Beginner Gardening: Fairly new to keeping plants alive, not at killing them! p1, 0 by Rayvynn5374

Rayvynn5374 wrote:
Hi! In my family I have a reputation of being a murderer...of plants! My brother passed away almost a year ago and the funeral home gave us (the family) a basket of plants. To my shock my mom and older brother entrusted me with the plants. As soon as I got back into town I took them out of the moss looking stuff and wicker basket and put them into dirt and kept them at work (warehouse, dirty environment) with me until I lost my job, in June. Since bringing them home I have repotted all of them twice. An English Ivy (I believe that is what it was) died within the week of being home. I have pictures to share, and lots of questions. Obviously I don't want to kill these plants but I fear that I am. This is the one that is doing the best. Some of its vines are 15 feet long, but the leaves are so spread out. At work it had lots of room to spread out. However at home this is the only place it seems to do well in. The vines obvioulsy go up from the pot (with the help of some rubber coated poles stuck into the dirt. At the ceiling is another rubber coated pole hanging from a plant hook for the vines to go through. Questions for this plant:

Any ideas for letting it spread out? Keeping in mind I have two dogs that think dirt is a grand thing and this is the only area it hasn't turned yellow and brown in.

What would happen if I put it outside in summer? Here in Northeast I think it would freeze in winter. am I wrong?

More pics and questions to come, sorry for being new and annoying at the same time!

Amy