Category Archives: Plants

Just taking my new plant for a walk!

Check out the size of it!

My Alocasia Longiloba just gave me a new leaf and it’s MASSIVE!

Just an update! All the plants survived the winter, but some are struggling now with the extreme heat when the sun hits my apartment in the afternoon. Some plants are definitely doing better than others. The Monstera Albo is doing especially well (2 new leaves!) and has become one of my fave plants.

5 months in. Have never taken off the lid! Everything is growing well!

Just an update!

Everything inside the cabinet is growing strong. Have yet to kill a plant and yet to have any sort of pests either. I’m still upset that I’ve lost the jungle vibe by removing plants that just got too big (they’re all doing great outside of the cabinet though despite it being winter in Sydney atm). It’s looking more like a grow out cabinet now than a true display, but hey, nothing much I can do about that!

I removed the Queen Anthurium from the cabinet though. Not because it got too big, just because it’s the one plant I’ve not ben able to grow right, and I got sick of looking at it’s imperfect leaves.

Rex Begonia.

Queen of Hearts (Homalomena ‘Maggie’).

Alex from More Plants (my local plant store) is back from her 3 week trip overseas so I thought I’d drop by yesterday to say hello, and of-course, to buy some plants!

I ended up buying 2 plants I never thought I’d ever buy, and know very little about, but hey the cabinet is full of aroids and Mia is very much leaving all the plants outside of the cabinet alone, so I figured that A) I can add more plants to the lounge room where I spend most of my time and B) I can start looking into keeping plants other than aroids!