Houseplants I Keep Rebuying 🥲
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Some houseplants just aren't made for the long haul.. so here are some houseplants that I don't care if they kick the bucket. Need new frames like me? Click the links below & receive your crazy offer for 24hrs only👇🏽
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I have been a houseplant enthusiast since the 70’s. I have no problem tossing plants that get leggy or buggy. I do propagate and I also give plants to friends when I want to change up my collection. I do my best to keep my plants healthy and beautiful but when they are not I would just rather get rid of them. Why stare at a plant that doesn’t bring me joy.
Love this sentiment!! You are so right.
Absolutely in the ‘your mental health is more important than your plants’ camp! I’ve always said ‘plants are replaceable, you are not’ ❤ look after yourself ❤
😭 thank you again for allowing us a space to be okay with plants dying 💚
Hearing Nora in the background had me checking my baby monitor 😂 My son was born the same week and is making similar noises
That’s hilarious 🤣
Same! I totally thought my kid was talking/crying in her sleep 😂
I was totally expecting to see Fittonia on this list. They keep dying, I keep buying. I have never known why, being such 'vocal' plants, I can't keep them alive.
It's great to hear Nora providing the soundtrack for your video.
Hi Becca! I totally agree with mental health importance rather than struggling and stressing over a plant that you just can't keep healthy.
I also have adjusted my plants I own to being ones that don't need all kinds of help to recreate their natural environment. I live in Tucson, so low humidity is an issue, and having machines all over doesn't make sense. High light plants go in my windows, and lower light ones are pushed back. I definitely have started only having plants that are here because they are thriving and beautiful, and I enjoy caring for them.
Thanks for the video!
I love that both of my favorite plant RUclipsrs (you and Nick Pileggi) came out with new, "controversial" content today. I have a sad aglaonema in my dining room that looks okay, but could stand to get tossed. I've been holding onto it to combine with my other aglaonemas into one large pot, but every time I look at it, I'm ready to toss it!
Do it today 🤞🤞
I promise you won’t think about it once it’s gone!!
Not me with two mangly marantas & an aglaonema silver bay 👀😂 I’ll consider this my “sign” to just give them the boot once and for all
I love the long term flower arrangement concept. I think Rex Begonias are long term flower arrangements. Some people (probably people who have greenhouses) can keep them around but I can't. It's been a few years, but hey, maybe it's time to buy another one. Or a fittonia. Great video.
It’s the parlor palm for me! Going to be buying them as centerpieces now and not feeling bad when they don’t last forever on our table.
honestly succulents haha, i feel like for whatever reason i completely forget about them & they end up dying without me noticing & then a few months later i'll see some that i like & try again
i also rationalize it by buying smaller ones & they really are unique & make fun centerpieces & they 100% last longer than a bouquet!
the best way to keep fittonias alive is in a terrarium ! ive had mine for years, they r thriving, only been watered once or twice
I agree, lemon lime maranta is a MUST! so gorge 😍
I’m a novice, but I find algonema’s very easy. However, Maranta’s I seem to kill them every time. I just bought a varigated maranta, so we will see if I can keep it alive!
I frequently get a poinsettia at Christmas time. Sometimes they last for a year or two and then inevitably croak 🤦♀️😀🇨🇦
This video gave me the permission I've been wanting to toss my adansonii that has been struggling with mealies for, like, a year. It bums me out every time I see it, so in the bin it goes.
I find cane plants (agleonema, diffenbachia, etc) are great to put in the back of the three or four plants group: the front plants don't get entangled in the leaves of the plant in the back and the tuft at the top adds to the vertical visual interest.
I love this video. Yes, they're just plants. If wasn't expensive or hard to find and it's stressing you out, TOSS IT.
They grow these things as crops and MOST people are killing them.
Oh, and my choices for this category are Rex Begonia and Alocasia!
Thank you for making this video!!! 🫶🏻❤︎ I feel like lemon button ferns are my long-term bouquet 🤣❤︎
This video is timely! I just re-bought a variegated Maranta while I was in Chicago last weekend! And my Lemon Lime will probably need replacing soon. I will ALWAYS own a Lemon Lime Maranta (it's a Top 3 favorite plant). Another I'm happy to re-buy is the Purple Passion plant. I just love it so much. Oh. And ferns to mount.
Poinsettias and Christmas Cactus during the holidays are long-term flower arrangements! I don't know how to keep either alive for more than a few months after haha
My 'bouquet' houseplants that I keep buying, but they never last a long time; Pilea 'Moon Valley' I just love the textured leaves, and I can usually baby it along for a couple of years, but they eventually just die. Escargot Begonia, and most 'Rex' begonias - seems like I can keep them going for a couple of years, then a steep decline. The 'herringbone' type marantas, again I can keep them for awhile, then it goes downhill quickly. The 'rabbit tracks' marantas, however, I can keep alive for a very long time. Watermelon peperomias & Pilea pepermoides - they hang around for a year or two and then seem to just collapse. Oh yes, and the stress with Aglaonemas, they never seem happy after the first year or two.
