Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: Thoughts, issues, and successes of Indoor Gardeners., 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
I took 2 rather long trips in Sept and Oct and a few of my plants are still recuperating but most of them are back on track and looking pretty good. I have found that my plants always suffer when I travel.
My large Bougainvillea dropped most of its leaves due to lack of water, but although not back to it’s original it is on the right track and leafing out very nicely again.
I have a Rex Begonia the leaves look like red velvet. I picked it up at my hobby greenhouse Assoc. meeting. For just a few $ you buy raffle tickets, the plants on the raffle table have been donated from other members and the proceeds go to the Assoc. I’m not even sure I like this plant but keep thinking that when it is looking good with more than one leaf it will be a beauty. It was pretty sad when I brought it home but it was starting to come around putting out new leaves and picking up a bit, then the two new leaves that had started were broke off. I tucked them both into some potting soil put that into a zip lock bag and went away for about 3 weeks when I came home I found that they had rooted and there are a few very small new leaves. The original plant was looking pretty rough again no new growth, the only leaf almost dried up. Must have caught it just in time as it has just started to put out a little bit of new growth, too.