The green curtain. Photo: ©nini,tjader.2017
I’ve written about this before, I know. That is, how I stopped using curtains in the kitchen and opted for a green curtain of plants instead. This green curtain has changed over time though so I thought I’d show some recent pictures of how my windows presently look in the kitchen. They will soon change again when some of the plants that are outside on the patio move indoors when the season changes to autumn. It is still summer-like outside, but we have already had some really cold nights. So, soon enough, plants will be moving indoors.
The green curtain. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
The name of the plant above is rhipsalis, a cactus-relative. More about it here.
The green curtain. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
The good about it is that it sifts the light through it and does’t make the kitchen dark. It hangs on the curtain rod above the south-facing window in the kitchen together with another green plant.
The green curtain. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2017
I don’t think the green one to the right (with white stripes on the leaves) is a tradescantia, even though it is somewhat similar to them. Its “flowers” look more like the ones on pepperomia plants. I have no idea which one it is though. The pepperomia family is large.
The green curtain. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2017
Above the two windows in the kitchen a large, and by now quite old, philodendron hangs on the curtain rods and follows the upper part of the window along the ceiling. I have had that one for years already in my previous flat. I know I cut it down a couple of times in my previous flat when I thought it got too tall (long). It had a period this spring and summer getting yellow leaves which fell off, but we are now past that period. It grows new stems again. And new leaves. I probably ought to fill in some fresh soil into the pot it grows in. Otherwise it doesn’t ask for much maintenance. As long as it gets watered it is happy.
The green curtain, philodendron. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
The green curtain, philodendron. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
The green curtains, philodendron. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2017
I have no idea where to lead it when it reaches the end of the second, west-facing, window. It will soon do that……
The green curtain. Photo. ©nini.tjader.2017
In the corner between the two windows I have a plantstand (from IKEA) which presently houses one of my two stephanotis floribunda (doftranka in Swedish). I got them from a neighbour that moved north in June 2015. This one is soon up to the ceiling as well. It has grown a lot since I replanted it in a new, larger pot, with fresh soil this summer. The other one stands in the livingroom.
The green curtain. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
Above it hangs a “wandering jew”, a tradescantia. I have re-started that one several times since I got it as it periodically gets a bit ugly and looses all its leaves at the end that grows in the soil and only keeps the ones on its tops. I then cut the tops off and put them in new soil and -re-start it. Works really well.
The green curtain. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
To the right of the tradescantia hangs two of Ikeas hanging planters, one attached to the other, with in total six (6) spider plants.
The green curtain. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
They presently bloom and have lots of spider plant “babies” hanging down from them.
The green curtain. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
These “babies” are actually ready to plant, but neither I, nor my neighbour, nor other friends, need any more of them.
The green curtain. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
Its flowers are small and white. Rather nice actually. I’ll keep the “babies” and its flower hanging there for a while yet, as long as they look fresh, but in the end, I will probably cut them all off. There will be more of them again.
The green curtain. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
My white orchid is blooming again. On a stem that dried out to half its length and then suddenly shot out a new stem. It is not that long ago since its previous blooming. On the windowsill behind it you can see a cutting from the philodendron. I took that off some time in the spring for someone who wanted a cutting. But it turned out to be too complicated to deliver it, so it still stands there on my window-sill. It took for ever for it to get roots, but now it has and its growing.
What I have on the window-sills presently isn’t all that interesting and it will change soon when I bring in some of the plants from outside. I have my six (6) orchids – which I presently test growing in water only – there and some other smaller plants.
Who needs curtains when you have plants? I have blinds though in case I want to hide from the world outside. I almost never use them.
The green curtain. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2017
