As I am repotting my babes this year, I'm trying to consolidate their displays... that is, I'm being more selective about pots I acquire and attempting to compose arrangements.
One of my favorite pots was this yardsale find, currently housing my Chinese evergreen. Since this plant doesn't need tremendous amounts of bright light, I have it on my buffet in the center of the room, approximately 10' from the nearest window, but surrounded by 6 windows on 3 sides.
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| Love this plant and love this pot. |
The next arrangement I'm looking at is on my over-the-couch shelf. Previously, I only had fake flowers on this shelf (pictured in the white vase on the left half). Since I have a couple spider plants doing well, I put them in stainless or chrome pots and set them on this shelf. We'll see how they do away from windows.
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| A muted color scheme for this wall. |
My plant shelf wall, next to some east and north windows, is being freed up. I used to stack tons and tons of plant in front of this, in an attempt to hide the pipes and to capitalize on the morning sun in this corner of the room. Instead, I've remove all but one side table, which now hosts a minimally loaded plant stand. I'd like to use all the same pot size on that stand, but for now my begonia is going to continue to live on the bottom shelf on the left. Also, I'm not sure where to put the black pot with my succulent grouping, since it's wide and shallow, it doesn't quite work on any shelves.
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| An extra side chair now breaks up the previously plant-packed corner. |
On the other side of my buffet, I have an arrangement of some small house plants and some floor sized plants. It's nice to group them together sometimes and have them feed off of each other's microclimate.
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| The braided umbrella tree is officially large enough to sit on the floor, fronted by a dragon tree. |
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| A better shot of a small grouping on my new buffet table. |
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