Plants are solar powered air purifiers whose filter never needs replacing. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen.

 Houseplant forum

Houseplant Forum

Members brought in a wide variety of indoor plants and spoke about them.

 Amanda’s Billbergia 

 

Judith’s Pot et Fleur at bottom of photo; a Victorian idea which combines living house plants with cut flowers, allowing you to create sustainable floral arrangements in one container. Judith has Dahlia Moonflower, Coleus, Heliotrope, Geranium and a Kalanchoe

Norma brought a Begonia at top of photo with colourful leaves which she first saw gracing the hearths at Burton Agnes Hall. She demonstrated how to propagate this plant by making slits in a leaf, placing on compost and weighing down with a stone until rooted.

 

Derek’s Golden Barrel cactus, grown from a seed picked up in Tenerife. Derek told us that, just because a cactus or succulent can survive in a dry climate, it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t water or feed it regularly and his plant is proof of this.

 

 Maggie’s Echinocactus fictus which, obviously, doesn’t need watering ever!

 

 Carol brought an Episcia cupreata Strawberry Fields

 Ann brought a Calathea/Prayer Plant

 Linda’s Asplenium antiquum (the Bird’s Nest Plant) and was told to water it more frequently to avoid the leaves turning brown.

Display Table

 

Dorothy’s bouquet included double white Lilac, Aubretia, Clematis Montana, Acer palmatum atropupureum, Centaura cyanus, Spanish Bluebells and a white Bluebell.

 Trevor brought his five bulbs of Narcissus Baby Boomer which have only just flowered, although not all of them!

Next Meeting

15^th May: A presentation by Hilary Hutson called “The Adventurous Gardener”.