What was the most difficult houseplant for you?

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pepper23 KC Metro area, MO(Zone 6a) Sep 09, 2007

My challenge now for winter will be a huge jasmine and a gardenia. I have to figure out where to store them and keep them happy. If I thought they could handle very little light in the basement I would keep them down there.

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WUVIE Hulbert, OK(Zone 7a) Sep 29, 2007

What a fun thread!

I do best with plants that can take watering when I feel like it,
however much I feel like, and if I think about watering them.

Anything fussy, prissy or with consistent blooms seem to die when
they come to live with me. It's rough around here, you put out or you
get out. No special treatment for anyone.

LOL

KM

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VA_Wild_Rose Fredericksburg, VA(Zone 7a) Sep 29, 2007

WUVIE said... "you put out or you get out."

ROFLMAO!!!!

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WUVIE Hulbert, OK(Zone 7a) Sep 29, 2007

LOL...It's a tough life around here, Rose.
That is, unless you are one of the cats.

;-)

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VA_Wild_Rose Fredericksburg, VA(Zone 7a) Sep 29, 2007

I hear ya! I've got three of those too! And yes, they seem to fare better than the plants do!!! LOL!

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gaiadisciple Fuquay-Varina, NC(Zone 7a) Oct 18, 2007

that's only because plants can't bite your leg when you forget to feed and water them

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ByndeweedBeth scio, oregon, OR(Zone 8a) Oct 18, 2007

Calathea makoyana

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pepper23 KC Metro area, MO(Zone 6a) Oct 19, 2007

LOL gaia.

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WUVIE Hulbert, OK(Zone 7a) Oct 19, 2007

You all are too funny. But quite right. LOL

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pepper23 KC Metro area, MO(Zone 6a) Oct 19, 2007

We live to be funny.

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triss96 Paxton, FL Oct 26, 2007

I would probably have to say a venus flytrap!Those things just really do not like me!LoL

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jsxtiger (jax) Dundalk, MD(Zone 7a) Oct 31, 2007

Oh, you guys are just too funny...but very informative! herbivore74, I agree with you regarding the sensitives. My husband brought me two small Touch-me-nots, recently. (Someone at his job gave them to him, after he admired them.) I potted and watered them...and in two days they were dead! I felt so bad! So, unless someone can change my mind with more care information...no more of that variety for me.

And, Growhappy..it is especially nice to see input from someone so close. You are near Lutherville? ...... and I am in Dundalk! Hi Hon!

and to everyone else...HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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sallyg Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b) Oct 31, 2007

Hm, I just got a touch me not mimosa recently. At least now i know what I'm up against.
I tend to have Xmas Cactus die off after flowering. Is that a common problem?
Hi fellow MDers.

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jenny617a Moody, AL Apr 28, 2023

I personally like moth orchid, elephant ear, fiddle leaf fig and croton.

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MossyTrail Greenville, NC(Zone 8b) Jun 26, 2024

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My amrallyis has only bloomed once for me no matter what I do. Have had it over 2 yrs.


I used to have an amaryllis. It bloomed approximately once every 4--6 years, and would cycle through several periods of growth and dormancy in between. Anywhere from 1 to 4 leaves would form, then die back. If it produced a 5th leaf, I knew it was about to bloom.

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