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Showing posts with label tropical plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tropical plants. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

My First New Houseplant at Our New Home

First New Houseplant at Our New HomeOctober 12, 2011

The beauty of houseplants is aside of adding life and vitality to a room while softening the hard edges of the room is they can be used to camouflage those little room idiosyncrasies that can be a bit annoying.  When the Bell satellite television installer ran our lines he made the assumption we would place the television in the corner thus

Monday, May 10, 2010

Calla Lily (Zantedischia)

Calla Lily (Zantedeschia)May 7, 2010
My husband surprised me with a Calla Lily on the weekend.   Calla lilies are not actual lilies but rather are comprise of 28 herbaceous flowing plant species in the Zantedschia genus originating in the marshlands of South Africa.   They are actually considered weeds there!  They grow from bulbs (rhizomes) that spread by producing more bulbs.  The new bulbs can