Next greenhouse visit, I'm buying ALLLL the calathea! Haha, probably not, but I'll feel better buying finicky plants with this mindset.
I looved this video, its like you‘re speaking from my heart, exactly what i‘ve thought the last couple of weeks. People buy flower bouquets for a lot more and toss them after a week, so why should we feel so so guilty to toss a plant which you have longer anyway? Its just putting stress on yourself and not worth it 👍🏻 so i‘m all for it girl, thanks for sharing your top 10 tossable plants 😆
Exactly!!!! “Tossable plants” I love that lol
I love your love of the fetonia 💚can’t you just put them in a self watering pot? Love the glasses too!!
I’ve been giving away plants I don’t like anymore on my town’s Buy Nothing group, so other people can try to save my struggling plants.
I view maranta like flower arrangements. Though I am trying them in self watering pots to see if that will be the trick to keeping them happy!
Similar thought but they don't die necessarily - I keep buying Phalaenopsis orchids. Even if it takes 2-3 years to re-bloom, I'm ok with it; I just buy another one while I wait!
Calathea orbifia is mine. I've been able to keep all of yours alive in self-watering pots.
I don’t buy ferns very often, but whenever I do, I expect them to go downhill pretty quickly 🫠
Another one for me is definitely watermelon peperomia. I feel like they look nice initially and slowly degenerate 😅
Thank you for posting this! I have been so much happier and enjoying my plant collection since I took on that thought process. (don't like the plant? bug magnet? out it goes)
Calathea Dottie, maiden hair fern, asparagus setaceus fern. I haven’t had to repurchase my maiden hair yet, but I totally would
I just gave up on my aglaonema golden madonna! It was about 5 years old and starting to look pretty sad! Thanks for explaining the tall growth habit, now I don’t feel so bad about giving it up 😂
Thank-you for permission to bin a plant that has seen better days. I would add tradescantia to the list. They are the easiest to chop and prop when they get leggy, if you have the mind to do so. 😊
I love this attitude and I’ve adopted it because I have had a few of these ones and THEY ALWAYS DIE. Also my alocasias hate life too and die. My Alocasia is currently dying and I told my husband that you gave a great way to look at it and now he’s on board too. 💙
Same with lemon lime Maranta. Love that plant and will rebuy and rebuy. I buy about one, maybe two, a year and toss when it gets sad looking. I do prop my Aglaonema though, openly because they are easy . Pop the top cutting in a vase for a few months then pot up right into its old pot with old roots that now have shoots coming up. I don’t mind tossing one I don’t love. I’m heartless. Lol
I’m heartless…hahaha!!! I’m so about that too! I actually talk to the plant as it’s going in the trash: “byeeee, you can’t keep up you gotta go!”
string of pearls and for me variegated Maranta
Interestingly, I can keep maranta alive but not monstera. 😅 But YES to throwing out plants that are on the struggle bus that you don't have the time + energy to save. Especially if they have pests. I learned the hard way that if I'm not on top of pest eradication, they will spread to other plants and the originally infested plant will die anyway, so sacrificing one or two to save the rest is almost always better unless you can commit to a super robust pest control routine.
Totally agree!! Just tossed a nerve plant and watermelon peperomia. No joy...you gotta go!
Poinsettia never last so long after the holidays season.
I don't even try to grow Fittonia in room conditioning. I just stuck her in a mini terrarium and she grows like a weed.
I feel comforted that you also struggle with stromanthes, cos yeah they're so beautiful but they're not worth the headache at all. Same with most calatheas for me, they're too fussy and get crispy or the leaves dont stay up.
Im the same with Fittonias! Pretty while they last. Ive also lost some marantas.
Woah! You had an entire baby since the last time I watched the channel. Congratulations! Around here a decent bouquet is fifty dollars and up so a few years ago I decided that I could just buy an orchid in spike instead. However, can't get cymbidiums to rebloom and they are my favourite so I've slowed that down. But I think it's a healthy way to think about plants! No point torturing yourself and the plant if it just wants to have a quick death.
Thank you for this video. I recently gave myself permission to get rid of an ugly snake plant....
I have the same issue where whenever I start to struggle with my mental health my plants suffer and I've killed multiple Fittonia in the past, since I put mine in a terrarium however I can neglect it for a couple months and it's perfectly fine, would recommend trying :)
I feel the exact same way about the Maranta! They usually live for about 6 months in my care and then I’ll have to rebuy them 😂
Trio star.....I tossed! Real diva she was!
