House plants

06
Apr
2015

Cactus-time

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November cactus Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

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November Cactus Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

The November Cactus keep on flowering. I never stop admiring its flowers.

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November Cactus Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

It seems to be cactus time presently. Happened to turn around one of my other cactus plants and surprise… it hade flowers on the side that had been leaning onto the cold window…

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Cactus flowers Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

I know this kind needs a bit of cold to get flowers. But I hadn’t noticed that they came this year again. it is the second year it has flowers since I moved to this place.

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Cactus Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

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Cactus Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

This cactus has been with me for several years. I don’t even remember how many. In my previous flat it got flowers every year. Here, it is only the second time. The cold from the window it has been leaning against did the trick.

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Cactus Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

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31
Mar
2015

Happy Green Easter and Pessach

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Easter chicken in the herbs. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Easter and Pessach is fast approaching. Time to style your home with decorations and plants. Not that I usually do that, but I just today took check at what decorations I had stored from previous years.  Still hesitant if I will use it or not.

Yellow is the color of Easter. Plants with yellow flowers are nice to have and give som much needed color at this time of the year when the greenery outside is still not awake.

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Minidaffodils. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Bought them on Sunday. Not a single flower had opened then. They all opened up yesterday and today. When they are “done” I plant them outside in one of the flowerbeds so they can come back next year, outside then.

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Kalanchoe. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

I also got a yellow kalanchoe to brighten up the kitchen window.

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Wooden tulip. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

My red, wooden tulip also does its best to brighten up the kitchen.

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White and yellow roses. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

In the livingroom I placed 12 white and yellow roses that I got for free from Plantagen because I bought six eco herb plants at the fair last week.

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Roses. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

Roses are fascinating flowers. Almost too perfect in their form. No fragrance from these ones though.

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Easter eggs. Photo: ©nijni.tjader.2015

Intended to go out and cut off some branches to hang the small easter eggs in. So far didn’t get around to do that as the rain has been mercilessly pouring down the last couple of days (around 40 mm in two days). Today is sunny, but I have other plans (food shopping).

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Easter eggs. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

Also found a couple of empty easter eggs laying around. No point to take them out if not filling them with all kinds of sweets. Need to do some shopping… Normally don’t have sweets laying around. Too tempting…

Not that I celebrate Easter or Pessach in any way, but Happy Holidays everyone.

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16
Mar
2015

The jungle in the kitchen

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Kitchenplants. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

My kitchen has two windows in a corner. One, the above facing south, the second facing west. I stopped using curtains in the kitchen a couple of years ago. I use plants instead. The windows have semi-transparent blinds (from Ikea) to regulate the light and sunshine. Some plants lCAN get too much sun. The windows also have regular blinds that I sometimes in the summer have all the way down.

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Kitchenwindow. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

This time of the year, when there are no fresh herbs outside yet, I also added a pot of thyme on to the kitchen table. In easy reach when you need for cooking.

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Thyme. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I recently did some reorganizing in the kitchen windows as I bought two trellises from Ikea to have somewhere to store some of my pelargonia cuttings until they get roots, and to put some new smallish plants I also found at Ikea.

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Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

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Kitchenwindows. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

One of them bloomed on the second day after it came to my home. The plant has lilac leaves.

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Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

I love my sunny and light kitchen and the way you can have flowers in the window there. It is relaxing watching them when eating breakfast.

The aloe in the corner isa problem. It has become very heavy and big. Hard to keep it upright. It also has a small aloe-baby in the pit that I’ve planned to move to a pot of its own at some time. Just haven’t got around to it yet. Now would probably be a good time for doing it.

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Kitchenwindows. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

And all the orchids on the windowsills are in bloom presently.

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26
Feb
2015

Hanging Plants

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Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

My kitchen has two windows. One facing south, one facing west. They are ideal for plants and most of them love being there. The only problem is that the window sills are so tiny. On the south-facing window to the left, there originally was no window sill at all. I added it later. It cannot take heavy plants though, so only light-weight ones there.

As I don’t use curtains in the kitchen, but I still have the curtain rods, I started to hang plants from them. And one of them, the climber to the left and below, even hangs directly on the curtain rod.

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Photo. ©nini.tjader.2015

The windows have see-through blinds from Ikea to protect the plants from the sun when necessary. The climbing plant that hangs directly on the curtain rod loves it here and is getting bigger and bigger. Fortunately it doesn’t grow TOO fast… It has a slow-growing hanging plant as company on this window.

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Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

In the west-facing window I also have a hanging plant. More conventional one. It used to hang in the livingroom-window but almost died there. Made it start over by cutting off its tips and planting them in new earth and moved it to this window. It is now happy again.

I have tried having some of the orchids hanging too, but that is more difficult as they get pretty heavy. One actually crashed down … Both the pot and the plant survived as it fell on the table and not all the way to the floor. What held the pot up broke (leather cords).

There is still room for one more hanging plant in the west-facing kitchen-window. Might hang one more there.

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04
Feb
2015

Orchid time

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Blooming orchids. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015

The orchids are now beginning to bloom. Still early days for them but they are all coming. Orchids are easy to manage. Give them water not too often – they hate standing with wet feet – and a place which is not directly in the sun but still light enough. They look boring when not in bloom, but on the other hand the bloom is longlasting.

Will be lilac.
A smaller variety.
White with big flowers.
White with lilac edges.
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