Follow

I planted a small cutting from my prayer plant and gave it to my MIL last summer. She sent me this picture yesterday. ❤️

@NorCalCherylLyn
The original plant I've had for over 20 years. It has been very hardy.

@TomeReader Whatever she's doing, it's working. Kudos. (Good-looking plant!)

@TomeReader

So lovely.
I wish I could keep plants alive.

(My latest challenge is that my apartment gets *very* little natural light.)

@tyghebright
Honestly, the prayer plant is the only plant I've kept alive. I had a zebra plant that never thrived and finally died when my husband accidentally tipped it over during the move.

I'd love to try more, but I now have a cat who loves to jump and eat plants.

@TomeReader

That's part of the problem here, too. I have lovely wide windowsills I could put plants in, where they'd get indirect sun most of the day... but cats.

I *have* done well with a large rubber plant, but they need more sun than I currently have.

@tyghebright @TomeReader Prayer plants, and most plants in the Maranta/Calathea family will do well in low light. My prayer plant lived in my bedroom with no real sunlight, just lamp light and it's still beautiful. And they're pet safe. There are a few others like Monstera and the Zz plant that like low light, but I can't say how safe they are for pets.

@Halcyon

I might give one a try.
I didn't even realize how little light I had until a couple of plants died. I'm in a ground floor apartment that faces a courtyard, and has walkways above that create shade. So no direct light at all.

But if I can get a couple of small plants growing, I'd love it.

@TomeReader

Sign in to participate in the conversation

CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.