I LOVE that vest!! And of course the video 😀
I had 2 fittonias for about 4 years. They won't let you forget to water them, such drama queens but very forgiving if you see their fainting spell quick enough. They are gorgeous.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the watermelon peperomia! I always have to rebuy her
Your mental health is definitely more important than a plant but I have got a plant in my kitchen window I just don’t like and a string of pearls I keep hoping I can rehab as I love it
It’s ferns for me! I love them but they don’t love me. I find myself drawn to all kinds of different ferns and I have been viewing them in this way. I so enjoy them while I have them but am happy to toss them once they’re brown and crispy. Thanks for naming and normalizing this!
im waiting till spring to get a lipstick plant. I got one last year and ABSOLUTLY FELL IN LOVE! it didnt last long but im hopeful to keep it alive for longer! they make me so happy.
i also LOVE rubber tree plants but seem to not be able to keep them alive??? dont kno why.
I've done pretty well with a little variegated ficus triangularis, so I thought I'd try a tineke. Nope lol. We're down to one sad leaf.
I really ❤my variegated schefflera but I’m wondering if it’s affecting my mental health…it has soft scale and I refuse to give up and so I find myself checking it and picking off the tiny beige critters spraying the foliage with soapy alcohol. It’s isolated from my other plants and I’m trying to hold off until I can place it outside and rethink it’s destiny next fall. If it gets the boot I won’t replace it. I also have another branch/small plant in soil and one in water 😅 I’ve had fittonia and it was quite dramatic and refused to die so I donated that one to our garden club sale in an arrangement it was a pink one….I’d purchase it again but white next time. Love your glasses 👍
Hi becca you’re really cute and your content is really nice😊
Mine is succulents. I'm not very good with them long term.
I’m so proud of myself I have 2 marantas and they look so beautiful I’ve propagated and it’s coming along ok. I keep them in a sunny window and I also live in CA. I’m always cooking so I feel like it helps with the humidity. I have killed so many plants and I try not to rebuy
As soon as I saw the title I hoped you would have fittonia on your list! I have had several and they all bit the dust. It was the first plant I bought that I had to toss and I felt so guilty. They are so pretty and I kept trying but always had the same issue. Now I feel better knowing it is not just me so thank you
loved this!
Mine is a pothos global green. I’m an avid pothos collector and all my other ones do excellently! But for some reason that variety always dies on me
I’m looking at my crunchy Norfolk Island Pine I got at Home Depot for $9 before Christmas. This is one I replace yearly as well as my cyclamen!
I'd throw Calatheas in the list too, but honestly, I'm done with them - definitely not rebuying! I used to adore my Calatheas, especially this gorgeous big medallion one. I did all the things - distilled water, keeping the humidity at 60-70%, regularly cleaning the leaves, checking for spider mites - you name it. But come winter, the leaves just curled up, turned brown, and dried out. Turned into an ugly plant real quick.
I get it might be a hot take because people love saving plants from the death shelf in stores, but I don't have room for ugly plants. I give them my all, expecting them to thrive, not look like a sad mess in a big pot with a couple of brown sticks. I'd never bring something barely alive home, especially knowing these kinds of plants are vulnerable to pests and attract them.
On a brighter note, my Maranta Lemon Lime is hanging in there, even as winter wraps up. I've had her about a year now, and those long vines in the wall planter look awesome. Fingers crossed she keeps it up!
I'm also kinda over philodendrons. I'm tired of the constant cycle - you give it a pole, it regrows immediately without the leaves getting any bigger or leaves will get so big that I don't have the space for it 🤣😂it is not for me.
I'm all about plants that stick around and don't turn into an eyesore. Maybe that's why I love hoyas so much! Those are plants for life :)
Does Nora sleep through the night? She seems like a Good Baby just gooing away😊AND ALL THAT HAIR!
I keep trying ivy and ferns and china dolls😬
Actually one of my first plants I bought was a monstera delicioso and I didn’t know it was already root bound so a year later when repotting it had root rot and I had to cut it up. Still trying to root it and it keeps getting pests. Uggghhh
what is the philodendron on the shelf in the background? We need an update on which plants you own atm :D
I have the worst time with agleonema and I don't know why but I think I might just go ahead and trash the struggling props I've been hanging onto for literal years.
Omg yes my fittonias do SO much better in terrariums!!! They love high humidity ❤
What is that fuzzy cactus on your wicker shelf? It's been bugging the heck out of my for the past few videos!
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I try every plant two or three times. If I can’t keep it alive three times I won’t buy it again. I rather have more plants that can deal with being forgotten about for a while.
