Mini-plants

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"Good morning Anne, I received the mini plants & i think they're so cute. Thank you for your help, for such a short notice order. Hollis, New York"

We’re having a cold, nasty January. Temperatures aren’t bad – around 2-3°C – but it’s been foggy for days. Which means it’s been a miserable, damp type of cold and everything is grey and dark. Summer mist can be beautiful. Winter fog isn’t.

Needless to say not much is happening on the balcony, and I’m getting itchy. I want to get going again, but know it’s too early. So when I saw these mini-houseplants in the supermarket yesterday, all at 1,50€, I didn’t stand a chance of resisting. They were being sold separately, but I loved the contrasting leaf colours and thought they’d look good together. And bought them.

Dangerous. Because I had no idea what they were and what conditions they needed. The supermarket label announced that they were “piantine verdi” – small green plants. Wow, that’s helpful. Did they need the same type of soil? Did they like the same amount of water. No idea. Buying plants without knowing what they are is, of course, the one thing you should never do. But you do, don’t you? Please tell me it’s not just me.Anyway, once home, out came my wonderful, very old and very well thumbed houseplant book*. And I think I’ve managed to identify them all (I think – tell me if you disagree). They are, starting with the plant with the pink leaves at the back (weren’t these supposed to be small green plants?) and moving around in clockwise order :

1. The Polka Dot plant (Hypoestes phyllostachya also known as H. sanguinolenta) : Originally from Madagascar and likes warmth and humidity. No problem. Is also happy in shade good. My living room gets very little natural light. Can grow up to 2ft, so need their growing tips pinched out to stop them becoming straggly. Still no problem ..

2. Ivy (Hedera) : Well, OK, I didn’t really need to look this one up. Good in situations of poor light (phew!) and doesn’t seem to be fussy about anything else.

3. The Aluminium plant (Pilea cadierei) : I think this might be my favourite of the five – I loved the contrasting green and grey of the leaves. Native to Vietnam and sensitive to magnesium deficiency – needs a good dose of Epsom salts occasionally (a teaspoon in a pint of water.) That can be arranged. Likes a moist soil – no problems so far.

4. This one caused me a few problems. I couldn’t find it at all. However, when I turned to the net it popped up on Plants are the Strangest People. It’s a Peperomia, though I’ve not been able to identify the variety. My houseplant book does list them, but there are around 1,000 species in the genus and, not surprisingly, mine wasn’t the one they’d chosen to illustrate. Doesn’t like to be too moist and not keen on humidity.

5. Pellonia (possibly Pellonia daveauava – try spelling that without looking three times) : Again likes warmth, humidity and moist soil.

So – the only problem might be the Peperomia, which seems to like cooler, drier conditions than the rest. Could have been worse, I suppose…

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