Pollen Market

Hi all! Yesterday was such a great day, we visited Pollen Market - a colourful market with plants, soaps, refreshments and the Sheffield Uni big band. The weather was balmy, the vibes were great and the music was so good! My OH treated me to a bouquet and we bought a couple of plants and french soaps.

I need to do a full plant update soon but for now you can enjoy these pictures from yesterday :)

heron garden ornament and healthy plants

mixed herbs including some lesser known ones

my gorgeous bouquet

divine smelling soaps - I bought citronella, coconut and green apple

oriental cactus in its new spot 

juicy string of pearls which will live in the attic

New house update!

Hello, I thought it was time to have an update to see how everyone has settled into the new house. There's been a few changes. Let's take a look..

So I ended up splitting the huge monstera into two pots and since then, each pot has had a new leaf. I believe it was a success. This is just one of the pots.

A money plant I think, which happily lives in between both monstera. I should add that these plants are on a very high shelf to try and deter my newest cat, Panko from eating them or knocking them over. 

From left to right; jade, banana leaf plant which had completely died but for some reason we didn't get rid of the soil and the next thing we knew it had had three very healthy babies! Also there is a tradescantia on the right. 

The baby banana plants!

Lovely jade going strong despite the no face figurine falling over. Panko has knocked bits of this plant off which we have propagated into new plants.

One windowsill, home to mostly baby plants and herbs. You can see I'm growing spring onions, basil, baby jade and begonia and some cacti.

There's also pilea, hoya, chives and a small bushy one which looks like a miniature money plant but I'm not sure what it is.  

A very sad looking christmas cactus in the rarely used living room :(

 

This cactus has taken residence in the bathroom.

Now onto my favourite room, my study! I've decorated this room. myself and some of my fav plants are in here. Here's a marble queen pothos. 

Beautiful begonia doing so well despite Panko breaking the whole stem of the plant clean off a few months back.

How those two usually sit together. 

A gorgeous plant from my lovely friend.

Think you've all seen this ZZ plant before!

Little cactus is happy enough..he never changes though, hmm.

I bought four plants from a website, this tradescantia, the hoya in the kitchen and two that died straight away. This one isn't looking great.

It isn't the original santa but it is a healthy santa type cactus.

Just look at this big guy! He's doing very well and growing long. 

Love this baby and she'd doing really well. New leaves all the time, monstera adansonii. 

Variegated monstera baby. This has taken a year to get a new leaf. I'm hoping with time it'll show more white patches on newer leaves. 

Happy on the shelf with Groke and Coal the soft friends.

Better look at the leaves.

A failed attempt at a new leaf?

Now into the attic aka the room my fiance spends most of his free time. Here we have a propagated jade  and a cactus.

Another very healthy looking monstera up here.

Golden pothos and string of pearls

Zoomed out version...

Well I hope you enjoyed the plant tour! 

New home

Hi all of you, so two weeks ago we moved into our first home! We had truly outgrown the flat so the move was well overdue. Now we have plenty of room to expand our plant range, here's some old and new plants in their new locations.

Golden pothos in the attic

Lovely and strong cactus doing well, in the attic

Delicate begonia in the bathroom, luckily there is a huge window

This little guy was the only survivor of three cactus that were together in a pot.
He's in the living room window for now

Christmas cactus doing well on the dining table, next to some pink roses

A selection of plants on the butchers block. The one that looks like Santa is a replacement as the original one died.

A huge banana plant which was a housewarming gift from my mum and is currently awaiting a canvas pot. He sits in the kitchen for now. 

Jade getting huge, the new hoya heart, an offspring from a plant and a monstera propogating. This is in the kitchen.

Pilea and friends in the other kitchen window.

Baby jade surrounded by all the creatures, a propogating variegated monstera and others

My lovely big monstera that sadly lost a few leaves in the summer after I took some rubbish advice from a plant group and put her outside for a sunbathe - she actually got sunburnt and I had to cut off 5 or 6 black leaves 😔

A picture of everyone on the kitchen shelf together.

My study shelf. the one on the right is the one whose baby is in the floral pot in the kitchen.