Developing from ceiling-, floor-, or wall-containers describes:
- philodendrons;
- radiator-plants.
Extending downward or outward epitomizes:
- aloe;
- echeveria, English ivy;
- houseleek;
- jade-plant;
- mistletoe-cactus;
- nerve-plant;
- pilea;
- stonecrop, string-of-pearls;
- wax-plant.
Flourishing gravitationally or phototropically favors flamingo-flowers. Growing phototropically or vertically graces:
- bougainvillea;
- king-begonia;
- Mexican breadfruit;
- umbrella-tree.
In contrast, hanging down from ceiling-planters helps:
- agave;
- ball-seaweed, begonia;
- club-moss, creeping-fig;
- purple-heart;
- rock-foil;
- staghorn-fern;
- wax-flower, wire-vine.
Irradiating diagonally, horizontally, or vertically from wall-planters inspires:
- airplant, antvine;
- baby-tears, bleeding-heart;
- clockvine, cornplant, crown-of-thorns;
- dragontail-plant;
- earth-star;
- foxtail-fern;
- grape-ivy;
- jasmine;
- kalanchoe;
- lady-fern;
- passion-flower, polka-dot-plant, purple passion-plant;
- sawblade-plant, spider-plant;
- wandering Jew;
- yucca;
- zz-plant.
Juggling vertical tendencies jumpstarts:
- asparagus-fern;
- Balfour aralia, bamboo-palm;
- Chinese evergreen;
- dragon-tree;
- elephant’s-ear;
- fiddleleaf-fig;
- kangaroo-fern;
- lady-slipper orchid;
- maidenhair-fern;
- peace-lily, Philippine showy-orchid;
- rock-trumpet, rubber-plant;
- sago-palm, spurge;
- thatch-palm, timber-bamboo.
Comments
DerdriuMarrinerJun 13, 2023
Me too, I find that outdoor sentient plants do better in sunshine than indoor sentient plants do with reflected light.
You identify many of your houseplants as shade plants. Me too, that's something that impels me to put a sentient plant indoors even as I look at shade plants outside in my shade garden between the triangle created by the box elder, eastern pine, English yew and silver maple always doing better than their counterparts indoors.
Fortunately, I notice no mealybugs on any plants indoors or outside.
Living with sentient plants always serves as a lifelong learning process for us all.
WriterArtistJun 13, 2023
DerdriuMarrinerSep 7, 2022
Me too, I love the collections and the photos that are included in this article. The hanging-globe and the table-top terraria rank among my favorite products from this educationally entertaining, entertainingly educational book. I refer to it perhaps every week, if not just to review the welcoming images.
WriterArtistSep 7, 2022
DerdriuMarrinerOct 22, 2018
A green, living roof sounds so attractive, friendly, healthy and so very Irish and Scot, like my ancestry too. Wouldn't your green, living, Irish-, Scot-style roof make a great children's book with your redheads skipping through the open-air, sunlit greenery?
katiem2Oct 19, 2018
MiraAug 31, 2018
L'heure d'été sounds like a film I would enjoy :)
DerdriuMarrinerAug 30, 2018
The book mentions wall-held boards for affixing like about three plant-filled mason jars, planters and pots. Some of the wall planters look brick-sized; others like those boards (I'm not thinking of their name right now) that from the profile look like a v because they're like an accordion file for papers; and still others closer to a rectangular container that would fill the sill to a window with three horizontal by four vertical panes.
Sorry not to have included this in the answer below ;-[!
DerdriuMarrinerAug 30, 2018
In another direction, have you seen the film L'heure d'été? I love the scenes about the cumbersome glass vase that, up to the point of inventory, everybody disdains except Éloïse.
MiraAug 29, 2018
Does this book mention planters in a wall-like setting? I've seen this here in Bucharest, and I like the idea, but it's mostly one for the outdoors.