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I grow, besides Orchids, some varieties of
-Aroids (Typhonium, a few Anthurium sp., Alocasia other common house plants in the family).
-I also grow 1 Gesneriad (Seemania sylvatica) and am looking to expand my collection.
-Stapeliads and alliesDischidia, Mondia, and Hoya carnosa, and Stapelia gigantea, though I have seen no blooms from this one in a few years.
-Ficus pumila which I have trained into an unsightly column of leaves with a very thick vine inside one of my terrrariums. Will this ever bloom or fruit??
-A nice little collection of Ericads such as Tropical Rhododendrons (Vireyas) of the small growing varieties. Among the Ericads I have a nice collection of tropical blueberries, Macleania glabra and M. insignis. Agapetes smithii and A. serpens. Ceratostema rauhii, and Disterigma rimbachii. As well as Sphyrospermum buxifolium which is a nice vine with hairy blueberries. I also have a native blueberry stem that I have managed to get to root. Not sure what to do with it now though.
-I have a small collection of succulents, most of whose names I don't know, but I have a common Sedum and also Jade.
-I recently purchased a cinnamon tree sapling, hoping to grow it indoors.
-Had a Fuchsia but I let it get too dry and hot in June and it died. Shame too as it was in full bloom. But I will no doubt be trying them again.
-Mints. I have one Plectranthus 'Mona Lavender' (P. saccatus x P. hilliardiae) (a member of the Mint family) with some nice blue blooms, always in bloom. Also I have Clerodendrum thomsoniae which I am always have to prune, but blooms for me about once a year. I grow it indoors too.
- I have some Rain lillies which have been blooming for me indoors for the last month and a half.
-I have one dutchman's pipe yet to bloom. Dries out all too quickly so I struggle always to water it enough to bring it back from death.
-Bromeliads. I grow a few Bromiliads inside my vivariums, not species though. I also have a number of Tillandsias, mostly T. ionantha species and one beautiful Cryptanthus (pink in colour).

You really have a great collection. I think your cinnamon will do fine as you grow a wide variety of other exotics and understand how to research and adapt for indoor growing. Theobroma (chocolate) grows well indoors, too. It likes shade, has a small root system....

Where did you get the Cinnamonum? is it C. verum or C. aromaticum?

I bought mine at Logees, located in Ct. They don't always have it so I had to keep checking. I like Logees as the plants always arrive healthy and are packed very carefully for shipping. It should be the Cinnamomum zeylanicum.

Besides orchids, I grow 2 Hoyas, a Medenilla Magnifica, Night blooming Cereus, 2 Staghorn ferns, 1 Anthurium lily, a spider plant, 2 Clivias, 1 desert rose. Used to have more variety but found they kind of languished cos I spend so much time on the 'chids.

Used to have more variety but found they kind of languished cos I spend so much time on the 'chids.[/QUOTE]

I can certainly identify with that.

I have a slightly limited collection of houseplants, because my mother won't let me grow more than six (Yes I know I have seven, before you point it out) houseplants at any one time. I currently have:

1 Pelargonium 'Octavia'
1 orchid noid
1 crazy Amaryllis who has decided to flower in August

1 Fuchsia
1 Ivy
1 Fern
1 Honeysuckle

By the way, Leafmite; my copy of The House Plant Expert says that if buds appear on your Hoya, do not disturb any of the buds, or they will fall off.

In my house I have a Hoya, a Hippeastrum (commonly, but incorrectly, known as amaryllis), a Jade, a Weeping Fig, and something that said 'Dragon Plant' on the tag, not sure what it except that it's taller than me.

I also have several butterworts and a pitcher plant, which were all bought to catch the fungus gnats that like my orchids.

Lots of things in the garden, but I especially love the Fushias (a hardy variety which dies back to nothing in the heavy frost but comes back up every year), the monbretia, lupins, and I seem to have a lot of hebes of various colours and especially love the variegated leaf ones though the solid coloured leaf ones seem to do better in the frosts.

I love 'The House Plant Expert', by Dr. D.G. Hessayon. It is a great book. The only thing the book neglects (for the most part) is soil pH. I also have 'The Hyponex Handbook of House Plants' which is an older one.
Thank you for the hoya tips. Someday....

Hi Stefpix, its Cinnamomum zeylanicum.