The Moss Rose is a short stemmed perennial plant which typically flowers during late spring and early summer. Here’s a good website with more information about this plant.
My Moss Roses
This pot has 2 different plants, one with orange bloom, the other with white bloom. At the peak of its bloom, it reached 15-20 flowers of both colours and the entire pot was covered with flowers, densely packed.
Moss Rose
This plant requires very little maintenance except pruning of dead branches. No fertilisation is necessary.
I water it between twice a week during peak winters and every day during peak summers.
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I inherited a money plant (a type of philodendron) from my parents when they moved to to a different city. I re-potted it into a much bigger pot, mixed and matched it with a few different species which resulted in the below.
Philodendron Cluster
This pot is neatly tucked away between my bedroom window and the air conditioner, and has three different plants.
The big, dark green leaves belong to a species of Golden Pothos, which has only 4/5 leaves per plant right now, but are bigger than average money plant leaves, about the size of a ternager’s hand. One cut of this plant also lives in the middle pot of the bottom row of my plant wall.
The smaller, dark green leaves belong to another species of Golden Pothos, which most people can relate to as the common money plant.
The smaller, light green leaves belong to a species of Heartleaf Philodendron. Two cuts of this plant also live in the left and right pots of the bottom row of my plant wall.
View from bedroom
You can cut off branches and pot them and they grow into full-sized plants, as long as there’re some roots left.
These plants require little to no maintenance. The only thing I do occasionally is use cable ties to prop up its branches and attach them to the moss stick. Eventually, the cable ties can be removed once the plants roots burrow into the moss stick.
This pot is kept in partial shade and the plants get 2/3 hours of sunlight late afternoons during the summers and no direct sunlight during the winters.
I water them once a week during the winters and alternate days during the summers. Although they don’t require much fertiliser, I fertilise them every 2 months, which encourages leaf growth.
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The Lanceleaf Blanketflower is a seasonal wildflower plant which lasts during the summer. Here’s a good website with more information about this plant.
Lanceleaf Blanketflower
I keep this in direct sunlight. The flowers start out as fuzzy balls and then blossom into the beautiful firewheel shape you see below.
Fuzzball
Flower
Flowers
This plant requires almost no maintenance except occasional fertilizing.
I water it every day during peak summers. I fertilize it every 2 months or depending on when it shows signs of growth.
It will probably die off in a few months, but the beautiful flowers are worth it., while they last.
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The Aloe Vera is a stem-less perennial plant which typically flowers during the summer. Here’s a good website with more information about this plant.
My Aloe Vera
One day, I noticed a smaller aloe vera plant growing along with the original one in the same pot, so I transplanted it to a smaller pot.
Little Sister
I keep the big one in direct sunlight and the little one in partial shade.
This plant requires almost no maintenance except occasional fertilizing.
I water it between twice a week during peak winters and every day during peak summers. I fertilize it every 2 months or depending on when it shows signs of growth.
If you cut or puncture one of the leaves, a sticky gel comes out and the cut tip fuses in a few days and self heals. I believe I am supposed to put the gel on my skin when I get sunburnt, but the Lockdown doesn’t allow me to get one.
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The Narrowleaf Zinnia is a seasonal flowering plant. I got this one early in March and it bloomed recently, with a few other flowers on the way.
My Narrowleaf Zinnia
This is a perennial plant which blooms late spring and stays in bloom for a few weeks (I hope it stays this way over the summers).
Bloom!
This plant requires almost no maintenance except occasional fertilizing.
I keep this in direct sunlight.
I water it between twice a week during peak winters and every day during peak summers. I fertilize it every 2 months or depending on when it shows signs of growth.
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The Flaming Katy is a very hardy flowering plant. I recently started with a pink coloured one and then got a red one followed by a yellow one. Here’s a good website with more information about this plant.
White-Pink Katy
This is a perennial plant which blooms late winters and early spring and stays in bloom for weeks at end (Mine are still going strong after 2 months now). The colours are vibrant and look very beautiful.
Red Katy
These plants require almost no maintenance except occasional fertilizing.
Red-Yellow Katy
I keep the Flaming Katy in direct sunlight.
I water them between twice a week during peak winters and every day during peak summers. I fertilize them every 2 months or depending on when they show signs of growth.
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I inherited some small/sickly shrubs from my parents when they moved to to a different city. I re-potted them into a bigger pot and it grew tenfold in a span of a few weeks and bloomed.
This, below, is a Crown of Thorns. Very hardy shrubs, they don’t care where you put them, how much sunshine they get or how frequently you water them.
The mother shrub
The best part is, you can cut off any of the branches and pot them and they grow into full-sized plants. Some of them are part of my plant wall (bottom row).
The flowers are in perpetual bloom all year round.
Bathroom Desert Rose
The 2 above are on different bathroom window sills.
These plants require absolutely no maintenance.
The first one is kept in partial shade, the other 2 get direct sunlight via windows 3-4 hours in the summers.
I water them once a week or less. Although they don’t require any fertiliser, I fertilise them every 2 months, which encourages leaf growth.
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I grew the common Fenugreek from seeds that my daughter brought from school. I planted them around an inch deep of moist soil and within days, they sprouted.
Common Fenugreek
The first few inches of the plant are a bit soft/weak and require some support. The top part is quite rigid and self sufficient.
This plant requires almost no maintenance.
I keep this in direct sunlight.
This plant is a vociferous water drinker and its leaves start drooping if you even miss 1 watering session. I water it between twice a week during peak winters and every day during peak summers. I fertilize it every 2 months or depending on when it shows signs of growth.
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My Palms are perhaps my most favourite plants of all. As a guy who loves the beach and tropical climates, I find that the Palms bring a bit of the tropical paradise in my home.
My favourite Palm
This Parlor Palm above is my favourite. It is in good health, growing steadily. I love watching its leaves sway gently in the breeze from my window.
Another Parlor Palm and a Dragon Tree
Shown above is another Parlor Palm on a different balcony along with a Dragon Tree.
These plants require some maintenance, basically only troweling the top soil once in a while, clipping off brown leaves. Although these plants are meant to be kept indoors, I prefer to keep them on my balconies, partly because of space concerns and especially because I love their leaves swaying in the wind.
The first one is kept in partial shade, the other 2 get direct sunlight 3-4 hours in the summers.
I water them between once or twice a week during peak winters and alternate days/everyday during peak summers. I fertilise them every 2 months or depending on when they show signs of growth.
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The bottom row has 3 Golden Pothos (A Money plant with light coloured leaves), the middle one also has a Heartleaf Philodendron which is a different variety of money plant with bigger & darker leaves. Also, their tips are a vibrant orange/red before they spout leaves.
All the plants are in partial shade.
All the plants are very low maintenance, but especially the cacti, which require next to no water or maintenance. Still they bloom all year round with pretty little flowers.
I water them all between once a week during peak winters and alternate days during peak summers. For the shrubs, only a few ml at a time. I fertilise them all once every 2 months.
Next on the list would be to expand it a bit during the summers. Maybe alternate the small and big plants so that the bigger ones get more sunlight.
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