Question of the Day, Friday, Sept 25

Winchester · Sep 25, 2015

Good morning!

And Happy Friday!

And welcome to the last Friday in September. Gosh, I can't believe we're almost through September already.

Do you have houseplants?

I have no plants at home; the cats consider any and all plants a tasty lunch, so I don't go there. I do, however, have my office chock-full of spider plants, African violets, prayer plants, a humongous pathos, a pencil plant, and a couple Christmas cacti. There's a large dracaena on a stand here that just finished blooming again. I dearly love plants and wish I could have them throughout the house, too.

What plants (if any) do you have?

kntrygrl256 · Sep 25, 2015

I don't have any houseplants because I don't want to take a chance on them being poisonous for my babies. I have an aloe plant on my kitchen counter but they don't mess with it. I keep it around because I'm terrible about getting burned in the kitchen.

I have several succulents outside on a plant shelf but they don't mess with them when they are outside. I just won't take a chance on putting any inside. Besides, succulents are really the only plant I can't kill, LOL.

Norachan · Sep 25, 2015

I have a couple of small cacti on a high shelf where Hiro can't reach them. You'd think that having outdoor access they'd leave the house plants alone, but they always knock them over and rip the leaves off if they can get to them.

bbdoll22 · Sep 25, 2015

I have a Boston fern and 4 pothos. All are hanging from ceiling hooks so the cats and kids have no access to them

di and bob · Sep 25, 2015

I have three large plants (all from funerals), two Christmas cactus (one from the 1950's) and one dumb cane that I've had since 1980 and keep starting again and again. I have extensive berms and flower beds outside on our acre in town, where I spend most of my time and get to enjoy the scents and colors and then REST in the winter.

Draco · Sep 25, 2015

my cats would eat my plants. But I do have plants in my gecko's terrarium. I have a fern that I recently plucked from my outside planter (I hope it grows!), pothos, and some bromelaids. I need to find more gecko safe plants.

at work, I have a flourishing venus fly trap. I love this thing!

catlover19 · Sep 25, 2015

I have a money tree in the kitchen window but that's it.

dejolane · Sep 25, 2015

no house plants cause they way my cats chase each other and knock things down it wouldn't be good for me.

MoochNNoodles · Sep 25, 2015

I don't. I'm really not a plant fan. That's kind of putting it mildly. I used to like watering my co-workers plants when she would go on vacation. It was a good reason to get up and stretch my legs. Also she had an office and I didn't!

None of hers were big and most were some sort of succulent and didn't need much care anyway.

I keep all my plants outside! I don't know that i'd be able to have them with the cats or my kids. My friend's mother had tons of indoor plants and I helped them move once; but I didn't touch one single plant. I left that to others! One vining plant was so long it actually wrapped around the room; draped over a curio cabinet an sliding glass doors. She rolled it up to move it! My Mom had to keep her plants trimmed or I wouldn't walk by it! My cousin's MIL had a huge tropical plant that reached the ceiling. When you opened the door to go in it would push it up so I didn't see it at first. I about screamed like a little girl in a haunted house when it came back down after I walked in. I. Don't. Do. Plants.

I do love my garden outside; but I'm specific about how I go about it, what I plant and what I wear when I'm hands on it with them. That is a big thing for me!

sivyaleah · Sep 25, 2015

I only have a couple of African violets, on the windowsill over the kitchen sink.

We get terrible light in our home due to the way its positioned relative to how the sun moves through the day; either too much or not enough. Not great for plants, even though I'm good with them.

I did have an orchid last for about 6 months. But eventually that died. St leadt violets do pretty good in that one location.

Columbine · Sep 25, 2015

We haven't had houseplants since Cali ( :rbheart:

). He ADORED flowers, and would love them and nuzzle them and bat them until they ended up on the floor in a big mess

Before that, we always had baskets of hyacinths on the living room windowsills because mum loves them.

This house is a flower free zone now, apart from the occasional vase in the kitchen - the door is kept shut to stop the dogs helping themselves to food, so it's a largely cat free zone.

bbdoll22 · Sep 25, 2015

MoochNNoodles said:
I don't. I'm really not a plant fan. That's kind of putting it mildly. I used to like watering my co-workers plants when she would go on vacation. It was a good reason to get up and stretch my legs. Also she had an office and I didn't! :lol3: None of hers were big and most were some sort of succulent and didn't need much care anyway.

