![]() Hmm…įinally, and this is my favorite crazy recommendation–oxalis triangularis! Oh yes, please, if you like to pull dead leaves and flowers off the plant at least every couple of weeks. The variegated benjaminii type to its left hasn’t lost a single leaf–and they are reputed to be very finicky. Since its repotting last week, it has lost 8 leaves. The “extremely rare” triangularis is the plant in the middle–the one in the pot with the fluted edge. In fact, in the above photo, you will see 2 of my many ficus. Not a good recommendation, especially for a “decoration,” unless you find dead leaves decorative. It seems that if I blink the wrong way, mine starts dropping leaves. The one recommended in particular was ficus triangularis, which was described as “extremely rare.” I don’t find it to be “extremely rare,” but I do find it to be at least as finicky as the plain old benjaminii type. Next, far too many ficus plants were recommended as “decorations.” Seriously? As a lover of anything and all things ficus, I can tell you that many are not particularly easy to grow. At least reference the botanical name in parentheses so that they person can acquire the right plant! ![]() Common names too often lead to confusion. Now, I am not such a stuffy person that I think we have to go around only referring to plants by their proper botanical names–but I also think that if I am recommending a plant for a space, I want to make sure that the person buys the right plant. The first is that almost no proper names for plants were used, only common names. ![]() So many things were wrong about the article that I scarcely know where to begin. I know that there are whole blogs devoted to “garden ranting” but you can tell when something has set me off, can’t you? This time it’s an article in a style magazine called something like “Decorating with House Plants.”
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