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11-20-2006, 05:29 PM
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I'm starting to collect bromeliads and a few streptocarpus, of all things...
Outdoors, anything that has edible fruit.
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11-20-2006, 11:25 PM
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Whats a streptocarpus? Guess I'll go and look it up huh 
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11-21-2006, 01:00 AM
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I have a bromeliad, a couple of clivia's, a tuberous begonia, a fern and some succulents.
Succulents are cool.
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11-21-2006, 09:01 AM
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I'm addicted to plants.  Inside, besides my 50+ orchids, I have 10 Christmas cactus of various colors (although I killed my yellow one last year so I need to replace it), about 4 different lipstick plants, and african violets. Outdoors, I grow anything and everything, though a majority of what I do is to attract butterflies/hummingbirds in the summer and then birds in the fall/winter. Now that I've moved, I have a fresh palate to work with  , so I'm excited for spring!
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11-21-2006, 10:35 AM
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Streptocarpus is like african violet. Same family. Different flowers though. Supposedly (supposedly...) they will work well in vivariums. I haven't tried it yet.
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11-21-2006, 02:02 PM
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Mostly anything indoors or out. Indoors mostly heavier tropical green types (clivias, monstera , carnivorous plants, bird of paradise, antherium, etc) and I would like to grow a fig!
Outdoors I am particularily fond of plants that you don't usually associate with our climate (zone 3a) and mixed plantings of flower and edible plants (à la Disneyland).
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11-21-2006, 08:12 PM
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Bonsai! Outdoors I grow mostly native plants: spruces, firs, maples, birches, and a vegetable garden. Indoors I grow ficuses and schefflera, jades, and some standard tropical foliage plants, ferns and african violets.
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11-24-2006, 09:32 AM
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Up until recently, I had 50 "other" plants out on the lanai along with the 'chids. I've slowly been giving them away to friends because orchid real estate is at a premium!
I still have quite a few though...4 broms, 2 ferns, a hibiscus, a peperomia, a candycorn, a chenille, 2 potted palms, a Meyer lemon, a dwarf Bird-of-Paradise, a pothos, a scheff and a few miscellaneous that I can't come up with a name for. There are also 2 African Violets and a large cane-type plant (don't know the name) inside and too many to list for what's growing outside on the property. That's hubby's domain 
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11-24-2006, 11:42 AM
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Sue, giving away your 'other' plants.......your addiction grows stronger! 
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11-24-2006, 09:24 PM
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Let's hope you don't regret that decision Sue.
Sue, if you ever feel like giving away your Pothos, think of me. I'll buy from you at orchid prices!
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We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?"
Goblin Market
by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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