was actually sun burned from being in the kitchen. It looks so much better now. Yes, having a sunny kitchen is kind of a nice problem. The other senior members of the house hold plants are the fern I mentioned earlier, some spider plants for the cats to occasionally munch on and an absolutely easy going rubber plant that was a house warming gift.
Now for the newcomers, whose names I will mostly not remember unless I document them here.
Though they are not yet in their ideal pots, we welcomed a trio of sansevieria trifasciata (mother in law's tongue, from IKEA). I've been dreaming of plants here since we got the coat rack up two years ago. The two story open space around the entry gets eastern light Did you notice the young black cat who wishes we would take him for lazy cat walks?
In the bathroom, the fern's new friends are a purple waffle plant and a pothos 'N Joy' (the variegated one on the bottom shelf) . In the kitchen we have a trio of succulents, called echevaria afterglow (red), sedeveria (jet beads, the small green one) and crassula (curly green, large green one).
The stairwell is one of our favorite features of the house, and it has a lot of diffuse light from the skylights and the transparent panels between the stairs and the second and third floor rooms. We have a lemon button fern and then this little tree is a dracaena (marginata sunray)
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