I love the living room so much. There is snow on the ground outside, lots of it, and we have fires in the fireplace most nights and it’s such a cool combination of tropical rainforest/cabin in the woods/post apocalyptic garden/home of feral nerds.
And all those plants do a good job of obscuring what the cats and dogs have done to the furniture.
That’s lemongrass over on the right, and an alocasia (never sure about alocasia versus colocasia* and I’m not up for looking it up but I think that’s alocasia ‘Polly’. Maybe ‘Sarian’.) Off camera but also in that corner are another random elephant ear (‘Black Magic’ but still small) and variegated society garlic which just started putting on new growth.
Technically I think alocasias tend to be triangle-shaped (think the letter ‘A’ for alocasia) and upright and colocasias are rounder (think ‘C’ shape-ish) and hang downwards but then we have things like a downward hanging A, like polly. I grow ‘polly’ half submerged in a bowl of water I fill weekly, though she drinks it in a single day.
All of the houseplants summer outside although this year I’m reconsidering the pothos because I’m training the vines in the house and unlike the other plants, I don’t think they *loved* being outdoors quite so much. Maybe I’ll move the younger ones out.
