FOTD – April 18 – Orchids, Anthurium, Cactus and Easter Lilies
For a while, nothing — except the anthurium — was blooming. Now, everything is blooming. Well, almost everything. Two of the orchids are thinking about blooming, but haven’t gotten there quite yet.
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These are lovely!
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Blooms, blooms, beautiful blooms!
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I’m so glad I have an indoor garden because the outside one is way beyond my limited mobility. Flowers still grow, despite years of neglect.
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Your thumb must be very green by now! These are gorgeous!
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I’ve had a moderately green thumb for years, but until I stopped working — and stopped having a big family to feed — I restrained myself. After I didn’t need a dining room, it became my plant room. In my first house, I had hundreds of plants. I was also the editor for Doubleday’s Garden Book Club which helped because to write reviews, I had to also read the books. BUT. I’m pretty much an indoor gardener. I don’t have the spine to do much outside gardening and besides, I hate mud. If I had a gardener… but I don’t.
I had a friend (Mary) who could grow anything. I decided I wanted to grow plants too so we went shopping.
She said: “Put them in the window. Water them when dry.”
“That’s it?” I said.
“That’s it,” she said.
Basically, that’s pretty much what I still do, although with the orchids, I have to be even MORE careful to water them very lightly and no more than once a week. It’s too easy to drown orchids and cactus. I’ve done it more than once and lost several plants from just ONE over watering. They are highly intolerant of even a little bit extra water.
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