So raise your hand if you own a spider plant. Keep it up if it has babies. Continue to keep it up if you have given away tons of babies. Ok you can put it down now. I love my spider plants. And love it when they are producing babies. It means I am doing something right. Being a good gardener and plant care taker I would never want to kill a spider plant.....slow it's baby making down maybe but never kill........
But thats what I almost did to a few of my babies. Spider plants are indoor plants but even up here in New York they can benefit from a little time outside in the summertime. See mine were no longer producing any babies. They were just well just there. So putting them outside in the summer air helps them grow stronger and suddenly I had baby shoots all over the place. But then being in NY a frost came.....
As you can see it just about killed my plant. I have several containers of spider plants and some didn't make it...this one seems to be recovering but you can see it was quite full and was very pretty.
Todays lesson?:
Pay attention to the weather when you have indoor plants basking in the sun outside. Frost WILL kill a spider plant. Now if thats your goal yea for you!
Sorry it's been so long been having issues logging in and been busy. Going to school to get my business degree to go with
Irish Gardens, and was busy with the farmers markets. But I have lots to post about so get ready to learn some stuff and enjoy some pictures.
Ah, nice to meet another plant lover.
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in Michigan, we had a huge apartment where all of the windows faced east. And - because that didn't present a sufficient challenge to a plant junkie - were shaded (on the 3rd floor) by leafy, leafy, leafy trees.
Still, I managed to have more than 100 plants on tables and shelves, and in a myriad of handmade macrame hangers. Oh how I miss my babies.