Hanging Plants

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.

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.

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.