I keep all my plants outside! I don't know that i'd be able to have them with the cats or my kids. My friend's mother had tons of indoor plants and I helped them move once; but I didn't touch one single plant. I left that to others! One vining plant was so long it actually wrapped around the room; draped over a curio cabinet an sliding glass doors. She rolled it up to move it! My Mom had to keep her plants trimmed or I wouldn't walk by it! My cousin's MIL had a huge tropical plant that reached the ceiling. When you opened the door to go in it would push it up so I didn't see it at first. I about screamed like a little girl in a haunted house when it came back down after I walked in. I. Don't. Do. Plants. :uuh: I do love my garden outside; but I'm specific about how I go about it, what I plant and what I wear when I'm hands on it with them. That is a big thing for me!

You would hate the pothos I have in the corner, it's a big one.
I have no problem with house plants but I have a phobia of trees and larger bushes.

micknsnicks2mom · Sep 25, 2015

no houseplants here, and i never bring in cut flowers either. i'm extremely careful for my cats, nothing that could cause illness if gotten into by them.

outdoors i have many perennials, bushes, and a young red maple tree that i tend to.

cassiopea · Sep 25, 2015

I have a Wandering Jew.

(Plant of course, not an actual one!)

I used to grow some catnip, but my kitties seem to be the only ones in the world not interested.

Otherwise, I often just get a bouquet of flowers -especially roses- and put them in a vase.

Morgana and Cam are notorious for nibbling on potted plants, but they seem to totally leave the the vase ones alone! Which is always good.

LTS3 · Sep 25, 2015

I have four plants: an African violet, an aloe, and two air plants. The aloe and African violet are in a greenhouse to keep the cats from eating them / knocking them over. One air plant sits next to the greenhouse and the other one hangs by the window. All the plants are kept in the bedroom which I keep closed off to the cats whenever I'm not home. When the cats are in the bedroom they ignore the plants. I get tons of sun during the day (not quite as much now since an apartment building was built next door in what used to be a big empty lot

) so I have to keep the curtains partially drawn to prevent the plants from being burned.

Willowy · Sep 26, 2015

I have a spider plant, a Christmas/Easter/whatever cactus (not the fat spiny kind of cactus, the flat-leafy kind), an air plant and a pot of baby cacti (from a variety pack of seeds so I don't know what kind)---so far 6 have sprouted. The air plant isn't looking so great even though I'm following all the rules. Only I can manage to kill an air plant, huh? :tongue2:

The spider plant and big cactus are on hanging hooks from the ceiling and the little ones are on a windowsill, where the shade comes down in a way so the cats can't get in (or haven't gotten in, not yet at least). Sometimes I hang the air plant from one of the other plants' hooks, if the sun is too much on the windowsill (but the window faces East and is a little shaded so not usually too bad).

I like plants but I don't exactly have a green thumb so they don't like me too much :lol3:.

kathyfromcanada · Sep 26, 2015

I have lot's of spider plants. A new Zealand flax. Aloe vera. Coleus. Hibiscus. Jade. Chinese evergreen plant. I have some I can't even remember the names of. My house looks like a solarium in the winter. I over winter, several canna lilies.

I will be giving away some of the canna lily bulbs to my cousins this year as they have really multiplied. Almost forgot the boston fern.

stewball · Sep 26, 2015

Ibhave a large mother in law's tongue that they ignore and one weird one that blighty seems bent on destroying.

kntrygrl256 · Sep 28, 2015

Cassiopea said:
I have a Wandering Jew.

(Plant of course, not an actual one!)

I used to grow some catnip, but my kitties seem to be the only ones in the world not interested.

Otherwise, I often just get a bouquet of flowers -especially roses- and put them in a vase.

Morgana and Cam are notorious for nibbling on potted plants, but they seem to totally leave the the vase ones alone! Which is always good.

Mine don't seem to like the dried catnip I buy in the stores. I may get some fresh to grow and see if they would like that better.

I use to have two cats that were just like Polka with catnip. They had to have it everyday.

AbbysMom · Sep 30, 2015

I have quite a few houseplants.

Abby isn't a chewer.

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