I used to be crazy about them 10 years ago, like totally Then I got a cat and the plants got neglected, then I had some kids and the cat was free to a good home, and now I realise I have a couple of plants still that DID NOT die even after 10 years of neglect

I put one next to my computer and I think it is nice to have a living thing in here with me

I love having plants in the house...they really add something to a room.

ZombieKitten said:

only the gerbera my hubby just bought me

cats/kids and plants dont mix

nope

I had an Ivy in my first apartment. I got sick of watering it so I stopped.
It lived for like a year later

prb said:

my kids don't touch the cacti they learned that the hard way

ThreadCula said:

without water? you should get an artificial ivy

ZombieKitten said:

what happened to the kids???/

I really dont like greenery. I like flowers best I think.

I heard Ivy's are hard to kill,it took me awhile to murder it.

XxAxX said:

2 in school and one in the kitchen

ZombieKitten said:

"free to good home"

ThreadCula said:

I have a ponytail plant and I nearly killed it, they have their own water store, but mine has nearly collapsed from emptiness

XxAxX said:

ZombieKitten said:

I've always liked plants but I've always had artificial ones because I could never keep them alive. Now I have four plants that I brought home from my mother's funeral a few weeks ago. I have two peace lillies, a dieffenbachia, and a china doll. I've really been putting forth an effort to keep them alive because they mean something to me. Surprisingly, they seem to be doing quite well.....so far. I've got my fingers crossed.

vainandy said:

my condolences to you. A very good reason to keep them alive I don't think you have to do that much to them really, just give them a bit of liquid fertiliser a couple of times in the spring. My dieffenbachia got little white mites, so I had to treat it with white oil.

Yes I have a venus fly trap and this bamboo looking plant that I have in a fish tank that my beta fish lives in.

in my dorm room i have 4 big ones and counting...
until i run out of space
i love plants.

ThreadCula said:

you really have to try hard to kill ivy plants
i have two of them, my best

sammij said:

really I've managed to kill about 3 of them

Oooh! I did have this bamboo good luck tree. I loved it. I took good care of it.
My fiance hated it.

I went away for vacation and it "mysteriously" disappeared

ThreadCula said:

speaking of mysterious, while I was taking the dead leaves off my african violet, I found a key in there

ZombieKitten said:

Did u find a map too? It could lead to buried treasure

Yes.

But when I went away on vacation the person house sitting didn't water them and they are having a hard time making a comeback.

ThreadCula said:

it's an old-style key like this:

I want to, but I always kill them.

sammij said:

i have these types they're called devil's ivy but who's to say


and the second one is a variation of that, the leaves actually look like hearts..they're so pretty
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sammij said:

devils ivy I had a couple of those and killed them as well

sammij said:

Yeah,I had one like that. It got really long.
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ZombieKitten said:

that's remarkable! they're impossible to kill!
use miracle grow they sprout like weeds!

sammij said:

I think I overwatered them, well intentioned I was