1. makes you look like a grown up
2. proves that you can keep something alive
3. improves air quality
4. is pretty
I have a loooot of house plants, but these are my favorite varieties that can do ok with indirect window light and not die all over the place.
These aren't really that rare and they don't do much, but it is fun because all of a sudden you'll see a long new growth and then it will unfurl sideways into leaves.
I got my aloe in the mail from an internet friend whose plant had too many babies, and it's been growing like gangbusters.
I've replanted 4 of its babies so far and given a few away.
Healthiest, easiest plant in the world to grow.
Also, I forgot I didn't have any more lotion when I got a sunburn, and just used the goo straight from my plant's leaves.
In the glass studio where I learned to solder, we had tons of aloe plants to use for all the accidentally burned students.
Mine is hot pink. For most of the year, it just looks like a whatever boring houseplant. Then when it starts to bloom, you just can't believe how many flowers it has- it looks like hawaiian fireworks or something!
For a while at my first real office job, I wanted only fuzzy plants. I would pet them and call them my "friends." I think it was some sort of adjustment period. Don't judge me.
Anyway, most of my friends died, but my purple passion is still going.
It's a vine, so it gets really leggy. When it does, though, I just cut off the top part right below a leaf node and replant that piece, and then you have two shorter plants. Works surprisingly well.
When the leaves are younger, they are more fuzzy and purple.
These mofos are totally unkillable.
I saw a discarded one with only 1 leaf on the street, brought it home thinking it might be an orchid, and then it recovered and is a totally healthy snake plant. Oh well.
House plants I dont like:
Jade plants
Spider plants
Pothos
Bamboo
I can't really explain why, but I think they are trashy and pedestrian. Like the equivalent of a college student's Escher poster. I would normally include snake plants in that list too, but I have one now so I should start liking it more.
We have two snake plants because I kill plants lol. I put them in lovely pots and actually get tons of compliments and questions about it. I wasn't in love with it when I bought it, but it grew on me, and better yet didn't die.
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