Show off your plants

[A Maybe Baker]

What do you got? Do you keep them alive long? We have more than this and use grow lights inside because new england isn't great year round for it. But plants!

 

[Scott]

Got a couple! Haven't killed them yet. I'm planning on getting more, once I've got some places to actually put them. Not sure which, will end up going to a garden centre and just seeing what looks cool.

 

[TD]

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[Major Isoor]

ooh, I'll have to post pics when I'm at home - I have a few. Not as many/spectacular as some of the photos in here though, for sure!

But yeah, I have a funny ability I like to refer to as "benign neglect", where I can (mostly) ignore plants and they'll grow fine. My sisters hate it because they always had issues with plants, while I never have! e.g. when I was a kid I grew a large pumpkin which won two awards in my town's annual fair, as it was magnificent! (I bought a book with the prize money, IIRC. Love prize vouchers, haha)

More recently though, I saved a tiny, scrappy bit of plant -the name escapes me- which was ripped off and crushed under a garbage truck. I popped it into a planter to see if it could be saved. Gave it water and a tiny bit of fertiliser, then promptly forgot about it for a month or two. And well, here it was about a month ago, before I gave it some friends:

It's a hardy plant I know, but seeing it out there like that was still a relief! I'd COMPLETELY forgotten about it, so seeing this manky little leaf attached to a tiny bit of plant gore grow into this (mostly) on its own was pretty good! It's doing even better now.

Anyway, I have other plants around too, but that's my most recent success story, which also very much lives up to the stereotype I seem to have with my family, haha

 

[Marlfox]

I’ve had house plants long enough now to keep them alive. My longest laster is a cactus (not pictured) which I bought 15 years ago and eventually gave to my parents. They don’t remember to water it so I water it when I visit them every 5-8 months. Somehow that’s enough to keep it kicking.

Here’s my plant shelf at home.

 

[Smacktard]

These are my pants. Grey, subtle houndstooth patterning. I likely got them at Marks and Spencer -- their clothes are high quality and last for ages.

edit: misread the title

 

[Fool's Requiem]

These are my pants. Grey, subtle houndstooth patterning. I likely got them at Marks and Spencer -- their clothes are high quality and last for ages.

edit: misread the title

Part of me was hoping that you did this for a gag because that was the exact thing I thought of when I saw this thread.

 

[Marlfox]

My longest laster is a cactus which I bought 15 years ago and eventually gave to my parents. They don’t remember to water it so I water it when I visit them every 5-8 months. Somehow that’s enough to keep it kicking.

Visiting my parents today, first time here since Christmas, aaaaaaand the cactus is in dire need of water - still alive though!