Flower power

I don’t have many indoor plants. I would love more, but with Barbarians, a dog, pots on the decks (12) and a large garden, I don’t have enough time for more plants at the moment. As a result, we only have 3 pot plants in the house (and one of those is a cactus, the other a succulent).

I have a pot plant on my desk. I’ve had it for quite a long time, but it very rarely flowers. I think, in part, it’s because my office is in a room with a south facing window so it never gets sunlight.

It is right against the window and I can tell it seeks the light because I have to turn it every few months when all the leaves are pressed against the window.

But over the last couple of days I noticed a beautiful pink “leaf” forming and uncurling and I knew I had a flower coming.

Today it finally opened. It is only tiny but I think it is all the more pretty for that.

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My anthurium flower 🙂

Do you have indoor plants? Do they flower?

12 comments on “Flower power

  1. Giggling Fattie

    May 26, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    So pretty!! I had a succulent when I was living in Korea the second time. But I got bored with it and was convinced it was attracting bugs into my 3rd floor apartment. It could have just been because it was summer but I blame the plant. No plants after that.

    Ps: sorry if two almost identical comments pop up, my browser timed out with the first one so I typed again haha

    • Did the bugs vanish with the plant? I couldn’t imagine not having any indoor plants. One day (in my dream house because I can have everything I want in my dream house) I will have loads of indoor plants. But for now my desk plant will have to do.

  2. Congratulations to you and your flower!

    • Thanks, Jacqui. I wish I knew what I had done differently this year for it to flower!

    • Thanks, Liz. It is very pretty but a lot smaller than I think the flowers should be. It’s only about an inch across.

  3. Giggling Fattie

    May 27, 2020 at 7:49 am

    Oooo what else do you get in your dream house?!

    I think the bugs did leave. The apartment was so bad, so it could have just been the apartment lol

    • Hah, I have designed layout, features and everything. Maybe I should write a post about it. The dream house I’m happiest with is on my dream block of land, lol. I’m about to start designing a new house for the block of land we are on now though – you know, for when I inherit that fortune from the distant relative I don’t know I have *wink*.

  4. Giggling Fattie

    May 27, 2020 at 7:57 am

    Oh yes you should definitely make a post!! And also add lots of pictures haha

  5. I have a few houseplants, but lately I haven’t had much luck with them. I once had an anthurium, and the flowers lasted forever. But after they were gone, it never bloomed again. I finally gave up on it. I’m glad yours made a tiny flower for you!

    • Oooh, I hope this flower lasts a while. That’s why at the moment we have a cactus (kitchen bench) and a succulent (Jeckle’s desk) because it’s easy to have success with them (although the cactus is yet to flower).

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