My Walking Iris had two blooms this week which was a very welcome sight. I have several more buds so more beauty to come.
If you aren’t familiar with the Walking Iris, the Laidback Gardener blog recently did a very good post on it.
I’m not a big house plant person. There are three pots of Walking Iris in that rattan planter with the middle pot containing about a dozen small plants that I’ll pot up individually and donate to our May plant sale. The plant on the right is 45 years old, and I’m beginning to think it will outlive me and have to be willed to my daughter. 🙂
Happy Friday!
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They are loving the longer daylight!
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Yes, they are. 🙂
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A 45-year-old houseplant? I’m in awe. As a usual thing, my houseplants don’t last 45 minutes! These photos are beautiful and especially welcome in this everlasting gloom. Every so often the sun comes out and just can’t take it and disappears again. So your summery blue and white, so gorgeously echoed in the iris, is a great beginning to my day. Thank you!
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It is a beautiful bloom and even more special because it lasts 24 hours and is gone. That 45 year-old plant was in a dish of plants that was gifted to us. It survived beyond the others, and has been trimmed when it hits the ceiling and move from house to house all those years. It sits there in the corner soaking up some sun and seems to defy the odds. I can’t help but keep it going at this point. 🙂
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Gardeners really do respond to the stories in plants; we’ve talked about that with our outdoor gardens. It is reasonable that houseplants would tell stories too, but I hadn’t thought about that parallel much. It grows to the ceiling — wow. My green-thumbed friend Donna has an indoor bougainvillea that has threatened to take over their entire home from time to time. These are seriously happy plants!
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I just love seeing your Walking Iris. A feast for my old eyes on this cold, gray and windy morning. I’m LOL that your daughter will inherit your now 45 year old plant. Most marriages don’t last 45 years!
Hmmmm, you have such a magnificent green thumb, have you ever thought about planting money! Just sayin’….
Hope a pleasant weekend is ahead for you. Crazy weather next few days (what else is new?) and apparently snow/ice Tuesday and Wednesday. Well, we’re still better off than other parts of the country.
Ginger
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Don’t you have a money tree? I have a friend with one, maybe I need to ask for a starter plant. 🙂
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Between the non-green thumbs and the cats we’ve had in this house, plants rarely made it through the event they were purchased for. 45 years? Wow. That’s remarkable. The blooms are so pretty. Some much needed color at this time of year.
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Yes, the color is much needed, and I just chuckle at that plant. I have no idea what keeps it growing, but it’s tenacity does make me smile.
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This is gorgeous. Makes one wonder how the plant came to be – what made the plant develop this particular colouring and patterning. 45 years? Impressive!
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The plant was gifted to me from a gentleman who was given it from a friend in Chile. My friend has passed, but the blooms bring his friendship to mind and make me smile. The old plant, well, who cannot get a chuckle out of a plant that has survived that long and moved from house to house and state to state. 🙂
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What a lovely way to remember a friend.
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As good as I am an outdoor gardener, I’m dreadful with houseplants. I have pothos that are at least 20 years old and that’s what I can handle. Right now I have an orchid that is ready to rebloom (after nine months of looking pitiful) and a Christmas cactus I’m trying to train. Oh yeah, and cat grass. Something always happens. Last summer I had a bad case of fungus gnats so everything went outside for a while. I want to try a spider plant. I fear they look too much like grass and my cats will munch on it.
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I am good outside as well but not much interest or skills with houseplants. Man, fungus gnats are the most annoying things. I found these yellow sticky things on Amazon that I keep in the big plant just in case one starts flying around. With only those few plants, I’m good until I plant seedlings and then I have issues.
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The iris is so beautiful! Just what we need this time of year. My Christmas orchid is still going strong and delights my kitchen sink and all who linger there!
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Any blooming plant this time of year sure is welcome. We’re going below zero again tonight. I hope March brings in an early spring for us all.
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Well below tomorrow night. I’m ready, and thinking this is winter’s last gasp! There was a flurry of sugarmaking, but I doubt the sap is running today!
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Thanks for starting my Friday with these beautiful flowers! 45 years! Wow!
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My pleasure. 🙂
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I always look forward to reading your emal Claudette
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Hello, my friend! I think of you daily as I admire a piece of your beautiful hand work that I have hanging on a door that I pass multiple times in a day. You are never far from my thoughts. ❤️
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How wonderful! I have one and love its delicate markings and scent. I see a bud coming, watching to make sure I don’t miss its short bloom!
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That is wonderful that you have one, and you sure do have to track those buds so you don’t miss the bloom. They are so unique and special.
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What beautiful blooms. I am in need of flower therapy. Our bougainvillea and a lantana were hit hard by frost. They will come back but no blooms for a while.
A 45 year old house plant… whoa!
Happy Friday!
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Along the way, I’ve thought about getting rid of it, and then I think about how it has persevered, and I just can’t do it. 🙂
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Your Iris looks beautiful. I’ve only got on live house plant which I have had since 2017. It’s the longest living plant I’ve had. I can’t imagine having one live for 45 years!
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I know, it is bizarre. It keeps plugging along, and I don’t have the heart to give it a heave ho. Every time I water it, I am amazed it is still living.
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That’s how I feel about the one house plant I have. I did have to repot it last year to a bigger pot and wondered if it would survive the transplant and it has! I don’t even know what the plant is! 😂 It’s big leaf plant with pink and green variegated leaves.
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What beautiful flowers! ❤️
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Thank you, and thanks for stopping.
