Turn my thumb green.
Mattw and I go out on a Friday date every week. I was thinking today we could look around for a plant to grow together in the apartment. (We don’t even have any fake plants!) I’ve wanted a sago palm for a long time, so I’m not totally without palm trees here in the land of brick buildings. I also love pussywillows, and tulips. But flowers are rather more fragile, and I want something we can keep alive long term, not just seasonally.
But I’m a total plant newb, so I don’t have the slightest idea where to start.
So: Any suggestions for plants relatively easy to care for, apartment-friendly, and safe for cats?
Rivikah
| Friday, April 10, 2009 | 2:54 pmIf you want palm type things, the Areca Palm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dypsis_lutescens is supposed to be safe for cats and reasonably easy to grow.
Also apparently great for improving indoor air quality. I could have more suggestions, but that’s what’s on the top of my head right now.
Brandann
| Sunday, April 12, 2009 | 4:33 amI miss palms too, and would love to grow them. Maybe I might have to try now that we have our own place. Something low maintenance.
Non-palm plants I can’t kill: Spider plants, aloe plants, jade plants. They just keep growing even when I am too sick or too tired to properly love them.
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The Bald Soprano
| Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | 6:51 amI don’t know about cat-safeness (unfortunately cat-less until we find an apartment that allows them), but my husband’s three orchid plants are surprisingly hardy. We don’t get a lot of sunlight and we forget to water them more than about once every other month, and they still bloomed again and again this winter.