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Are you a plant person?

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There are currently 31 houseplants in our home and my husband is rapidly running out of jokes about living in a jungle.

There are big plants…

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And small plants.

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Plants that started out small… but have grown too big for their pots.

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Hell, there are even plants trying to make a run for it and escape their pots altogether.

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The money tree hasn’t netted me one red cent…

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And the pothos will probably wrap around my legs and swallow me whole one day…

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But I love plants and never seem to get my fill.

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Exactly!

Although by the looks of that picture, I actually do have all of those plants.

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      3. Naw…she once knit me a pair if shorts to shut up her dad who had the gall to say to me (as a fat guy) that fat people should never wear bright colored clothing.

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  4. I have three in my room, two spider plants and a corn plant. We have several others around the house, as well as some we are sheltering for the winter. I don’t smoke tobacco so there’s no smell but the air is still fresher. The cats don’t bother the plants, which is a blessing, though Otto (Who else?) really goes for the tassels on the bottom of the hanging pots.

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  7. I’m so jelly of all those posting above who have so many plants. I am a plant killer, I habitually murder any and all plants. I have a brown thumb, I have one one ivy plant that I’ve had since I worked at my first university that some how is still alive. It’s been on the brink of of death but comes back, somehow. I love plants but they die at my hands, I just can’t keep them alive…ugh.

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      1. Yes…..dead too. It was beautiful and lush, then it died. I even had a small cacti that my mom gave me because she said it was a hearty plant, killed it too. Seriously it’s ridiculous how plants don’t like me, ugh.

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      7. This is probably why your plants don’t grow. Do you keep your house well-ventilarted all the time, or do you use an air-conditioner all summer and keep the windows closed all winter.
        Gas appliances affect the carbon dioide levels in the sir, and plants need carbon dioxide to live. Possibly tne carbon momoxide levels produced by burning gas are too low to affect you, but they could be toxic to plants.

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      9. Lol. This is a problem with Word Press. It shows comments one at a time. Feel free to delete my reply to your comment replying to the comment I made to the Huntress, or we might end up in a whole new conversation about something totally different from the topic of the post.

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  10. My oldesr plant is a 50 year old diefenbbachia that has lived on both coasts and everywhere inbetween. I may have mentioned it before. It made the front page of the Winnipeg Free Press when a friend of mine and I were transporting it in his convertible after my marriage ended. it was about 8′ fall at the time, so we had all kinds of people honking at us. I bought it as a 4″ hight plant in the 70s, and it had hundtreds of children and ptobably tjousands of grandchildren if the people I gave babies to are as dedicated as I am. Every five or six years it gets too tall, and has to be cut back, making more babies each time. And that is just the start.
    I cannot begin to even count the number of houseplants we have. I don’t even know what species they all are. Most are potted but about 20 are living in ceilers on windowshelves, waiting to be potted. Their roots have become so thick they might not come out of the bottles.
    One plant that amazes us is a broken stem from a Pittman’s Pride. A cat bit it off one day so i put it in a pot. It has not grown, but it has not died either. It must sits there with shiny green leaves, and looking cuter than a bunny.
    I could go on about all our plants, but I am probably boring your readers by now!

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      1. It is amazing. All plants are amazing. The diefenbachia has been with me through thick and thin, and has outlasted a number of relationships and 1 marriage too. Besides me, it is the most stable thing in my life. I hate to think what will become of it after I’m gone. Luckily Gail will last long after me, she comes from a long-lived family. But after that…

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  11. You have seen our garden, right? That answers your question, I do believe. Outdoor plants are our thing (Cupcake and I), indoor plants have a life expectancy of a mayfly if I am involved, even if the plant is plastic or silk.

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  12. I think we have an even dozen, and the good news is they are alive and thriving. We used to kill anything that came into the house, but in recent years have started to figure things out…or it’s just the law of averages naturally tilting in our favor…and the plants’ favor, of course.

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      1. I do too.
        She tells me “MOTHER!!! You do NOT need to get another plant!!”

        ‘But I want this one!’

        “You don’t NEED it!!”

        ‘ YES I DO!!’
        etc etc etc…

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  17. I am a plant person and jealous of all your plants. I don’t have pretty pots like you do, most of my plants live in terracotta. I tell them it keeps them humble, but now I’m rethinking that.

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