Houseplant Thoughts and Memories

 I was really surprised recently to learn that having a lot of houseplants is a new trend. I thought this was normal. One thing I really did like about the house I grew up in (my biomom's house) was the plants. She always had a LOT of houseplants. the east side of the living room had 4 big windows, and the west side of the room had a sliding glass door, and both of them always had at least one row of plants in front of them. I remember she had several variegated pothos (which we called "ivy"), a ficus, a "rubber tree", an aloe vera, and at giant dieffenbachia. The deiffenbachia got to be about 4 feet tall, and the last time I saw it, it was potted in a giant trash can that she spray-painted green. So the top of it reached at least 6 feet. At one point the central stalk snapped, it broke almost completely, and she was so upset. She ended up taping it back together and it kept on trucking. She also kept some plants in a kitchen "garden window".

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