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how many house plants do you have growing in your house?
which house plant is easiest to keep???
15 Answers
- puffin57Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I had none up till recently. I am not a big fan of plants, I would go so far to say I am a bit freaked out by plants unless they are outdoors in a garden/park or the like.
However, this mothers day, my son came home with a Bizzy Lizzy plant. Just a wee sprig. I just couldn't do anything but keep it! It grew well, I had to get someone else to repot it (I just cannot bear the thought of that!) and it is thriving! I actually really like it. I don't mind watering the thing, although taking off the fallen petals is a sight to be seen - I can't bear to touch houseplants, even with gloves on, so I have devised another method with tweezers (with as long a handle as I can!)
I am also amazed it has lasted as long - I have had plants in the past (grudgingly sometimes) and even if I followed the instructions of care to the letter I can kill them. I could probably kill plastic flowers!
But, my Bizzy Lizzie is hanging on in there. Doubt I'll get any more, though!
- Tubong MangyanLv 41 decade ago
I can't really count now since I have been in this hobby of collecting ornamental plants since I was 25 and I am 62 now. The easiest to keep are the cactuses of which I have 25 different kinds, and the bromeliads. They grow under the sun, under part shades with any type of composted materials with garden soil. Then I have different fortune plants and different palms.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I have 14 and have always found Spider plants are the easiest.
They grow better if they are kept pot bound which makes them put out lots of baby plants.
- JOHN DLv 41 decade ago
HI I have nine house plants and always cut flowers,the easiest is my rubber plant,but watering is the only problem you should have on any house plants,be careful not to over water and under water its all TLC,Good luck John
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- 1 decade ago
I have 3 growing. I have an Aloe Vera plant, a Money tree and mini roses that my son bought me :)
I would say that cactus's are the easiest.
- Anonymous5 years ago
I used to live in a basement suite in a city where it rained all the time. Talk about gloomy living conditions, but I had philadendrons, english ivy, a rubber tree plant and spider plants, and they all did amazingly well in low light. You could always Google low light houseplants, and see what they come up with. Good luck!
- Kathy SLv 51 decade ago
At least 11. The easiest are cacti (unless you water them to death) the second easiest: chlorophytum (spider plant) is virtually indestructible. I wouldn't be without them, some are cutting from my mother's plants and they remind me of her now she's no longer with us, some are from dear friends and one from my children to welcome me home after a week away when they were tiny (Dad helped!) over 20 years ago.
- QuizardLv 71 decade ago
2. some shamrock I grew fom a sprig 2 St Patrick's Day ago and a Christmas Cactus that was dieingand I rescued from a shared residence 17 years ago. it is flowering now and actually flowered 2 years ago.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Dozens! I think the easiest are the ferns & zygo cactus