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I’m not familiar with the Walking Iris and it is beautiful. You have a 45 years old houseplant? Oh that is too wacky and wonderful for words!
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It is crazy, and it just happened one year at a time because that plant just keeps on wanting to survive. In one house, I had to cut it back because it hit the ceiling. It certainly gives me thought when it comes to persevering.
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Flowers are certainly welcome at this time of year and that is a stunner. Wow!
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It’s a strange plant. An indoor Iris that blooms for one day like a daylily, but it’s a beauty.
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What a beautiful iris and unusual method of propagation! Thank you for the link to https://laidbackgardener.blog.
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It is certainly a unique propagation method. I always wonder if it will work agin, and it does every time.
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Beautiful!
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Small, one day gift, but it sure is enjoyed.
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Happy Friday to you also.. This plant is certainly a treasure.
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It certainly perks me up this time of year. You’ve been busy this month. I wish you had a ‘like’ button on your posts because I visit and read but don’t always comment. Since I downsized a while back I’m not a cookbook collector, but I appreciate those who do. My daughter collects so I passed mine on to her. 🙂
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Thanks Judy. I need to figure out where that like button went.
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I remember having tons of houseplants when I was younger… probably because I was living in apartments at the time. Now, I prefer my plants to be outside, mostly so I don’t risk ruining the floor by over-watering. But, that Walking Iris is gorgeous… I just might make an exception with that one. Happy Friday, Judy!
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You made me smile remembering my younger days as well and all the small plants that I had all over the place. These days I much prefer tending plants outdoors as well.
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What a beauty!
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That beauty is certainly appreciated in between snow storms. 🙂
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Yes, February has made up for the lack of snow in January.
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A 45 year old indoor plant – that must be a world record! I only have one plant inside and it’s a tiny one in a tiny pot. I did have a beautiful begonia out in our pergola which my sister gave me. It was flourishing and covered in flowers. And then we got weeks and weeks of rain and all the leaves went mouldy. I’ve been trying to save it but I think it’s on its last legs. I’m a bit sad about it.
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I like begonias so I’m sorry yours got hit with too much water. It always kinds of tugs at your heartstrings when you lose a plant someone gave you.
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It was more the moisture in the air than getting too much water in the soil. It was foggy for days. I probably should have brought it inside. I’m going to see if I can find a replacement.
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Your Walking Iris looks lovely. Plants are particularly special if they are given to you as a gift, or just from one gardener to another. Enjoy those pretty flowers.
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You are so right. When I work in the garden and see plants other gardeners have shared with me, it always brings back good memories and smiles.
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Judy, that plant on the right looks like a Parlor Palm to me. I often see it for sale at Home Depot in the house plant section. Impressive that you have had a houseplant for 45 years. Even more impressive is that beautiful bloom. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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It does look similar, but not a match. That being said, I should visit my local greenhouse and see if I can identify it. It came in a small dish of plants, and it just keeps on plugging along.
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Breathtaking. I haven’t seen one of those in quite some time.
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When it blooms in the dead of winter with all the landscape colored white, it sure is a welcome sight.
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That’s beautiful and quite different. Well, I rather AM a houseplant person, possibly because I can’t effectively manage a garden. I think we are going to try growing tomatoes and peppers in pots this year. We have the right (flannel) pots, so all we need are plants and dirt. We are contemplating what KIND of dirt to get. But since we are growing things out back anyway, why not grow some things we can also eat? That is if the squirrels, chipmunks, and birds don’t get them first.
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You have beautiful houseplants. The flannel pots work great and are certainly lightweight. They do need more frequent watering, but you are outside regularly so that shouldn’t be an issue. Keeping those red tomatoes from your local four-legged visitors could be more of a challenge. I wish you good luck because there is nothing like a fresh tomato.
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I’m told the chipmunks are crazy about tomatoes, but only eat part of them and leave the rest. But I think the bobcat recently ate the chipmunks, so maybe they chipmunks won’t eat the tomatoes?
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Ah, the circle of life. 🙂 Thank you for a hearty chuckle.
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I have to admit, I don’t mind. The chipmunks are cute, but left to their own devices, you have two chipmunks and next time you look, they’ve taken over the yard and chatter at you when you go outside. Maybe the coyotes, fishers or hawks — helped finish them off. The hawks are very fond of rabbit. We have a lot of fanged critters very nearby. As long as they don’t eat the tomatoes and no one tries to eat The Duke, they can eat each other.
I think something ate our woodchuck. I was kind of fond of that big plump woodchuck and used to throw him vegetables. I haven’t seen him in months. Maybe he moved to a new home? We’ve got some cozy dead logs out back…
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Gorgeous blooms! Laughing about the 45 year old plant. My parents have one like that… it grows into the flooring walls- up it and along it all on its own… like y’all this things going to strangle someone 🤣🤣
Great post!!
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Years ago, my husband and I use to frequent a restaurant in the Midwest that had a plant growing up to the ceiling, across the entire length of the restaurant and back down. It was always amazing to see it, and it was bright green and looked pretty healthy. Good plant genes I guess. 🙂
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Lol for sure, and maybe some coffee grinds too 🤣🤌🏾
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Wow! It bloomed beautifully!
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We’ve enjoyed four blooms in the past week and have a few more buds to await. Nice change from the white landscape. 🙂
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What an amazing houseplant, Judy! Truly remarkable!!
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It is certainly unique – a mass of green leaves all year and then those special blooms pop up for one day only. It’s fun to watch.
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