House Plants

“A plant is a friend who adds color, life, and oxygen to your room.”

C e Hollis

I visited a friend’s farm recently for a writing retreat. She had lots of beautiful healthy plants in her house.

Aloe Vera can help with burns. Just snip off a leaf and squeeze the slimy juice out on the burn. Relief.

Google calls this a syngonium. I’ve been calling it philodendron for years. I guess I am wrong or mistaken. Yes that sounds better.

I know this isn’t a plant but isn’t it pretty!

African violet has soft furry leaves and puts on colorful flowers. I grow some of these.

Brunnera was growing in the flowerbed. It looked something like coral bells to me.

Porcelain flower is named for the shiny leaves with white splotches. They remind me of magnolia leaves.

Only one bloom adorned this False Christmas cactus but it sure looked healthy and well cared for.

A Boston swordfern dripped on the wood coffee table. I think a fern makes any place feel cooler. I love to see a series of them spaced along a porch.

Golden pathos is a fancy name for such a simple plant. What house plants do you grow? What are your favorites?

“Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them” ;and it was so.”

Genesis 1:11