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How many house plants do you have?

236 replies

sevencontinents · 04/03/2022 21:50

I have 20 but I know people who have 80. How many house plants do you have and AIBU to say that having house plants is good for mental health and wellbeing?

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Chloemol · 05/03/2022 10:14

14

Will0wtree · 05/03/2022 10:21

About 130. And they all have different needs for how much water and feed they like. I'd LOVE a conservatory so I could put all the tropical ones in there and create a jungle. It is a bit of a pain to keep them all happy and watered but they bring me lots of happiness.

zingally · 05/03/2022 10:23

3 cacti, a money tree, 3 aloe veras, a peace lily, a spider plant and an unidentifed spindly-leaved tree-like thing.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 05/03/2022 10:26

@sevencontinents

To those who have loads of plants, how do you keep them looked after when you go on holiday?!
Give them some water before we leave.
Bloodybridget · 05/03/2022 10:29

I can count eight, just thinking about it. DP likes having them and I mainly leave it to her to look after them - I do appreciate them too, but I worry about them staying in good condition.

chesteroo · 05/03/2022 10:42

30 - every time I leave the house my son makes me promise not to buy any more plants or candles. He caught me sneaking a plant in the other day - it was as tall as me!

EvilPea · 05/03/2022 10:49

About 40

I too sneak them in now.

StScholastica · 05/03/2022 10:52

20

Weepingwillows12 · 05/03/2022 11:02

I think 15 but I had a lot more before. Had a bit of a cull as was running out of space and most were propogated from others. I will have lots of seeds growing soon too.

Beachsidesunset · 05/03/2022 11:33

Currently one cactus that was accidentally left in a box for 8 months after moving house. I felt so guilty it's had the full works now - repotting, feeding, prime spot on the kitchen windowsill ... apologies every day.

BaggingTheWainwrights · 05/03/2022 11:37

@CurlyTop1980

I love houseplants. I really got into this during lockdown. I have loads. I started with 5/6 plants. My cousin is also house plant mad and he shared all his tips. I now follow this. Every 6 months or so I change the pots, new compost. Wash the roots and soak them in fresh water with fertiliser. Then I split them and plant. I've given loads away doing this too.

The only one I have had problems with is chain of pearls succulents . I've killed 3 so far.....

This is one of my plant corners.

Stunning.
ShinyMe · 05/03/2022 18:37

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

Three massive ones, more like trees, that I’ve had for many years, and 3 ‘standard’ small ones.

My monstera, aka Swiss cheese plant, regularly tries to grow through the ceiling, so every 3 years or so I take 3 or four huge ‘cuttings’ of at least 3 or 4 feet each, with their aerial roots, and leave them in a bucket of water while I chisel the root-crammed compost out of the pot and fill with fresh.

It started as a small house plant from Woolworths IIRC, over 30 years ago.

Only once has just one cutting failed to ‘take’ but the others soon made up for it.

OK we need to see this beauty.
Spidey66 · 05/03/2022 18:48
  1. Occasional bunch of flowers.
billy1966 · 05/03/2022 19:15

Several dozen, several of which are 10ft high that we have had many years.

DH does all the maintenance.

We have what is considered a very large money plant, as in no one has ever seen one as big.

He has taken 8 snips from it which have taken off and are being gratefully received by friends.
You should never buy a money plant, only ever receive one.

I think green plants transform a space.

narcdad · 05/03/2022 19:31

3, they never bloody die!

Cactus 3 years, some bonsi type thing that someone got me as a gift 12 years ago and an funny looking plant / flower thing that was also a gift, my mum kept her cheese plant for over 20 years! 🤣

SwingandaPrayer · 05/03/2022 20:21

55

Josette77 · 05/03/2022 20:27

20

mydogisthebest · 05/03/2022 20:45

Over 100. Last time I actually counted it was 89 but I have bought quite a few since then.

My parents died last year and I have all the plants from their house now. My siblings didn't want them as they are no good with plants.

I love indoor plants and think houses look bare and cold without them

MurmuratingStarling · 05/03/2022 20:47

About 20.

Davros · 05/03/2022 20:59

0
I don't like plants inside

echt · 05/03/2022 21:02

One.

I accumulated a few over lockdown, after DD nagged me about it but they have migrated outside, where they do better. I live in Melbourne, close to the sea, so mild winters, and most of the houseplants you see in the UK grow outside anyway.

I can see how they add to a house, but tend to over water.

I'm propagating plants like mad in the kitchen; oddly it's something I am successful at.

Rach000 · 05/03/2022 21:24

3 small cactus
1 plant that is doing well.
1 that is nearly dead. Had 2 others but they died. These 3 were a set from my dad who moved abroad.
I am not great with indoor plants but would like more. Maybe when the kids are older and I have more time to look after them...

yamadori · 05/03/2022 21:42

20 (21 if you include the supermarket coriander I bought yesterday).

I also have around 150 bonsai trees in pots in the garden.

yamadori · 05/03/2022 22:01

@drinkingwineoutofamug

Got 5. All named , but haven't a clue their proper names . I know 1 is an aloe Vera - Vera . Then a fern thing, a funny looking bonsai thing called manny as it looks like a mandrake. A plant that has funny looking red flowers. And a pineapple plant which my friend is plant sitting, awaiting collection. It's only recent I've started with house plants. Waiting a cutting for a parrot plant off my dad
Your funny looking mandrake thing is a ficus ginseng because they resemble ginseng roots. Their latin name is ficus microcarpa and they are a tropical variety of fig.