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    I'm doing reasonably ok with my outdoor stuff (given the weather) but I am failing dismally to keep anything alive indoors. Apart from a few herbs on the window sill, I can't keep any houseplants alive. I don't know whether I'm just making bad choices of what sort of plants to have, but I was really hoping to have some flowering plants indoors for a splash of colour. I don't have much room but want to have one plant in the kitchen window and another in the bathroom. I guess the bathroom is the trickiest one to crack as the light will be reduced due to the frosted glass in the windows.

    So far I've had a begonia in the kitchen window but the flowers fell off almost as soon as they formed and it ended up leaning so far to one side it just collapsed (I should have supported it sooner - by the time I realised this it was too late). I also had a pot chrysanthemum in the bathroom but it was dead as a dodo after about 2 weeks. Then I bought a lovely yellow gerbera for the bathroom but the flowers started to shrivel up within a few days and have now all died.

    Are there any flowering plants that will survive being indoors with the fluctuating temperatures of kitchen and bathroom? Those are really the only places where a plant will get any decent light in my flat. should I give up on flowers and go for non flowering plants? Or just accept that anything I buy will not last longer than buying cut flowers and will have to be replaced regularly?

  • #2
    What are you doing to them? How often do you water them and how are you doing it?

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    • #3
      I find foliage plants more successful as houseplants rather than flowering ones. Loads to choose from - spiderplants, cacti if you're not too good at watering regularly, Swiss cheese plant etc, etc.

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      • #4
        For the bathroom you could try orchids, they seem to like the damp air. A massive maidenhair fern is taking over my bath!
        Pot chrysanthemums never live long with me either but I would have thought the moist bathroom air would be the last thing they'd enjoy! I'd have a herb plant on the kitchen window

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        • #5
          I'm rubbish at houseplants too, but I did get lots of good tips from this book (from my library), and I now have a peace lily in flower
          All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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          • #6
            I am watering them and they seem healthy in terms of the compost being neither dry nor waterlogged, plus the foliage seem healthy. It's just the flowers that always wither up and die very quickly. I can't work out whether it's insufficient light, wrong temperature or what. Maybe I should just stick to herbs - they seem to do ok on the window sill.

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            • #7
              Chrysanthemums are not really indoor plants. Most flowers will wither and die fairly quickly, which is why I suggested foliage plants for indoors.

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              • #8
                I think I will give orchids a go. I didnt think of those and I've discovered they are cat friendly (ie not particularly toxic to cats) so I'll see how I get on with an orchid or two! Otherwise it will be foliage only for me indoors.

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                • #9
                  I have a Christmas cactus and an African violet in the bathroom - as long as they aren't over watered they seem to do ok for me.
                  Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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