I do this with most of my plants but I can't help still buying and trying to get calatheas to live. Only a year and then they all get ugly and I have no idea why. Same care all year why always at that year mark 😅😅
Every time I see a Calathea in a shop I’m telling myself " NO! You know what always happens."
How do you water that cactus behind you? Do you move it?
I generally do a lot of research before I go out and buy a new plant. My two favorite mantras are: (1) If the plant died in my care I do not buy it again and (2) I only buy another to replace the last one because of space. When I had my first child many moons ago, I only had 10 plants and that was enough so I could tend to them comfortably and not be stressed out. The baby was a full-time job and the plants were just a little fun of joy. Now that I'm retired and have more time to invest in my hobby I have about 30 plants that I love and care for which brings a smile to my face daily. I don't want anymore plants because then it would be a chore for me to keep them all happy. I do not like real flowers because they just die after a week and that's wasteful to me. I do travel a bit to see grandchildren so I only have common low maintenance hardy plants so when I'm away my mind is at ease. I, too have plants for years and they give me great pleasure!
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I don't buy plants that I don't think I can keep alive. I like seeing them grow. If that isn't working I put them outside infront of my house ( in the Spring time) for free. Someone always takes them. I do have a baby anthurium which I paid good money for, now in a terrarium, that looks like it is going to be a goner. It must have been a dud.
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I'd say string of pearls is one for me, if I see it I think aw pretty but actually pass bc it always fs up
Yes, I'm the same way......once is plenty...I learned a lesson to pass it up for sure!
I noticed there are two types of fittonia I see in the big box stores. Small leaf and big leaf. Is one just younger or are they different types of fittonia?
I believe they’re different but not entirely sure.. maybe someone else here can weigh in. 🤔
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Okay okay okay, yes your mental health is more important than the plant. COMPOST IT
Ok, zooming out of this question as merely a personal choice: yeah the plant can be composted and does not necessarily go to the landfill but the industry is not carbon neutral nor environmentaly friendly. The energy used for greenhouses, fertilizer, pesticides and peat all take a toll and the plant growing industry is not very environmentaly friendly. Peat bogs are extremely important for carbon capture and are dissapearing to be used in soil and fertilizer for commercial growers. Plants are grown in third world countries for very cheap with bad working conditions and no pesticide regulation, the industry there takes a toll on the local economy and environment, not to talk about the wasted water.
I myself have tossed plants and agree that mental health is more important than some 10$ plant. But if a plant just is not happy in your home either put it in a selfwatering pot, give up or maybe realize that there is just too many plants in your house if you cant take care of everybody. I feel like the rampant consumerism and "plant addiction" gets minimized and normalized as something wholesome and quirky, but I honestly see no difference between that and the fast fashion sheIn tiktok girlies. I get it, I have been there with the too many plants and I have tossed many a plant. I totally agree that it is sometimes just not worth it to try and save it. But tossing a plant because it looks ugly and you want a new one, with the goal of buying it again? I am not condemming this this is just a tangent on the industry and buyers as a whole, I just whish there would be more of a conversation about mindful and slow consumption in the plant world.
Totally agreed. You are brave to speak up
Thank you for this comment. I also agree that tossing a plant that doesn't work for you is more than valid but thinking of them as "flower arrangements" is not sustainable and I'm shocked so many people here agree with that point 😢
String of damn turtles!!! 🤦♀️
Nope don't bother at all to prop a Agleo. because they NEVER EVER NEVER are the come back kid unless you live in tropical country where they just thrive. If they come back they come back weird and will never be what they once were or better just start over 100% agree.
If selling a plant seems like to much effort but you can’t bring yourself to throw it out, a nice in between option can be to post it on something like gumtree for free and put in the description that this plant needs some extra love. In my experience you usually find someone who has the mental space to give the plant a better home within like a week without too much of a hassle, but it might depend on the area you live in as well.
That’s a great idea! 😊
Just a reminder that giving an "ugly" looking plant to a friend, a shop near you, heck even a nursery is a nice alternative to just throwing it out... Try and spread the love and remember to plant recycle your plants not put it in waste
I live in Florida and all my plants that start looking ugly or dying get put outside to give them one last shot. And 75% of the time they come back and look beautiful and then they get to live outside where I care for them but I don't get as stressed out about them not doing as well.😂
@@dianasanders1733 I feel as though most if not all plants do so so much better outdoors in Florida or warm climates like where you are at. Us, in northern climates would like them enjoy our stuffy house and not quite appropriate lighting instead and some just can't acclimatize to it so they rebel and that's when they get pests because they just aren't happy anymore :(
Why not throw it away? Cus you can give it away to someone who might save it.