Hi GPODers!
So far this season we’ve already enjoyed an assortment of wonderful indoor greenery from Barbara in Massachusetts and Leni in Ontario, Canada. Now we’re off to Eden Prairie, Minnesota (Zone 4b/5a) for a tour of Jen Furan’s collection. We were first introduced to Jen’s midwest garden back in August of last year (Jennifer’s New Gardening Journey in Minnesota), but we had no idea that she was hiding all of these incredible treasures indoors.
Living in the cold northern state of Minnesota, once I got bit by the gardening bug a couple years ago it resulted in needing to be surrounded by green in the winter months, too. What began as a few plants, admittedly that I had to replace frequently due to my learning curve, has ballooned into an outright obsession. Some of the plants still become my victims from time to time, but I’d like to think that’s more on them than me. Hope you enjoy looking at some of my indoor plants.
A hand-me-down leather top table isn’t probably the best plant table, but that’s what my mom also used it for. This is an eastern window in my kitchen and dining room area. I’ve hung a grow light from the ceiling to keep the plants happy. These plants include a few hoyas (‘Royal Hawaiian’ hoya [Hoya pubicalyx ‘Royal Hawaiian Purple’] is behind the carnivorous butterwort), air plants, a pink crown of thorns (Euphorbia milii, Zones 9–11), and an orange spider plant (Chlorophytum ‘Fire Flash’, Zones 11–12) I’ve brought back from the brink of death in a cute locally sourced cache pot.
My touch of green atop a tall bookcase where a rattlesnake calathea (Goeppertia insignis, Zones 11–12) and wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens, Zones 3–7) do just fine. Sitting guard is a gnome and a pink mushroom I made at a class held by a local pottery shop.
My obsession even resulted in me refinishing this old bookcase- paint, stencils, and some grow lights turned this into a plant-case instead.
My office has a collection of plants on my desk and printer cabinet. From left to right: ‘Futura Robusta’ snake plant (Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Futura Robusta’, Zones 10–12), ‘Chameleon’ ZZ plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia ‘Chameleon’, Zones 9–10), ‘Wishes’ aglaonema (Aglaonema ‘Wishes’, Zones 10–12), and a medley of assorted pothos.
The pothos (Epipremnum aureum, Zones 10–12) medley includes epipremnum varieties ‘Snow Queen,’ ‘Neon,’ ‘Cebu Blue,’ and ‘Manjula.’
This is the western window of my office where in the winter months my crown of thorns and butterworts need help with some extra grow lights. I even had to get a second-hand table just to make room for more plants.
I’ve become a bit enamored with hoyas. ‘Lisa’ hoya (Hoya australis ‘Lisa’, Zones 10–11) on the left and two ‘Super Silver’ hoya (Hoya krohniana ‘Eskimo’, Zones 10–11) that I got as small cuttings have done well in this west facing window.
Zebra haworthia (Haworthia attenuata, Zones 9–11) and ‘Quito’ peperomia (Peperomia caperata ‘Quito’, Zones 11–12) brighten the office corner, with what has become a wood carving of a fitting house plant motto for me – begin again.
This paphiopedilum hybrid venus slipper with variegated leaves is a newer addition that I can’t stop staring at. Its been happy in an eastern window of my living room.
My Hoya walliniana (Zones 11–12) in a western window of my living room has been blooming profusely since I broughtit home, with a couple more getting ready to open.
Thank you so much for sharing your incredible houseplant collection with us, Jen! With your spectacular gardens I’m not sure how you find time to care for all these beauties indoors, color me impressed.
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